Sinclair Ferguson

And I remember first lecture in the English Lit class at university, a very distinguished Shakespeare expert is the professor.

I had been studying one of Shakespeare's plays for six months in my last year in high school.

I learned more about that play in this man's first lecture than I'd learned in all the six months.

Suddenly, I'm free from all that.

These people, my teachers, they didn't really know anything.

But these people...

And I live in a day when they put money in your pocket to go to university.

I have more money than I've ever had in my life.

Of all these hours, I have to go to half a dozen lectures, sit a few exams, write the occasional paper.

I can read my Bible.

I can read other books.

I can go and play golf.

Boy, this is really living.

This is really living.

And these long vacations, I guess there are still exams at the end.

And in the Scottish system, there really were exams at the end.

And in a sense, since the last exams you sat were the only ones that would matter for the rest of your life, there was a fair amount of pressure.

And then I become a minister of the gospel and there are no more exams, except I realized there's at least an exam every Sunday.

But this is freedom for me.

And so you see, at each stage of my life, I was having the time of my life.