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

that the mind can assimilate an oversupply of
mental food, and it is as great a sin to overload the
mind as it is to overload the digestive organs.
To those who are desirous of becoming
efficient laborers in the cause of God I would say,
If you are putting an undue amount of labor on the
brain, thinking you will lose ground unless you
study all the time, you should at once change your
views and your course. Unless greater care is
exercised in this respect, there are many who will
go down to the grave prematurely.
In regulating the hours for sleep, there should
be no haphazard work. Students should not form
the habit of burning the midnight oil and taking the
hours of the day for sleep. If they have been
accustomed to doing this at home, they should
correct the habit, going to bed at a seasonable hour.
They will then rise in the morning refreshed for the
duties of the day. In our schools the lights should
be put out at half past nine.
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