July 1, 1978 by •
boredom,
brain,
character,
darkness,
eternities,
evil,
expansion,
gifts,
God,
Holy Ghost,
information,
intellect,
intelligence,
Joseph Smith,
knowledge,
probation,
revelation(s),
riches,
Satan,
sin,
speculating,
testing,
The LORD,
the mind,
the Spirit,
the Universe,
thinking,
trust,
truth,
under-performance,
wisdom,
world(s),
zeal
Academic Awareness lecture, June 26, 1975. Original manuscript in mimeographed form. Reprinted in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 11:2 (Summer 1978): 101-112; in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Religious Studies Center, 1978): 261-277; in Readings for Intensive Writers, compiled by Susan T. Laing (Provo: Honors Intensive Writing, 1977) 185-194; and in CWHN …
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March 11, 1976 by •
accumulation,
Brigham Young,
character,
computers,
customs and fashions,
degree,
Dialogue,
discipline,
economy,
education,
eternal progression,
eternity,
experience,
false doctrine,
false ideas,
fashion(s),
glory of God,
god of this world,
Holy Spirit,
honest heart,
ignorance,
intelligence,
Joseph Smith,
kingdom(s),
kitsch,
knowledge,
ladder,
learning,
light,
mediocre,
message,
moral(s) quality,
perishable objects,
practical knowledge,
principles,
real work,
revelation(s),
rhetoric,
riches,
security,
sensibility,
Shakespeare,
success,
talents,
taste,
teaching,
the Gospel,
the mind,
the Spirit,
truth,
vision,
wisdom,
work
Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo: BYU Press, 1976): 2-20. A talk given on March 11, 1976 at the Joseph Smith Auditorium at Brigham Young University; CWHN 13: 346-379. Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.
June 9, 1967 by •
computers,
education,
glory,
health,
intelligence,
knowledge,
learning,
mechanism,
power(s),
principles of improvement,
truth,
weaknesses,
wisdom
15 pp., typescript of an addressed delivered on June 9, 1967. For a more refined version of Nibley’s treatment of Brigham Young’s views on education, see his “Educating the Saints,” in CWHN 13:306-345. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found …
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February 18, 1966 by •
ancient world,
Apollodorus,
Athens,
Augustus Caesar,
blackmail,
Christianity,
disciples,
education,
Egypt,
Greeks,
idleness,
imposing appendix,
John Chrysostom,
Palaemon,
pseudo-wisemen,
rhetoric,
Rome,
Seven Sages,
Socrates,
Sophists,
Symmachus,
teachers,
the University of Athens,
tyrant(s),
underachievement,
upper-class,
wisdom
BYU Studies 9:4 (Summer 1969): 440-452; CWHN 10: 287-302. Nibley traces some interesting parallels in educational matters and especially in campus unrest in the decade after 1960 with the medieval world. — Midgley