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True Ambition—Dear youth, what is the aim and purpose of your
life? Are you ambitious for education that you may have a name and
position in the world? Have you thoughts that you dare not express,
that you may one day stand upon the summit of intellectual greatness;
that you may sit in deliberative and legislative councils and help to
enact laws for the nation? There is nothing wrong in these aspirations.
You may every one of you make your mark. You should be content
with no mean attainments. Aim high and spare no pains to reach the
standard.—
The Review and Herald, August 19, 1884
. (
Fundamentals
of Christian Education, 82
.)
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The Most Essential Knowledge—Let the youth advance as fast
and as far as they can in the acquisition of knowledge. ... And as they
learn, let them impart their knowledge. It is thus that their minds will
acquire discipline and power. It is the use they make of knowledge that
determines the value of their education. To spend a long time in study,
with no effort to impart what is gained, often proves a hindrance rather
than a help to real development. In both the home and the school it
should be the student’s effort to learn how to study and how to impart
the knowledge gained. Whatever his calling, he is to be both a learner
and a teacher as long as life shall last.—
The Ministry of Healing,
402
(1905).
The most essential education for our youth today to gain, and that
which will fit them for the higher grades of the school above, is an
education that will teach them how to reveal the will of God to the
world.—
The Review and Herald, October 24, 1907
. (
Fundamentals of
Christian Education, 512
.)
The essential knowledge is a knowledge of God and of Him whom
He has sent.
Every child and every youth should have a knowledge of himself.
He should understand the physical habitation that God has given him
and the laws by which it is kept in health. All should be thoroughly
grounded in the common branches of education. And they should have
industrial training that will make them men and women of practical
ability, fitted for the duties of everyday life. To this should be added
training and practical experience in various lines of missionary effort.—
The Ministry of Healing, 402
(1905).
“What ‘University Course’ Can Equal This?”—“The great day
of the Lord is near...” and a world is to be warned.... Thousands of