Brad Green: “I think this essay by David Lyle Jeffrey is one of the best things in print on the nature of learning. It is titled, ‘The Pearl of Great Wisdom: The Deep and Abiding Biblical Roots of Western Liberal Education.’ I use it often when I teach, and have re-read it numerous times. Jeffrey is arguing that in the western tradition after the first centurty (particularly in its pre-modern form), learning was often a means to wisdom, and a wisdom centered on the reading and interpretation of Scripture.”
You can also watch below Dr. Jeffrey lecture at the Houston Baptist University Dunham Bible Museum Lecture Series on “The Bible and Higher Education”: