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The Bible depicts wisdom as something to be valued, cherished, and sought after. People are to search for it and collect it. Learning is life-long. But this is not some abstract knowledge. Wisdom is practical.

The Greek word translated as “wisdom” basically means “skill.”

It is knowledge and learning and craft—the stuff that helps people live to their full potential—“life skills” as we might say today.

Wisdom is also moral. It gives you the ability to make wise choices, to discern what is right. It helps you understand the meaning, spot the patterns in the swirl of events around you.

All these things show why human beings need to learn. It’s not just learning for learning’s sake; it’s helping people to live, giving them choices (and helping them to choose). To deny people an education is to starve them of wisdom. They cannot grow the skills they need; they cannot learn a trade or craft; they do not have the wisdom they need to find the way out. They really do have to learn the hard way.

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“Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...”