Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

overstudy, while they neglect that which pertains to
practical business life. Men and women become
parents without considering their responsibilities,
and their offspring sink lower in the scale of human
deficiency than they themselves. Thus the race is
fast degenerating. The constant application to
study, as the schools are now conducted, is
unfitting youth for practical life. The human mind
will have action. If it is not active in the right
direction, it will be active in the wrong. In order to
preserve the balance of the mind, labor and study
should be united in the schools.
Provision should have been made in past
generations for education upon a larger scale. In
connection with the schools should have been
agricultural and manufacturing establishments.
There should also have been teachers of household
labor. And a portion of the time each day should
have been devoted to labor, that the physical and
mental powers might be equally exercised. If
schools had been established upon the plan we
have mentioned, there would not now be so many
unbalanced minds....
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