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

youth let them be wise and pitiful. Let them not
forget that these youth are in need of wholesome,
encouraging words and helpful deeds. Teachers,
treat your students as Christ’s children, whom He
wants you to help in every time of need. Make
friends of them. Give them practical evidence of
your unselfish interest in them. Help them over the
rough places. Patiently, tenderly, strive to win them
to Jesus. Eternity alone will reveal the results of
such effort.
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More harm than good results from the practice
of offering prizes and rewards. By it the ambitious
pupil is stimulated to greater effort. Those whose
mental powers are already too active for their
physical strength are urged on to grasp subjects too
difficult for the young mind. The examinations also
are a trying ordeal for pupils of this class. Many a
promising student has suffered severe illness,
perhaps death, as the result of the effort and
excitement of such occasions. Parents and teachers
should be on their guard against these dangers.
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