You can still learn a lot–even if they didn’t intend to teach it.
For any number of reasons, a Christian can wind up taking classes at a secular college and have to sit there listening to lies and errors.
Andrea Schwartz, in this 2009 magazine article, addressed this problem, so often faced by homeschooled Christian students.
https://chalcedon.edu/blog/learning-from-liars
You can accomplish a lot just by changing your perspective, says Andrea: “view these classes as comparative religion, not science.” In other words, you don’t have to swallow it, but you can find ways to use it. Some of those ways are described in this article–by Christian students who prospered at secular universities without having to compromise their beliefs.
Y’know something? This is mighty handy stuff to know!
The only thing one has to know in these situations is whether or not the “teacher” is true or false. You can learn either way and either way is better than ignorance in which you learn nothing.
I’ve had good teachers with whom I disagreed about important things. Some teachers actually enjoy that. Then again, here I am talking about college as it was in 1970…
R.J. Rushdoony would study his intellectual opponents to the point he knew more about what they believed than they did. Taking every thought to Christ is a lot of work. Didn’t the Bible teach us to love God with all our mind?