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

character must receive proper discipline for its
fullest and noblest development. The students
should receive at college such training as will
enable them to maintain a respectable, honest,
virtuous standing in society, against the
demoralizing influences which are corrupting the
youth.
It would be well could there be connected with
our college, land for cultivation, and also
workshops, under the charge of men competent to
instruct the students in the various departments of
physical labor. Much is lost by a neglect to unite
physical with mental taxation. The leisure hours of
the students are often occupied with frivolous
pleasures, which weaken physical, mental, and
moral powers. Under the debasing power of
sensual indulgence, or the untimely excitement of
courtship and marriage, many students fail to reach
that height of mental development which they
might otherwise have attained. ...
Bible Study If morality and religion are to live
in a school, it must be through a knowledge of
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