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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
BYU needs to decide what its mission is. Perhaps it is to be a funnel for LDS to kids to excel elsewhere. That's what it is now.
Of course my opinion is that the church should divest itself of BYU. I don't know why it should be subsidizing secular education for the wealthiest Mormons on the planet.
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I agree with you Mike. I think one of the church's primary functions should be education, but not secular education. Too many inherent conflicts. Not the least of which is the poor of the church subsidizing the education of the elite of the church.
Imagine a world where the church pours the money currently going to BYU into institutes and all of those bright LDS kids go to a university near where they grew up, building the church there. There ought to be an institute at every major university. They will never put me in charge, but if they did one of my first acts would be to pull the trigger on that idea.