Author: qodeshruach

PRACTICAL SUBJECTS FOR THE CURRICULUM “The students are in our schools for a special training, to become acquainted with all lines of work, that, should they go out as missionaries, they could be self-reliant and able, through their educated ability, to furnish themselves with necessary conveniences and facilities.” (T., Vol. 6, p. 208). “Studies should […]

EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES “Before we carry the message of present truth in all its fullness to other countries, we must first break every yoke. We must come into the line of true education walking in the wisdom of God, and not in the wisdom of the world. God calls for messengers who will be true reformers. […]

SOME EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS The condition of the Protestant denominations in 1844 is illustrated by the five foolish virgin. When the midnight cry was given in the spring of that year, most of the leaders of these denominations took their stand against it. During the days of preparation, they had failed “to understand […]

SELECTING AND TRAINING TEACHERS Undoubtedly, more failures have come to educational reforms and to schools, through the inability of the founders to select teachers in sympathy with Christian education, and who have the ability to teach the essential branches as directed by the angels who wait to co-operate in the teaching of every class, than […]

TRAINING MISSIONARIES TO BE SELF-SUPPORTING–A LAYMEN’S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT. It was the divine plan that the midnight cry and the third angel’s message should be carried to every nation, kindred, tongue and people. God wanted an army trained to carry forth this practical religion to a world which had been educated away from the gospel order […]

STUDENT SELFGOVERNMENT AND CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY. INDIVIDUALITY, ORIGINALITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF thought and action on the part of the student are in the end destroyed by the Papal system of education and other systems derived from it. This system is intended by its promoters to destroy these vital elements of character in order to make the […]

MANUAL LABOR DISPLACED BY ATHLETICS, SPORTS AND GAMES No school can successfully maintain manual labor studies in its curriculum on an equality with other studies unless the purpose of God for such a practical training is recognized by both teachers and students. And when the purpose is recognized, the love, interest and enthusiasm generated by […]

MANUAL TRAINING AND THE PRACTICAL IN EDUCATION The times demand an education which will produce men and women capable of doing things. The Papal system divorces learning from doing and disqualifies men and women for giving the final warning to the world. God stirred every denomination, prior to 1844, to put practical Christian education within […]

SIMPLICITY IN BUILDINGS REFORM IN EDUCATION INCLUDES THE BUILDINGS in which aneducational institution is housed. The spirit of centralization is a necessary feature of the Papacy, and associated with the Papal educational system of mediaeval Europe there is usually found a certain characteristic form of buildings– buildings of the monastic order, dark, dingy cloisters, with […]