We hear a great deal about academic freedom. Usually this is taken to mean either the right to explore any subject and be free from censure or the right of any qualified student to study at public institutions regardless of race or personal associations. The academic community regards these freedoms highly. But there is another kind of freedom in the academic world which, though basic, is often neglected by many of our prominent educators and gifted students. This is the release from a sense of mortal limitation which is available to all of us through consciously and continually seeing our learning activity, or intelligence, in the light of its God-established nature—reflection.
The ever-clearer sense of the basic spiritual facts, as taught in Christian Science, can so permeate the academic experience as to transform it altogether into an activity of much greater significance, progress, and benefit to all. How does this transformation occur? By one's approaching every aspect of academic life from the understanding that since God is infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient good and since man is His image and likeness, wholly spiritual, one can demonstrate all the capacities conferred on man through reflection.
The Christian Science student is not confused or intimidated by the fact that a curriculum may contain courses based upon and expressing a great variety of opinions about the nature of God, man, and reality. He knows that in working out his own salvation, he will be confronted with many theories at variance with the true consciousness he is endeavoring to express.
