Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Chapter 38—Balance in Education (Part 2) Greatest Value Is to Build Character—The students [in the Avondale school] work hard and faithfully. They are gaining in strength of nerve and in solidity as well as activity of muscles. This is the proper education which will bring forth from our schools youngContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
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Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Chapter 37—Principles of Study and Learning (Part 2) Trivial Matters Enfeeble the Mind—The student who, in the place of the broad principles of the Word of God, will accept common ideas and will allow the time and attention to be absorbed in commonplace, trivial matters, will find his mind willContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You that we can share Your love to those around us. With the right motives, we can be used of Your Holy Spirit to be a blessing. Thank You for the privilege of prayer and for knowing that through the name of Your Son we may expectContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Chapter 36—Principles of Motivation (Part 2) Actions Reveal Motives—Actions reveal principles and motives. The fruit borne by many who claim to be plants in the Lord’s vineyard shows them to be but thorns and briers. A whole church may sanction the wrong course of some of its members, but thatContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Success Demands Aim—Success in any line demands a definite aim. He who would achieve true success in life must keep steadily in view the aim worthy of his endeavor. Such an aim is set before the youth of today.—Education, 262 (1903). Should Aim as High as Possible—The specific place appointedContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Chapter 35—The Influence of Perception (Part 3) Environment Influences—The more the patient can be kept out of doors, the less care will he require. The more cheerful his surroundings, the more hopeful will he be. Shut up in the house, be it ever so elegantly furnished, he will grow fretfulContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”
Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1
Section 8—Guiding Principles in Education Chapter 35—The Influence of Perception (Part 2) Increasing Perfection Increases Perception—The nearer man approaches to moral perfection, the keener are his sensibilities, the more acute is his perception of sin, and the deeper his sympathy for the afflicted.—The Great Controversy, 570 (1911). Grief Dimmed Mary’s Perception—Then she turned away, even fromContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality, vol. 1”