# What is College Really for? Notre Dame's Experiment in Holistic Education, with Bill Mattison

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Podcast: [Church Life Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-life-today-865164)
Published: 2025-10-06T13:00:00+00:00
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What if a university included among its common learning goals for its students, cultivating the practice of disciplined attention and becoming active participants in your holistic formation? That would mean, I suppose, that such a university would be interested and invested in not just what their graduates could do or produce, but also in who they become. Such an education would value the education of the heart alongside and integrated with the education of the mind. This would go a long way ...

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