The best way is the the long-term way of thinking: building or rebuilding beautiful architecture and infrastructure that lasts; planting trees and gardens wisely and well, with an eye to the end result perhaps 20-100 years in the future; being good stewards of the land for future use and enjoyment; accumulating wealth for descendants; learning from the mistakes of ancestors and healing the wounds of abuse and sorrow that have been passed down through families; and preserving the best of our culture while discarding the dross.”
-thus E.C.

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.

29 But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God.

-thus Jacob, 2 Nephi 9:29.  That scripture wasn’t even mentioned in the lesson manual, but its what everyone wanted to talk about.  That says a lot about where we are at these days.

They generalized it to include the rich and the famous and generally everyone who has high status in worldly terms.

The conclusion of the discussion was that the problem with the learned and the clever and the successful wasn’t that they  had too much learning or smarts or success for their own good.  It was that they had too little.

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