Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

the powers of body and mind. Then a practical
knowledge of business could have been obtained
while their literary education was being gained.
Students at school should have had their moral
sensibilities aroused to see and feel that society has
claims upon them, and that they should live in
obedience to natural law, so that they can, by their
existence and influence, by precept and example,
be an advantage and blessing to society. It should
be impressed upon the youth that all have an
influence that is constantly telling upon society, to
improve and elevate, or to lower and debase. The
first study of the young should be to know
themselves and how to keep their bodies in health.
Result of Continued Application
Many parents keep their children at school
nearly the year round. These children go through
the routine of study mechanically, but do not retain
that which they learn. Many of these constant
students seem almost destitute of intellectual life.
The monotony of continual study wearies the mind,
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