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

discouraged. Test and trial bring experience. If the
children are disobedient and unruly, there is all the
more need of strenuous effort. The fact that there
are children with such characters is one of the
reasons why church schools should be established.
The children whom parents have neglected to
educate and discipline must be saved if possible.
In the school as well as in the home there
should be wise discipline. The teacher must make
rules to guide the conduct of his pupils. These rules
should be few and well considered, and once made
they should be enforced. Every principle involved
in them should be so placed before the student that
he will be convinced of its justice. Thus he will feel
a responsibility to see that the rules which he
himself has helped to frame are obeyed.
Parents to Strengthen the Teacher’s Hands
The teacher should not be left to carry the
burden of his work alone. He needs the sympathy,
the kindness, the co-operation, and the love of
every church member. The parents should
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