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If criticism or suggestion in regard to the teacher’s work be-
comes necessary, it should be made to him in private. If this proves
ineffective, let the matter be referred to those who are responsi-
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ble for the management of the school. Nothing should be said or
done to weaken the children’s respect for the one upon whom their
well-being in so great degree depends.—
Education, 284
.
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Parents should keep ever before their minds the object to be
gained—the perfection of the characters of their children. Those
parents who educate their children aright, weeding from their lives
every unruly trait, are fitting them to become missionaries for Christ
in truth, in righteousness, in holiness. He who in his childhood does
service for God, adding to his “faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and
to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity” (
2 Peter 1:5-7
), is fitting himself to hear
and to respond to the call, “Child, come up higher; enter the higher
school.”
Do you think we shall not learn anything there? We have not the
slightest idea of what will then be opened before us. With Christ we
shall walk beside the living waters. He will unfold to us the beauty
and glory of nature. He will reveal what He is to us, and what we are
to Him. Truth we cannot know now, because of finite limitations,
we shall know hereafter.
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Neither the church school nor the college affords the opportu-
nities for establishing a child’s character building upon the right
foundation that are afforded in the home.
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For Further Study
The Child’s First School
The Acts of the Apostles, 203-205
.
The Adventist Home, 15-28, 177-186, 190-199
.
Child Guidance, 17-28
.