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All-round Development for Every Duty—And those who would
be workers together with God must strive for perfection of every organ
of the body and quality of the mind. True education is the preparation
of the physical, mental, and moral powers for the performance of every
duty; it is the training of body, mind, and soul for divine service. This
is the education that will endure unto eternal life.—
Christ’s Object
Lessons, 330
(1900).
All Powers to Reach Their Highest Potential—God designs that
the college at Battle Creek shall reach a higher standard of intellectual
and moral culture than any other institution of the kind in our land. The
youth should be taught the importance of cultivating their physical,
mental, and moral powers that they may not only reach the highest at-
tainments in science, but through a knowledge of God may be educated
to glorify Him; that they may develop symmetrical characters, and thus
be fully prepared for usefulness in this world and obtain a moral fitness
for the immortal life.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:425
(1880).
Knowledge of Science of All Kinds Is Power—The schools es-
tablished among us are matters of grave responsibility, for important
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interests are involved. In a special manner our schools are a spectacle
unto angels and to men. A knowledge of science of all kinds is power,
and it is in the purpose of God that advanced science shall be taught
in our schools as a preparation for the work that is to precede the
closing scenes of earth’s history. The truth is to go to the remotest
bounds of the earth, through agents trained for the work. But while the
knowledge of science is a power, the knowledge which Jesus in person
came to impart to the world was the knowledge of the gospel. The
light of truth was to flash its bright rays into the uttermost parts of the
earth, and the acceptance or rejection of the message of God involved
the eternal destiny of souls.—
The Review and Herald, December 1,
1891
. (
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 186
.)
Youth to Be Thinkers—Every human being, created in the im-
age of God, is endowed with a power akin to that of the Creator—
individuality, power to think and to do. The men in whom this power
is developed are the men who bear responsibilities, who are leaders in
enterprise, and who influence character. It is the work of true education
to develop this power, to train the youth to be thinkers, and not mere
reflectors of other men’s thought.