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

it above the God of science.
Man is finite; there is no light in his wisdom.
His unaided reason can explain nothing in the deep
things of God, nor can he understand the spiritual
lessons that God has placed in the material world.
But reason is a gift of God, and His Spirit will aid
those who are willing to be taught. Man’s words, if
of any value, echo the words of God. In the
education of youth they should never take the place
of the divine word.
Cold, philosophical speculations and scientific
research in which God is not acknowledged are a
positive injury. And the evil is ag- gravated when,
as is often the case, books placed in the hands of
the young, accepted as authority and depended
upon in their education, are from authors avowedly
infidel. Through all the thoughts presented by these
men their poisonous sentiments are interwoven.
The study of such books is like handling black
coals; a student cannot be undefiled in mind who
thinks along the line of skepticism.
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