"President Kim B. Clark was once asked in a Home Evening meeting what students could do to help the university progress. He answered with no hesitation that students' biggest contribution to BYU-I would be their preparation for class. He said every student, upon entering the classroom, should have enough preparation to teach the lesson that day."
Scroll, August 8, 2006
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"I have known persons who began their academic studies with great momentum but, as time went by, did not continue to invest the necessary time in their studies. They supposed they had developed such great faith that if they simply did their Church work the lord would bless them to achieve their academic objectives. In this way, the supposed strength of their faith became the cause of their academic downfall. We might say to them as the Lord said to Oliver Cowdery when he failed in his efforts to translate:
'It is because that you did not continue as you commenced...
'You have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me...
'You must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right" (D&C 9:5,7-8)"
"...I remember the concerns President Harold B. Lee expressed to me when I was president of BYU. Shortly before the Provo Temple was dedicated, he told me of his concern that the accessibility of the temple would cause some BYU students to attend the temple so often that they would neglect their studies. He urged me to work with the BYU stake presidents to make sure the students understood that even something as sacred and important as temple service needed to be done in wisdom and order so that students would not neglect the studies that should be the major focus of their time during their student years."
Both quotes from Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, October 1994, 11.
