I dare say! And the essence of education, IMHO, is to teach students to think, and in the process, present to them the facts, so far as they are known, not to teach them WHAT to think or try to model beliefs and opinion in order to infiltrate their minds with the beliefs and opinions of the professor or the school.

It has been a sad affair in my geology class thus far.  Every time the professor speaks and tries to expound on a point by, say, horrifically quoting, Scrooge, every person in the class chuckles under their breath.  The professor has interesting things to say, yet he is unaware of his environment.  I think he is painfully amusing, but I sometimes think about his mind.  Perhaps it is reliant too much on the factual and not enough on the wonderful?

Our own Mr.Rena of mrrena.com added the following in his latest newsletter which I think is important:

"The author has on several occasions expressed to me that he does not believe that faith and reason are compatible and I think that is probably true, at least to the degree that reason alone will never supply us proof that God exists. For that matter, I do not believe that reason can ever tell us much of anything without having some underlying assumptions we plug in to our logical equations, just as one fills out the variables in an algebraic expression with numbers. As we have spoken of before concerning epistemology, one of the haunting questions for me is “What is truth?” followed closely by “How do we know we know it?” I am inclined to think that in order to hold any beliefs at all, faith is required: we at least have to accept some underlying assumption that cannot itself be proven." http://www.mrrena.com/handbasket.shtml

You need to watch out for that mrrena guy. I hear he's bad news. :(