Hello, this is pastor gary from first baptist church of laplata. I skipped kindergarten, and I was a good student throughout my 24-year educational journey, but I was nothing like 12 year old Mike Wimmer from North Carolina who will graduate from college this May 21 and from high school a week later on May 28. Wimmer took advantage of the extra time during COVID to take extra classes completing four years of schooling in one year. He will have an Associate’s degree as he makes his high school valedictorian speech! He insists that he has not given up his childhood as he still finds time to play basketball and build Lego sets. His own words are, “…I’m having the time of my life.” We applaud Mike’s remarkable educational accomplishments, but Solomon, the world’s wisest man, had this to say about too much education in Ecclesiastes 1:18, “…he that increaesth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” Solomon was not anti-education, but he knew too much education can make a person practically useless; academics may know a lot but don’t know how to do anything. I’m reminded of the uncle who hired his college graduate nephew to work at his business. The nephew showed up and said, “Where do I start?” The uncle said, “Start by sweeping the sidewalk out front.” The nephew replied, “Do you realize I’m a college graduate?” To which his uncle replied, “Oh, I forgot. I’ll show you how to do it.” Not only that, but too much of the wrong education is dangerous. Students who seek prestigious higher education at well-known liberal schools are wasting their time, money, and effort. Paraphrasing President Ronald Reagan, “It’s not that liberals don’t know anything; it’s just that so much of what they know is wrong.”
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