You are more then welcome to your opinion and I take no offense but is seems to me your definition of education is quite narrow perhaps.
There is a reason why numerous studies positively link education with better socioeconomic standing, health and happiness.
I don’t find it to be narrow. I have a Master’s degree. And I belong to the education profession. I never said that education is not important at all. It’s a necessity. But I just don’t see it as a gateway. I can have a PHD and reach the heights of my career and earn enough to want for nothing, I can fulfill every professional requirement on time, but if I can’t take time out do sajda 5 times a day, if I keep myself updated about the latest trends in my field and read all the professional books and attend every seminar, but if I never took the time to understand Allah’s book in its entirety and not just a handful of surahs which will be the only book that I’ll be questioned about in the next world (not the textbooks) then my life is lacking in those things that comprise the gateway to next dunya. The Quran speaks of a generation that lost their prayers; I don’t want my kids to be successful in every worldly way but to become careless like those former generations. Again, education and degree is a necessity in this world; I do not deny that at all. I’m not saying it should be one or the other. One should have both forms of education; deeni and worldly. I just see the former as being the gateway to success in both worlds while you see the latter as being the gateway. Also, given the times that we’re living in, the constant bashing of Islam in the media, and the temptations facing the youth, it will take more than a university education and degree…a sound deeni education is even more necessary now so that kids do not succumb to the media and the misinformation around them.
For some reason, You seem determined to interpret my reply a certain way despite my longer response previously.
Part of having an adult conversation is the ability to entertain and accept prespectives different from our own without becoming argumentative or defensive.
Thank you for sharing your prespective on the topic. Lets now allow this thread to proceed with its purpose, which is to learn about what various preferences parents have.