Educated or Not?

Do you consider yourself to be well educated or not? I am not asking if you have a PhD (many people with a PhD are actually not very smart!), but rather whether you are educated; they are not the same thing. I know a number of people who proudly reference their numerous degrees in higher education, and have found that a large percentage of them are "educated" in errors. They are therefore not able to do much in the way of serious critical or logical thinking. Again, this depends on your definition.

I have also met people who did not have more than a high school degree and found them to quite wise and prudent; not just in the mundane things that anyone can learn, but in genuine intelligence. This should make it clear that "education" in America (and likely in the rest of the world) is not doing much to educate. If my experience of schools and education is anything of a proper sampling, then a large percentage of schools (especially colleges and universities) are doing more to "indoctrinate" with modernism and materialism, than to accomplish any kind of genuine education.

So ask yourself the question: are you well educated? Yet, please do not answer it according the world's standards, but rather according to God's standards. As St. Paul said, "God shames the wise men of this age" and He does it because He is showing to all the world that He is wiser than the world's most wise. Relearn what it means to be "educated" and do not fall for the world's definition. If you can accomplish this great task, then you will not be led astray be any "educated" people, but will instead learn from those who truly "know God".