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

humble vocation until their hearts became tender,
... they would not be so prone to magnify their own
abilities, or seek to demonstrate that the wisdom of
an advanced education could take the place of a
sound knowledge of God. ...
The disciples of Christ are not called upon to
magnify men, but to magnify God, the Source of
all wisdom. Let educators give the Holy Spirit
room to do Its work upon human hearts. The
greatest Teacher is represented in the midst of us
by the Holy Spirit. However you may study,
though you may reach higher and still higher, and
occupy every moment of your probationary time in
the pursuit of knowledge, you will not become
complete. When time is over, you would have to
ask yourselves the question, What good have I
done to those who are in midnight darkness? To
whom have I communicated the knowledge of God
or even the knowledge of those things for which I
have spent so much time and money?
It will soon be said in heaven, “It is done.” “He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which
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