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

efficiency to those who, in the fear of God, seek to
train the young to a life of usefulness.
* * * * *
Our schools are the Lord’s special
instrumentality to fit the children and youth for
missionary work. Parents should understand their
responsibility and help their children to appreciate
the great privileges and blessings that God has
provided for them in educational advantages.
But their domestic education should keep pace
with their education in missionary lines. In
childhood and youth practical and literary training
should be combined. Children should be taught to
have a part in domestic duties. They should be
instructed how to help father and mother in the
little things that they can do. Their minds should be
trained to think, their memories taxed to remember
their appointed work; and in the training to habits
of usefulness in the home they are being educated
in doing practical duties appropriate to their age.
212