Be Careful What You Learn

*Posexclusadvice: only really useful at Christian/religious schools*

Just because someone is a professor does not mean that they are right about everything.  Many Christian schools integrate faith into all of the subjects which is great if your professors believe in the same doctrine that you do.  I have a history class that studies Western culture from the perspective of the development of Christianity (it was required).  For this class, we are reading a book that discusses in detail the idea that the universe is supposedly populated by a host of spiritual beings that are engaged in a divine struggle with God and that is why other religions exist.  Yeah.  This guy is using the same scriptures that I memorized in Sunday school to try to prove that other "gods" exist.  A bunch of people in my class just accepted this opinion as fact without any additional research or contemplation.

The moral of the story is know what you believe.  It is natural for your faith to evolve as you grow up but you can't accept every idea at face value.  Professors will actually respect you more if you debate and defend your own principles (assuming that your professors are more like Señor Matthews than Mr. Matthews (if you get a Mr. Matthews, just drop the class - save yourself)).  Don't be one of those people who decides that ducks can give birth to ostriches just because your professor shows you a picture of a duck laying a textbook sized egg.  Those are the people that get laughed at later on by talking about the extraordinary growth rate of duck fetuses.