Russell M. Nelson, as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said: “Choose carefully what you will learn, whose teachings you will follow, and whose purposes you will serve. And don’t place all your intellectual eggs in one basket of secular learning. Remember this warning from the Book of Mormon:
“O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish. But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God” (2 Nephi 9:28-29).
That spiritual counsel was not heeded by a rich friend of mine who once proudly boasted that his climb towards wealth had come from tireless work and lessons learned in the “school of hard knocks.” But his financial fortune had come at the expense of his spiritual development. Only when it was too late did he discover, to his regret, that his ladder of success had been leaning against the wrong wall.” (Education—A Religious responsibility, ” BYU—Idaho Devotional, January 6, 2010) (‘Teachings of Russell M. Nelson, Deseret Book 2018, p. 93)
