"them to seek for a high worldly standard of intellectual attainment, that students may make a brilliant show; but when it comes to solid acquirements,—those which are essential to fit men and women for any and every emergency in practical life,—such students are only partially prepared to make life a success. Their defective education often leads to failure in whatever branch of business they undertake. CE 211.1"
"Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth."
Both passages address the potential dangers of prioritizing intellectual attainment without practical application or love. EGW criticizes a focus on 'brilliant show' over 'solid acquirements,' while 1 Corinthians 8:1 warns that 'knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.'