Wisdom Is No Longer Valued

In early America, when most people greatly valued wisdom, parents taught it to their children, and schools taught it to their students. Wisdom, as much as faith, was the reason virtually every home and every school, including universities, taught young people the Bible—and the great Greek and Roman thinkers (who, though not believers in the God of the Bible, were neither irreligious nor atheist).

In the modern era, American and other Western children study neither the Bible nor the literature of the great classic minds. The result is more and more well-educated people who are devoid of wisdom. This why universities became centers of foolishness. The great American thinker William F. Buckley famously said, “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy: God, Blessings, and Curses, pg.81-82