[Exclusive Brethren elder Daniel Hales explains why their kids are not allowed to go to university.]

"Universities were once Ivy League bastions of conservative Christianity. Then came Flower Power and professors advocating drugs, and so on. They became the vanguard for re-engineering society."

"I was enrolled myself once," said the 58-year-old father of five. "I was going to study law or medicine. Then I thought it all through, and I realised it would draw me away from my Christian faith and my family."

"We feel our children would find their faith being challenged. The first thing they learn at university is to question everything. We are not afraid of them but we don't see why our children should be subject to that."

"We're not goody-goodies. I have tried cigarettes, and I have seen movies in my wayward youth."