Educating Fools

Proverbs 17:16 tells us that it is "senseless to pay tuition to educate a fool who has no heart for wisdom." What this means is that we shouldn't waste our time trying impart knowledge or wisdom to someone that won't appreciate and be a good steward of it.

Too many times we spend time trying to impart our knowledge to someone else. If we're honest we are likely to find that the motive behind such efforts is a belief that the knowledge we have for them will change their perspective, their behavior or maybe even their being. But rarely is life-changing information ever intentionally given to one person by another.