Editing Alvin Plantinga (section)

=== Education ===
As an adolescent, Alvin Plantinga's family moved from Michigan to North Dakota for his father's job at [[Jamestown College]]. At his father's advice, Alvin skipped his last year of high school to enroll at Jamestown College in 1949 at 16.<ref>"Self-profile", pp. 7–8.</ref><ref name="Baker2007profile">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34FKFPB0TtkC |title=Alvin Plantinga |last=Deane-Peter Baker |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-521-85531-0 |pages=2–8 |access-date=16 December 2010}}</ref> That year, his father accepted a teaching job at [[Calvin University]] which began in January 1950. Alvin Plantinga moved to Grand Rapids with his family and attended Calvin University for a semester. He applied to [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and was awarded a scholarship.<ref>"Self-profile", p. 8.</ref>

In the fall of 1950, Plantinga transferred to Harvard, where he spent two semesters. In 1951, during Harvard's spring recess, Plantinga attended a few philosophy classes at Calvin University and was so impressed with Calvin philosophy professor [[William Harry Jellema]] that he returned in 1951 to study philosophy under him.<ref>"Self-profile", pp. 9–16.</ref> In 1954, Plantinga began his graduate studies at the [[University of Michigan]] where he studied under [[William Alston]], [[William Frankena]], and Richard Cartwright, among others.<ref>"Self-profile", p. 16.</ref> A year later, in 1955, he transferred to [[Yale University]] where he received his PhD in 1958.<ref>"Self-profile", pp. 21–22.</ref>