First Presidency counselor Hugh B. Brown tells BYU student body, "Preserve, then, the freedom of your mind in education and in religion, and be unafraid to express your thoughts and to insist upon your right to examine every proposition. We are not so much concerned with whether your thoughts are orthodox as we are that you shall have thoughts."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
wrong year. should be 1969:
ReplyDelete"One of the most important things in the world is freedom of the mind; from this all other freedoms spring. Such freedom is necessarily dangerous, for one cannot think right without running the risk of thinking wrong, but generally more thinking is the antidote for the evils that spring from wrong thinking. More thinking is required, and we call upon you students to exercise your God-given right to think through on every proposition that is submitted to you and be unafraid to express your opinions, with proper respect for those to whom you talk and proper acknowledgement of your own shortcomings.
You young people live in an age when freedom of the mind is
suppressed over much of the world. We must preserve it in the Church and in America and resist all efforts of earnest men to suppress it, for when it is suppressed, we might lose the liberties vouchsafed in the Constitution of the United States.
PRESERVE, THEN, THE FREEDOM OF YOUR MIND IN EDUCATION AND IN RELIGION, AND BE UNAFRAID TO EXPRESS YOUR THOUGHTS AND TO INSIST UPON YOUR RIGHT TO EXAMINE EVERY PROPOSITION. WE ARE NOT SO MUCH CONCERNED WITH WHETHER YOUR THOUGHTS ARE ORTHODOX AS WE ARE THAT YOU SHALL HAVE THOUGHTS."
President Hugh B. Brown,
From "An Eternal Quest—Freedom of the Mind," delivered at BYU, 13 May 1969. [published in DIALOGUE, Vol.5, Num.2, (Summer 1970), p.135].
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hugh-b-brown_eternal-quest/
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