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

making public the errors of students. To make
public exposure of wrong is harmful in every
respect to the wrongdoer and has no beneficial
influence upon the school. It never helps a student
to humiliate him before his fellow students. This
heals nothing, cures nothing, but makes a wound
that mortifies.
The love that suffers long and is kind will not
magnify an indiscretion into an unpardonable
offense, neither will it make capital of others’
misdoings. The Scriptures plainly teach that the
erring are to be treated with forbearance and
consideration. If the right course is followed, the
apparently obdurate heart may be won to Christ.
The love of Jesus covers a multitude of sins. His
grace never leads to the exposing of another’s
wrongs unless it is a positive necessity.
We are living in a hard, unfeeling, uncharitable
world. Satan and his angels are using every means
in their power to destroy souls. The good that a
teacher will do his students will be proportionate to
his belief in them. And let the teacher remember
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