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True Education
cannot resist. To withstand this force, to attain that ideal which in
our inmost soul we accept as alone worthy, we can find help in but
one power. That power is Christ. Cooperation with that power is our
greatest need. In all educational effort should not this cooperation
be our highest aim?
True Teachers Aim to Inspire
True teachers are not satisfied with second-rate work. They are
not satisfied with directing their students to a standard lower than it
is possible for them to reach. They cannot be content with imparting
only technical knowledge, with making merely clever accountants,
skillful artisans, successful professionals. It is their ambition to
inspire students with principles of truth, obedience, honor, integrity,
and purity—principles that will make them a positive force for the
stability and uplifting of society. They desire them, above all else,
to learn life’s great lesson of unselfish service.
These principles become a living power to shape the character,
through the acquaintance of the soul with Christ, through an accep-
tance of His wisdom as the guide, His power as the strength, of
heart and life. This union formed, students have found the Source
of wisdom. They have within their reach the power to realize their
noblest ideals. In the training gained they are entering upon that
course which embraces eternity.
In the highest sense the work of education and the work of
redemption are one, for in education, as in redemption, “no other
foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.”
1 Corinthians 3:11
.
Under changed conditions, true education is still conformed to
the Creator’s plan, the plan of the Eden school. Adam and Eve
received instruction through direct communion with God; we behold
the light of the knowledge of His glory in the face of Christ.
The great principles of education are unchanged. “They stand
fast forever and ever” (
Psalm 111:8
), for they are the principles of
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the character of God. To aid the student in comprehending these
principles, and in entering into that relation with Christ which will
make them a controlling power in the life, should be the teacher’s