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

young men, there should have been establishments
where they could learn different trades, which
would bring into exercise their muscles as well as
their mental powers.
If the youth can have but a one-sided education,
which is of the greater consequence, a knowledge
of the sciences, with all the disadvantages to health
and life, or a knowledge of labor for practical life?
We unhesitatingly answer, The latter. If one must
be neglected, let it be the study of books.
The Education of Girls
There are very many girls who are married and
have families who have but little practical
knowledge of the duties devolving upon a wife and
mother. They can read, and play upon an
instrument of music; but they cannot cook. They
cannot make good bread, which is very essential to
the health of the family. They cannot cut and make
garments, for they have never learned how. They
regard these things as unessential, and in their
married life they are as dependent upon someone to
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