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Master.—
The Review and Herald, June 21, 1877
. (
Fundamentals of
Christian Education, 47, 48
.)
Not Satisfied With Second-rate Work—The true teacher is not
satisfied with second-rate work. He is not satisfied with directing his
students to a standard lower than the highest which it is possible for
them to attain. He cannot be content with imparting to them only
technical knowledge, with making them merely clever accountants,
skillful artisans, successful tradesmen. It is his ambition to inspire
them with principles of truth, obedience, honor, integrity, and purity—
principles that will make them a positive force for the stability and
uplifting of society. He desires them, above all else, to learn life’s
great lesson of unselfish service.—
Education, 29, 30
(1903).
Mind to Be Carried Higher—I am instructed that we are to carry
the minds of our students higher than it is now thought by many to be
possible. Heart and mind are to be trained to preserve their purity by
receiving daily supplies from the fountain of eternal truth. The Divine
Mind and Hand has preserved through the ages the record of creation
in its purity. It is the Word of God alone that gives to us an authentic
account of the creation of our world. This Word is to be the chief
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study in our schools. Here we may hold converse with patriarchs and
prophets; here we may learn what our redemption has cost the One
who was equal with the Father from the beginning, and who sacrificed
His life that a people might stand before Him redeemed from every
common, earthly thing and renewed in the image of God.—
Letter 64,
1909
.
True Education Combines Intellectual and Moral—The Lord
has been waiting long for our teachers to walk in the light He has sent
them. There is need of a humbling of self that Christ may restore the
moral image of God in man. The character of the education given
must be greatly changed before it can give the right mold to our insti-
tutions. It is only when intellectual and moral powers are combined
for the attainment of education that the standard of the Word of God is
reached.—
The Review and Herald, September 3, 1908
. (
Fundamentals
of Christian Education, 527
.)
True Piety Elevates and Refines—Our people everywhere allow
their minds to take too low a range, too narrow a view. They allow the
plans of human agencies to guide them and a worldly spirit to mold
them, rather than Christ’s plans and Christ’s Spirit. I am instructed to