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

if all would give due consideration to the statement
of Christ, “Without Me ye can do nothing” (John
15:5), they would make different plans. Without
the vital principles of true religion, without the
knowledge of how to serve and glorify the
Redeemer, education is more harmful than
beneficial. When education in human lines is
pushed to such an extent that the love of God
wanes in the heart, that prayer is neglected, and
that there is a failure to cultivate the spiritual
attributes, it is wholly disastrous. It would be far
better to cease seeking to obtain an education, and
to recover your soul from its languishing condition,
than to gain the best of educations and lose sight of
eternal advantages. ...
I would not in any case counsel restriction of
the education to which God has set no limit. Our
education does not end with the advantages that
this world can give. Through all eternity the chosen
of God will be learners. But I would advise
restriction in following those methods of education
which imperil the soul and defeat the purpose for
which time and money are spent. Education is a
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