To the editor:

I agree with part of the conclusions by Gene Budig and Alan Heaps (Journal-World, Oct. 5) — the part that says that technology is not the key ingredient in education. I have worked in technology for over 60 years and have seen and experienced the costs and benefits of scientific truth, but it is a minor part of the total truth which is found only in Jesus Christ.

The Bible says in Ephesians 6:4 that fathers are not to provoke their children to anger but to raise them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. This latter spiritual dimension is lacking in universal education. Malachi 4:5-6 warns that the Lord will strike the land with a curse (Are we not seeing this in America and other nations?) if the hearts of the fathers and the children are not restored. Luke 1:15-17 speaks of John the Baptist, who was used by God as a forerunner to Jesus, to restore the fathers’ hearts to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready a people for the Lord. A family whose instruction is based on the word of God will provide a curse-less future for any nation.

The foundation of education is given in Psalm. 111:2: “The works of the Lord are great, studied by all who have pleasure in them.” All of creation are His works and there is more than enough truth in them to keep us all busy studying them and glorifying God who is the Creator of all.