Going to the Head of the Class
James Merritt
I James 1:5-12
Introduction
1. We live today in a country and in a world that is literally exploding with knowledge, to zany that is a great comfort for over « century the humanistic educators led by a nan by the name of john lewis has told us that knowledge and education is the key to utopia. Never in the history of the world have more people known more things about more things than today.
2. Listen to these statistics from a book entitled megatrends by john naisbitt, there are between 6,000 and 7,000 scientific articles written every day. Scientific and technical information now increases 13% per year which means it doubles every 5 « years. The rate however will soon jump to 40% per year because of new and powerful computers and an increasing population of scientists. That means that we are approaching a day where knowledge is going to double every 20 months. By 1985 the volume of knowledge which we have will be somewhere between 4 andamp; 7 times what it was only a decade earlier. Then naisbitt goes on to make this statement: we are drowning in information but starved for knowledge,'' i believe i know what he means but i would say it this way. We are drowning in knowledge but starved for wisdom.
4. We are living in a country of educated fools. We have never had more- college graduates and never more educated ignorance. We have learned to travel faster than sound but we are going faster in the wrong direction. We have accumulated piles of knowledge about the world we live in but we haven t 2 learned any better how to live in the world, there is nothing more dangerous on the earth then knowledge without wisdom.
5. You see there is a tremendous difference between knowledge and wisdom. Charles spurgeon said, ''wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to u ...
James Merritt
I James 1:5-12
Introduction
1. We live today in a country and in a world that is literally exploding with knowledge, to zany that is a great comfort for over « century the humanistic educators led by a nan by the name of john lewis has told us that knowledge and education is the key to utopia. Never in the history of the world have more people known more things about more things than today.
2. Listen to these statistics from a book entitled megatrends by john naisbitt, there are between 6,000 and 7,000 scientific articles written every day. Scientific and technical information now increases 13% per year which means it doubles every 5 « years. The rate however will soon jump to 40% per year because of new and powerful computers and an increasing population of scientists. That means that we are approaching a day where knowledge is going to double every 20 months. By 1985 the volume of knowledge which we have will be somewhere between 4 andamp; 7 times what it was only a decade earlier. Then naisbitt goes on to make this statement: we are drowning in information but starved for knowledge,'' i believe i know what he means but i would say it this way. We are drowning in knowledge but starved for wisdom.
4. We are living in a country of educated fools. We have never had more- college graduates and never more educated ignorance. We have learned to travel faster than sound but we are going faster in the wrong direction. We have accumulated piles of knowledge about the world we live in but we haven t 2 learned any better how to live in the world, there is nothing more dangerous on the earth then knowledge without wisdom.
5. You see there is a tremendous difference between knowledge and wisdom. Charles spurgeon said, ''wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to u ...
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