Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

preservation of health.—Testimonies for the
Church 7:87 (1902).
Close Confinement at School
[Testimonies for the Church 3:135-138 (1872).]
The system of education carried out for generations
back has been destructive to health and even life
itself. Many young children have passed five hours
each day in schoolrooms not properly ventilated,
nor sufficiently large for the healthful
accommodation of the scholars. The air of such
rooms soon becomes poison to the lungs that inhale
it.
Little children, whose limbs and muscles are
not strong, and whose brains are undeveloped, have
been kept confined indoors to their injury. Many
have but a slight hold on life to begin with.
Confinement in school from day to day makes
them nervous and diseased. Their bodies are
dwarfed because of the exhausted condition of the
nervous system. And if the lamp of life goes out,
the parents and teachers do not consider that they
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