Many find their security and comfort in a church. Others find it at a University, which is like a church in many ways.
The lecturers are the priests, and the gospel is the educational tradition that has been passed down through the centuries. And just as religion has lost all semblance to truth through the passage of time, so has our education system become completely without a basis in truth and reason.
Our system of education is more honestly called "socio-engineering". It manufactures a society by forcing traditional values and patterns of thinking onto us, rather than encouraging us to think for ourselves. Thus, a University is the same as a church in that it is a place for self-gratification, rather than for rationality and thinking. It is a place for illusions.