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

well as in literary lines, is the education that our
youth should seek to obtain. Agriculture will open
resources for self-support. Other lines of work,
adapted to different students, may also be carried
on. But the cultivation of the land will bring a
special blessing to the workers. We should so train
the youth that they will love to engage in the
cultivation of the soil.
“There should be opened to the youth means
whereby many may, while attending school, learn
the trade of carpentry. Under the guidance of
experienced workmen, carpenters who are apt to
teach, patient, and kind, the youth should be taught
how to build substantially and economically.
Cottages and other buildings essential to the
various lines of schoolwork are to be erected by the
students themselves. These buildings should not be
crowded close together, or built near the school
buildings proper. In the management of the
schoolwork, small companies should be formed,
who should be taught to carry a full sense of their
responsibility. All these things cannot be
accomplished at once, but we can begin to work in
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