What if education, including higher education, is not primarily about the absorption of ideas and information, but about the formation of hearts and desires?

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but what we love?

...how we think about distinctly Christian education would not be primarily a matter of sorting out which Christian ideas to drop into eager and willing mind-receptacles; rather, it would become a matter of thinking about how a Christian education shapes us, forms us, molds us to be a certain kind of people whose hearts and passions and desires are aimed at the kingdom of God.

--above quoted from James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom