Gordon B. Hinckley. "What Shall You Teach?" Address to the Brigham Young University Faculty and Staff, September 17, 1963.
In a few days you will face these students, the thousands upon thousands who will gather here from the distant places. I have met some of them recently--a shy girl from Nevada whose coming here represents the fulfillment of the hope of her life and the dream of her parents; a disillusioned girl from California, a little tarnished in her standards, whose presence on this campus is an answer to the pleadings, the anxious, tearful pleadings of her mother; a young man also from California, one of a handful chosen from hundreds of thousands of bright high school seniors, winner of a prized scholarship that might have taken him to any university in America, but who has come to B.Y.U. to refine his talents and increase his knowledge; a boy from the Orient, small and frail and frightened. All of his earnings, all of the hoarded savings of his parents have been gathered to send him here that you might teach him. I could go on at length concerning these young men and women who are coming to you--the spoiled son from the wealthy home; the occasional lad who is sent to be reformed; the eager, bright young men and women who have been out in the world as missionaries.
They have come to be taught. What will you teach them? (p. 2)
I give you these great words of Paul to Timothy: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord."
I wish every member of this institution would print that and put it on his mirror where he would see it every morning as he begins his day. "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord." (p. 8)