I don’t believe that we scar our thinking by accepting academics instead of sanctifying our education through faith in His Provision.
Other, non-Christians, sanctify their education through faith in what they believe to be His Provision, don’t they?
We aren’t sanctified by our actions. Instead He sanctifies us.
That sanctification process is associated with a person remaining in fellowship with God through faith in Christ.
The difference between academics and education is that education focuses on changing the way a person thinks, while academics simply present information and perhaps intelligence.
Scripture promotes education because our entire walk in Christ is based upon our thinking and exercising that thinking in our life.
Our souls were always scarred from our living as unbelievers prior to salvation. Once saved, in the Church Age, God the Holy Spirit seals and indwells us, sanctifying our soul by means of our newly formed human spirit in a spiritual walk with Him.
If we turn away from Him, in our thinking, we aren’t unsaved, we don’t lose our human spirit, rather, we fall back into our prior carnal or worldly selves. We allow our old sin nature to prevail over the new man.
In a sense, our soul, our mind and recall are all scarred from our old sin nature and past experience and past thinking. When we turn back to Him, and confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and if we continue to then walk with Him, intaking His Word, He then uses that Word to sanctify our thinking in our soul.
It’s His work in us which produces the doctrine (thinking, also translated as a noun of faith) in us. His work in us is our faith.