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Education is not what it once was. The centers of learning that gave rise to the university were, from their beginnings, centers of intellectual and spiritual formation—places where to learn something true about the world was simultaneously to become someone different. That unity has dissolved. Today the university functions largely as a machine for the production, certification, and distribution of information, while spiritual transformation has been exiled to the private sphere—anywhere but the classroom, where it is presumed to have no business. I have long held that the divorce between theology and spirituality was a mistake. I have come to realize that education on the whole and spiritual transformation belong together; knowing, in any deep sense, is a transformation of...