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1 Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and StudentsEllen G. White1913 Copyright 2014 Ellen G. White Estate, about this BookOverviewThis eBook is provided by the Ellen G. White Estate. It is includedin the larger free Online Books collection on the Ellen G. WhiteEstate Web the AuthorEllen G. White (1827-1915) is considered the most widely translatedAmerican author, her works having been published in more than 160languages. She wrote more than 100,000 pages on a wide variety ofspiritual and practical topics. Guided by the Holy Spirit, she exaltedJesus and pointed to the Scriptures as the basis of one s LinksA Brief Biography of Ellen G. WhiteAbout the Ellen G. White EstateEnd User License AgreementThe viewing, printing or downloading of this book grants you onlya limited, nonexclusive and nontransferable license for use solelyby you for your own personal use. This license does not permitrepublication, distribution, assignment, sublicense, sale, preparationof derivative works, or other use.

2 Any unauthorized use of this bookterminates the license granted InformationFor more information about the author, publishers, or how youcan support this service, please contact the Ellen G. White Estateat We are thankful for your interest andfeedback and wish you God s blessing as you early as 1872, counsel and instruction regarding Christianeducation began to come from the pen of Ellen G. White to Sev-enth-day Adventists. The first comprehensive article on this subject,entitled Proper Education, is found inTestimonies for the Church3:131-160. In the thirty pages of this article may be found, in em-bryo or in well-developed form, every fundamental principle whichshould govern the training and instruction of children and as some of the views expressed may have seemed tobe at the time of writing, they are today recognized and advocatedby progressive educational thinkers. Seventh-day Adventists mayjustly regard themselves as highly favored in that such a fundamentaloutline of educational principles appeared so early in their brief yet comprehensive outline, given to lead us into righteducational paths, has been followed through the years by further,more detailed Counsels , reiterating the principles first set forth, ex-panding their application, and urging their Ed-ucationandSpecial Testimonies on Education, two small workspublished in the nineties, carried these messages to the , in 1903,Education, a masterpiece in the field of charac-ter education, was presented to the general reading public by Ellen , and through many printings and translations it has conveyedits helpful messages to thousands in this and in other lands.

3 But thespecial detailed instruction, specifically addressed to Seventh-dayAdventists, could not well be included in this popular volume in-tended for more general distribution; and the earlier works havingpassed out of print, much of the wealth of specific counsel of great[6]value to us was no longer available. To provide this, together withlater and fuller writings on certain phases of the topic, this work, Counsels to parents , Teachers, and Students, was published in to view in this volume are the principles and methods ofpresenting an education which includes not only mental discipline,but that training which will secure sound morals and correct deport-iiiment that education which will fit men and women for serviceby developing and bringing into active exercise all their faculties. As the subject is developed, there are clearly set forth the re-sponsibilities and duties of parents , heartening counsel to guide theteachers in their work, and practical instruction to those who devotethe years of their youth in preparing for a life of the close of each section, a page under the title For FurtherStudy presents references to other White books containingrelated instruction.

4 With the publication of the four volumes,Funda-mentals of Christian Education(1923),Messages to Young People(1930),The Adventist Home(1952), andChild Guidance(1954),the sources of available related White materials is greatly ex-panded. In this printing the reference on the For Further Study pages have been broadened to include these helpful this volume may serve yet more fully as a guide to parentsand teachers in advancing the most delicate work ever entrusted tomortals, that of bringing man back into harmony with God, is theearnest desire of the Publishers andThe Trustees of theEllen G. White Publications[7]ContentsInformation about this Book .. iPreface .. iiiSection 1 The Higher Education .. 13 The Essential Knowledge .. 14 The Peril in Worldly Education .. 16 The First of Sciences .. 20 Mastering the Science .. 20 True Success in Education .. 21 The Teacher of Truth the Only Safe Educator.

5 25 God Misrepresented .. 27A True Representation .. 27 Unselfish Service the Law of Heaven .. 30 The Result of Self-Seeking .. 30 The Remedy .. 31 The Higher Education For Further Study .. 34 Section 2 The Aim of Our Schools .. 37 Our Children and Youth Demand Our Care .. 38A Liberal Education to Be Provided .. 39 All to Be Trained .. 39A Fund for Schoolwork .. 40 High Aims .. 41 The Responsibility of Church Members .. 41 The Teacher s Privilege .. 42 The Primal Object of Education .. 44 The One Perfect Pattern .. 44 The School of Christ .. 45 The Bible as an Educator .. 46 Lessons From Nature .. 47 The Heavenly Pattern .. 49 Character Building .. 53 Teachers and Teaching .. 56 God Our Dependence .. 57An Effective Helper .. 58 The Aim of Our Schools For Further Study .. 61vviCounsels to parents , Teachers, and StudentsSection 3 General Principles .. 63 The Right Education.

6 64 Individuality in Children .. 64 Cause of Instability in Youth .. 65 Personal Qualifications of the Teacher .. 66 Close Confinement at School .. 67 The Ideal Plan .. 68 Physical Degeneracy .. 69 Importance of Home Training .. 70 Regulation of Employment and Amusement .. 71 Result of Continued Application .. 72 Our College .. 74 Education of Young Men for the Ministry .. 74 Bible Study .. 75 The Teacher s Responsibility .. 77 The parents Part .. 77 The Need of Counseling Together .. 78 Christian Courtesy .. 79 The True Test of Prosperity .. 80 God s Purpose for the College .. 81 Deportment of Students .. 83 Association With Others .. 84 General Principles For Further Study .. 87 Section 4 The Home School .. 89 The Child s First School .. 90 The Family Altar .. 92 Home Discipline .. 92 Making Home Attractive .. 94 Unpromising Children .. 96 When and How to Punish.

7 96 Safeguarding the Young .. 99 Choosing Associates .. 99 The Choice of Reading .. 100 Teaching Children to Be Useful .. 101 The Physical Well-Being .. 103 Unity in Government .. 105A Missionary Training .. 106 What Shall Our Children Read? .. 108 ContentsviiWorthless Reading .. 109 Infidel Authors .. 110 Preoccupy the Soil .. 111 The Sabbath School Lesson .. 111 The Home Reading Circle .. 112 The Bible .. 113 The Parable of the Growing Seed .. 114 The Beauty of Simplicity .. 115 The Garden of the Heart .. 115 Teaching Lessons of Helpfulness .. 118 The Co-operation of Teacher and Parent .. 119 Christ s Example .. 119Co-operation Between the Home and the School .. 122 What the Teacher Should Be .. 122 Requiring Obedience .. 123 parents to Strengthen the Teacher s Hands .. 124A Sympathetic Understanding .. 127 Home Schools .. 128 Bible Study in the Home.

8 129 Missionary Agencies .. 130 For Further Study .. 131 Section 5 The Church School .. 135 Our Responsibility .. 136 The Work to Be Done for Our Children .. 138 The Work of the Church School .. 142 Church Schools Needed .. 142 The Character of Church Schools and of Their Teachers 143 Results of Church-School Work .. 144 Christ as the Example and Teacher of Youth .. 146 The Bible Lesson .. 149 The Victory of Faith .. 150 Teaching from Nature .. 152 Under Discipline to Christ .. 157An Object Lesson .. 161A Wide Field .. 162 The Church School For Further Study .. 164 Section 6 The Intermediate School .. 165 Intermediate Schools .. 166viiiCounsels to parents , Teachers, and StudentsThe Work of the Fernando School .. 168 The Training of Missionaries .. 170 Further Instruction .. 171 Value of the Common Branches .. 175 The Influence Of Association .. 179 The Intermediate School For Further Study.

9 183 Section 7 The Teacher And The Work .. 185 Some Of The Christian Teacher s Needs .. 186A Personal Knowledge of Christ .. 186 The Teacher s Need of Prayer .. 187 Dealing With Students as Individuals .. 188 Harmonious Development .. 188 The Power of a Happy Disposition .. 188 Increase by Use .. 190An Appeal .. 190 The Necessity Of Doing Our Best .. 192 The Right Use of the Gift of Speech .. 193 Christ s Method .. 194In Prayer .. 194In Witnessing for Christ .. 196 Consecration of the Voice .. 198A Deeper Consecration .. 200 The Teacher an Evangelist .. 201 Loma Linda .. 202 The Importance Of Simplicity .. 204To the Teachers at Berrien Springs: .. 204A Caution .. 207 The Great Teacher .. 210 Christian Discipline .. 214 The Student s Part .. 214 The Teacher s Part .. 215 Public Exposure of Wrongdoing .. 216 Expelling Students .. 217 The Teacher And The Work For Further Study.

10 218 Section 8 Study And Labor .. 221 The Dignity Of Labor .. 222 Manual Labor Versus Games .. 223 Manual Training Among the Israelites .. 223 ContentsixChrist s Example .. 224 The Relation Between Christianity and Human Effort .. 225 The Lessons of Contented Industry .. 226 Words of counsel .. 228 Physical Labor for Students .. 231 The Curse of Inaction .. 232 Advantages of Physical Labor .. 233 The Education of Girls .. 234 Equalizing Labor .. 234 Work Not Degrading .. 235A Reformatory Work .. 236 Health and Efficiency .. 238 Overstudy .. 239 Voice Culture .. 240 Diet .. 240 Ventilation and Sanitation .. 241 The Reward of Obedience .. 241 Some Principles of Healthful Dressing .. 244 Physical Effects of Improper Dress .. 245A Practical Training .. 248 Industrial Work .. 250 The Common Arts .. 252 Does It Pay .. 254 Study And Labor For Further Study.