Why should I learn this if it will never help me in life?
Rev. Jonathan Mahtani addresses the common student complaint that academic material lacks practical life application by presenting seven biblical and philosophical reasons why this question reflects foolish thinking. Drawing on Ecclesiastes 10:12-15, Mahtani argues that students lack the ability to predict the future usefulness of knowledge and exhorts them toward wisdom and proper respect for education within a Christian worldview.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. Ecclesiastes 10:12-15 As the warm summer season quickly ends and the first semester of...
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