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

them on the floor. Then He placed the Bible in
their hands, saying, “You have little knowledge of
this Book. You know not the Scriptures nor the
power of God. When you have taken your students
through the course of study you have followed in
the past, they will have to unlearn much that they
have learned, and this they will find very difficult
to do. Objectionable ideas have taken root in their
minds, like weeds in a garden, and some will never
be able to distinguish between right and wrong.
The good and the evil have been intermingled in
your work. Doctrines containing a little truth, but
with which are woven the opinions and sayings and
doings of men, are repeated. The youth will never
know the way of life so long as they depend on
such instruction.”
By every teacher in our schools the only true
God is to be uplifted. The prayer of Christ for His
disciples was: “I have glorified Thee on the earth: I
have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to
do. And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with
Thine own self with the glory which I had with
Thee before the world was. I have manifested Thy
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