Yes

by groundhog91

Created on: September 22, 2011

Proverbs 3:4-8 …”So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones”...

There is more to education than what most experts of today’s society are making of it, and it has now become evident, more than ever, that this subject needs to be re-evaluated for the sake of those that are learning.

Let’s suppose that a student knows History very well, but allows the failures of this History to repeat itself, has that History student really learned anything worthwhile? Are the classrooms filled with students that are only being educated in things that serve no purpose save to give the Teachers a commendation? What is the purpose of education if the results aren’t for the benefit of those being educated? Is wisdom acquired through education, or is education acquired through wisdom? If it is through wisdom that education is acquired, the question stands, whose wisdom?

Knowing simple math and basic economics is a good thing as long as it is applied to understanding important doctrines Jesus taught us in the Bible. In Matthew 25:27 Jesus says …” Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury”... There is a lot more to this statement that meets the eye, but for practical matters in basic economics, we see that money well invested brings profits, and money poorly invested is nothing more than sloppy and lazy investing.

The value of wisdom has a two-fold return when it comes to benefits received by those that are educated in them, and this is where we need to evaluate as to whether or not some things should not even be taught at all, while other things simply cannot be taught outside of wisdom.

Why does the Bible emphasize that we trust the Lord with all our hearts? Why can’t we just lean on our own understanding? We can understand the orbits of planets, but how can anything be hung on nothing outside the power of the Lord. We can appreciate the wind blowing the leaves in the trees, but who but God can even know the circuits of the winds. A lot of students appreciate good poetry, but who but God can speak to the soul in doctrines of wisdom outside the Book of Psalms? Isn’t that the purpose of giving us this literature in the first place?

If I am determined to cut a tree down, and I proceed to attempt this feat with a butter knife, while all along I have a chainsaw in the garage, I not only would look foolish to my neighbor, but I would also look foolish in the eyes of God as well. Wisdom says to use the best tool for the job in hand, and when it comes to educating our future generations, if they are learning the understanding of so called “experts” without having what the Lord has already said to compare it to, then we are condemning those students to a world of mass confusion.

Is the world round, or does it just appear that way? The Lord says it is round, the expert says that it just appears that way. Wisdom knows what opinion to hang on to, but lazy and foolish minds just accept what is being taught, and this can in no way be healthy. We have been given this literature (i.e. 66 Books to be exact) for the sake of acquiring wisdom, and that enables us to expand our education on the things that really matter, such as the Lord leading us in that path of education.

Wisdom is the ocean from which all the paths of education flow in and out. The Chinese, for instance, are a hard working people that have farmed their lands into desserts! If they had the wisdom of the Lord, they would know that the earth should be rested every seven years from whatever crop they are growing on that land. Our past forefathers had to learn this same simple lesson the hard way after the dust bowls in the west.A lot of hard work without wisdom is not only a bad idea, but a dangerous one as well.

We have been given a lot of wonderful things in creation, but God is not so cruel as to put us in His creation without an instruction manual. Those that want to be wise in their own eyes can’t see the difference between humans and animals. They say it is all right to have sex with them if one desires, but wisdom calls this sodomy, which is evil in the sight of the Lord. Those that fear Him will not stray from the instructions given to us by the One that made it all, and if this departs from the mindsets of those who are being taught, according to the Scriptures, this is not only unhealthy, but fatal as well.

If there is a subject that is being taught in our schools that cannot be backed up by the Creators’ instruction manual, then that subject should not even be taught at all, because it is nothing more than a false science. We do have our share of them, especially today in time, and to re-evaluate them, we need to compare what works and what doesn’t. Examples are so easy to come up with, but to save time let’s just compare creation with evolution; which one works? Let’s compare solar scorching with global warming, which one should we prepare for? Let’s compare Democracy to Dictatorship, which way is the wisest way to go? The Bible tells us all of these answers, it just takes a lot of effort to find them, but the lazy and slothful students will not turn one page to find them.

Fortunately for all of us though, not every student will fall under this category. Yes! The wisdom found in our Bible is the source from which all real science and matters of this creation flow, and is not only relevant, but is crucial to the benefit of all students being educated today.

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