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

educational work, and reforms will be made that
will give our youth a training that is according to
the Lord’s plan of development.
Teacher, weed from your talks all that is not of
the highest and best quality. Keep before the
students those sentiments only that are essential.
Never should the physician, minister, or teacher
prolong his talks until the alpha is forgotten in
long-drawn-out assertions that are not of the least
benefit. When this is done, the mind is swamped
with a multitude of words that it cannot retain. Let
the talks given be short and right to the point. Let
the mind be kept sweet and pure, and open to
heaven’s first law, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy
neighbor as thyself.” (Luke 10:27) If those who act
a part in the training of the youth will leave many
things unsaid, and present before the students the
importance of the principles they must obey in
order to have eternal life, there will be seen a work
of true reform.
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