Is knowing Christ better than education and knowledge?
Yes. Education and the explosion of knowledge and technology have value, but knowing Christ is far better. To know Him goes beyond human knowledge and is the means of being filled with all the fullness of God. The Apostle's prayer presents this as a higher pursuit.
Les teaches that people are hung up on education, though he has nothing against it, and he acknowledges the amazing explosion of knowledge and technology today. Yet he insists something is far better: to know Christ. Knowing Him is beyond human knowledge, and it leads to being filled with all the fullness of God. This fits the Apostle's prayer that believers enter into a fourth dimension and know the love of Christ, which goes beyond knowledge. Les also notes Isaac Newton's expectation that a body of men would discern prophecy, and Dwight L. Moody's desire, after reading a dying man's regret, to be the man God used to the full.