set forth principles essential to the understanding of those who guide
the youth in the home and in the school
.
The writer of these pages was a friend of young men and women.
She was for many years in close touch with institutions of learning
and was well acquainted with the problems of youth in preparation
for their lifework. Above all, she was endued with more than ordinary
knowledge and skill as a writer and speaker
.
Concerned as it is with great guiding principles, and not with the
details of curriculum or the merits of differing educational systems, the
influence of this volume has been world wide, with editions published
in a number of the leading languages of other continents. That this
new American printing may still more widely disseminate the great
principles of character education is the ardent hope of the publishers
and—
The Trustees of the
Ellen G. White Publications
.
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