Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

A return to simpler methods will be appreciated
by the children and youth. Work in the garden and
field will be an agreeable change from the
wearisome routine of abstract lessons to which the
young minds should never be confined. To the
nervous child or youth, who finds lessons from
books exhausting and hard to remember, it will be
especially valuable. There is health and happiness
for him in the study of nature; and the impressions
made will not fade out of his mind, for they will be
associated with objects that are continually before
his eyes.—<strong>Counsels</strong> to Teachers, 187 (1913).
A Proper Balance of Physical and Mental Labor
[Testimonies for the Church 3:152-159 (1872).]
All the powers of the mind should be called into
use and developed, in order for men and women to
have well-balanced minds. The world is full of
one-sided men and women, who have become such
because one set of their faculties was cultivated,
while others were dwarfed from inaction. The
education of most youth is a failure. They
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