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If your motives are pure and unselfish, if you are ever looking
for work which somebody must do, if you are always on the alert to
show kindly attentions and do courteous deeds, you are unconsciously
building your own monument. This is the work that God calls upon
all children and youth to do.—
Letters to Physicians and Ministers 1,
July 1900, 32.
Self-support an Important Part of Education—In acquiring an
education many students would gain a most valuable training if they
would become self-sustaining. Instead of incurring debts or depending
on the self-denial of their parents, let young men and young women
depend on themselves. They will thus learn the value of money, the
value of time, strength, and opportunities, and will be under far less
temptation to indulge idle and spendthrift habits. The lessons of
economy, industry, self-denial, practical business management, and
steadfastness of purpose, thus mastered, would prove a most important
part of their equipment for the battle of life. And the lesson of self-
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help learned by the student would go far toward preserving institutions
of learning from the burden of debt under which so many schools
have struggled and which has done so much toward crippling their
usefulness.—
Education, 221
(1903).
Education Molds Social Fabric—Throughout the world, society
is in disorder, and a thorough transformation is needed. The education
given to the youth is to mold the whole social fabric.—
The Ministry
of Healing, 406
(1905).
Need for Schools to Teach Agriculture—Our schools could aid
effectively in the disposition of the unemployed masses. Thousands
of helpless and starving beings, whose numbers are daily swelling the
ranks of the criminal classes, might achieve self-support in a happy,
healthy, independent life if they could be directed in skillful, diligent
labor in the tilling of the soil.—
Education, 220
(1903).
Education Continues Through Life—In the school of Christ,
students are never graduated. Among the pupils are both old and
young. Those who give heed to the instructions of the Divine Teacher
constantly advance in wisdom, refinement, and nobility of soul, and
thus they are prepared to enter that higher school where advancement
will continue throughout eternity.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and
Students, 51
(1913).