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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
even to have knowledge; we must have ability to use the knowledge
aright.
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The time, means, and study that so many expend for a compara-
tively useless education should be devoted to gaining an education
that would make them practical men and women, fitted to bear life’s
responsibilities. Such an education would be of the highest value.
Heart Education
What we need is knowledge that will strengthen mind and soul,
that will make us better men and women. Heart education is of far
more importance than mere book learning. It is well, even essential,
to have a knowledge of the world in which we live; but if we leave
eternity out of our reckoning we shall make a failure from which we
can never recover....
If the youth understood their own weakness, they would find in
God their strength. If they seek to be taught by Him they will become
wise in His wisdom, and their lives will be fruitful in blessing to
the world. But if they give up their minds to mere worldly and
speculative study, and thus separate from God, they will lose all that
enriches life.—
The Ministry of Healing, 439-450
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To gain the higher education means to become a partaker of the
divine nature. It means to copy the life and character of Christ so that
we shall stand on vantage ground as we fight the battles of life. It
means to gain daily victories over sin. As we seek for this education,
angels of God are our companions; when the enemy comes in like a
flood, the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a standard for us against him.
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