Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

parents have but a faint idea to what extent
licentiousness exists in these institutions of
learning. In many cases the parents have labored
hard and suffered many privations for the cherished
object of having their children obtain a finished
education. And after all their efforts, many have
the bitter experience of receiving their children
from their course of studies with dissolute habits
and ruined constitutions. And frequently they are
disrespectful to their parents, unthankful, and
unholy. These abused parents, who are thus
rewarded by ungrateful children, lament that they
sent their children from them, to be exposed to
temptations and come back to them physical,
mental, and moral wrecks. With disappointed
hopes and almost broken hearts, they see their
children, of whom they had high hopes, follow in a
course of vice and drag out a miserable existence....
Inordinate Study
Some students put their whole being into their
studies and concentrate their mind upon the object
of obtaining an education. They work the brain, but
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