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Child Guidance
thinking and feeling and anticipating, that reached beyond things seen
and transitory, to the unseen and eternal
It Precedes and Prepares for the Day School—The work of
parents precedes that of the teacher. They have a home school—the
first grade. If they seek carefully and prayerfully to know and to do
their duty, they will prepare their children to enter the second grade—to
receive instructions from the teacher
It Fashions Character—The home may be a school where the
children are indeed fashioned in character after the similitude of a
palace
Education in the Nazareth Home—Jesus secured His education
in the home. His mother was His first human teacher. From her lips,
and from the scrolls of the prophets, He learned of heavenly things. He
lived in a peasant’s home and faithfully and cheerfully acted His part
[20]
in bearing the household burdens. He who had been the commander
of heaven was a willing servant, a loving, obedient son. He learned
a trade, and with His own hands worked in the carpenter’s shop with
Joseph
[21]
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Fundamentals of Christian Education, 95
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9
The Review and Herald, June 13, 1882
.
10
Manuscript 136, 1898
.
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The Ministry of Healing, 399
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