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

ut it does not take the place of efforts for selfimprovement.
He who realizes his own deficiencies
will spare no pains to reach the highest possible
standard of physical, mental, and moral excellence.
No one should have a part in the training of youth
who is satisfied with a lower standard.
An Effective Helper
The true teacher will try by precept and
example to win souls to Christ. He must receive the
truth in the love of it and let it cleanse his heart and
mold his life. Every teacher should be under the
full control of the Holy Spirit. Then Christ can
speak to the heart, and His voice is the voice of
love. And the love of God, received into the heart,
is an active power for good, quickening and
enlarging the mind and soul. With his own heart
warm with divine love, the teacher will lift up the
Man of Calvary, not to give the students a casual
glimpse, but to fasten their attention until Jesus
shall seem to them the “chiefest among ten
thousand,” and the One “altogether lovely.” (Song
of Solomon 5:10, 16)
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