1 Corinthians 3

V. 18-20 We are all fools

These few verses would cause the elites of higher education to spontaneously combust upon reading them. When I worked in higher education at Marshall University, over a decade ago, your value wasn’t in how good a worker you were or how valuable you were to the University; your value was determined by your level of secular education. If you had a masters, you were better than someone with a bachelors and if you had a doctorate you were better than someone with a master, and If you had two doctorates you were better than someone with one doctorate. They wouldn’t like to hear the Apostle Paul say that all those meaningless degrees were foolishness in God’s eyes.
There is nothing wrong with someone educating themselves but there is something wrong with someone seeing that education as perfecting them. In verse 18 Paul says that we should all understand that wisdom by the world’s standard does not equal wisdom by God’s standards and in fact sometimes they stand in direct opposition to each other. True wisdom cannot be separated from God and it comes with an understanding that we are fools in His sight. We become as fools to this world so our eyes can be opened to the wisdom of God.