Knowledge must be preferred to ignorance.  “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge” (Hosea 4:6 ESV).  The original context is the neglect of truth that comes through God’s law, but there is a much wider application.  What we do not know, what we refuse to learn, what we ignore can destroy us.  Even the church can foster a culture of ignorance that disparages education and all its sciences.  The disciples were more than “ignorant fishermen”.  They had been well schooled in the faith of Israel all their lives.  They received three years of training to rightly interpret that faith by the Master Teacher; their letters show that they were conversant with Greek and Roman learning.  Christians throughout history have founded schools because they valued truth and knowledge.  Proclaiming well-founded truth with spiritual power is needed today more than ever.  In your devotion to the Lord seek ever expanding knowledge of Him and His creation.