Long ago, Bible colleges and seminaries were forced to take women because of pressure from the world and worldly-minded Christians. Eventually, in order to be acreditted with the government and have their degrees acknowledged, they had to offer courses for girls and also have co-ed campuses. The courses for the young women had to be promoted to attract them to the colleges, so it was made to seem godly and "necessary" that they get training like the men.

Mission boards and other Christian organizations encouraged this disobedience by requiring varying degrees of "training" for those that worked for them. All too oftern, young person, male or female, had to have college or Bible school training of some sort. It was not "acceptable" nor "adequate" to have studied at the feet of a godly pastor or aged woman (for the girls). (Judging by some of the people that ended up on the missionfield and in positions in Christian organizations, this plan did not do anything to keep the unqualified out of the work. In fact, in many cases it promoted the unqualified and crippled the true servants.)

Thus, today we have literally generations of people thinking that education is utterly important and that somehow, everyone, boys and girls alike, has to have a college education to be really "completed." Never mind what God says; And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: Colossians 2:10 You won't find a verse in the Bible to prove that a woman has to have a college education to be a virtuous woman. (In fact, you won't find a verse in the Bible that proves anyone has to have a college education to do the Lord's work. There is actually more to prove that the knowledge and wisdom of man will get in the way of serving the Lord! Acts 7:22-30, Colossians 2:8, Pilippians 3:4-8)

So, the "well-rounded" young ladies "have to" go to college to be really worth anything according to this myth. How are they going to pay their way through? By getting a job, of course, just like the boys. So, the folly perpetuates folly. Often they start working outside the home while in high school either to save for college, "to learn to earn" (which is allegedly good for them), or "to have some spending money." Don't ask for a chapter and verse from the Bible to support going out of the home to do this. There isn't one!

Often the Christian colleges will "help" the young women get jobs on campus, as if that makes it all right with God. Well, the environment may be better, but it does not excuse disobedience to the word of God!

A friend of mine spent half a year or more at a Bible college and then had to go home for some reason. She had been studying for a degree in "Home Economics." As she pointed out to me after she came back, she finally realized that the best place to study "Home Economics" was under her mother who is a godly woman. What a novel idea! Who would have ever thought of that? The LORD, that's who! My friend, Pam, was thankful and blessed to have figured it out before she paid for 4 years of college!

Another ugly aspect of the college folly is that the young lady generally has to leave home to acquire this "necessary" schooling. How is she learning to be a keeper at home by doing that? Is it right to do wrong to do right? Never!

The Bible is very clear on girls leaving the protection of their fathers and/or brothers before they are married. Genesis 34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

You mothers will run your daughters out the door into the world to work or to go to college far from home; and then will be horrified, shocked and dismayed when she gets into fornication or is raped. WAKE UP! She belongs at home with you! Nobody loves that girl like you do! They are not going to watch out for her best interests like you and, even more so, your husband will! Oh, there may be rules by the ton at the college and there may be consideration in miles at the work place she's in, but when you trot her out where Shechem can see her and get close to her, you are inviting this trouble upon yourself, your daughter, your sons, and your husband! And remember, there are many "good, godly" Shechems running around the campuses of the very best and narrowest colleges. Ask any God-fearing young lady that has had to dodge them! We have heard about them.

You young ladies and girls that think it is necessary for you to go away to college or out to work -- why do you think that God gave you a father? He is there to protect you and look out for your heart as well as your virginity and your physical needs. You should rejoice in that protection as a Christian should rejoice in God the Father's protection over His children. Wouldn't you think a Christian was crazy who didn't like the fact that God was watching over them all the time? Go read the whole story of Dinah in Genesis 34 and see what trouble she made for her Dad because she was not content with his protection.

The solution? It's simple. Stay home!

Courtesy of http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/homemake/stay-p1.htm