我们努力在学校中抑制一切类似偏袒、依恋、求偶的事。我们已告诉学生们，我们不愿让第一根这种线织入他们的学业中。在这一点上，我们坚如磐石。我告诉他们，他们必须抛弃一切在校恋爱的想法。年轻女士们必须保守自己与同性交往，年轻男士们也必须这样做。学校是以大代价建起来的，无论光阴还是人力都是如此，为要使学生们能获得一种全面教育，能获得农业知识、普通教育学科的知识，最重要的，关于上帝之道的知识。{PC 88.1}
主已指示我看到的那些在家庭生活中没有受到适当训练，不认为必需作为家庭集体的成员来使用自己的脑力、体力和聪明才智的人，总是把秩序和纪律看作是不必要的限制和严厉。主已再三以清晰的思路将此事呈现在我面前。必须仔细挑选教师。在任命教师上不可随便。那些花费多年去学习，却没有获得必要的教育来使自己适合以主所规划的路线去教导他人的人，不应在我们的学校作教师。他们需要受教知道真正全面教育的基本原则。{PC 88.2}
我们生活在严肃时期，我们的学校之所以有这么多的失败，是因为老师们疏于持守主的道路。有的教师感到了负担，承担起了责任。有的却做表面工作。他们没能看出这种不足的可悲影响已在他们学生的言行中表现出来。这种影响抵消了那些以达到基督教教育的高标准为目标的敬畏上帝的教师所寻求的影响。{PC 88.3}
我巴不得我们学校的教师都是上帝所拣选和指定的。生灵会因自称基督徒教师者的粗心工作而沦丧，教师需要天天受教于上帝，否则就不适合受托的岗位。需要这样的教师：他们会努力清除自己遗传的和养成的犯错倾向，愿意取得一致，亲自负起顺从的轭，从而给学生们树立榜样。这种教师对上帝和所交往之同胞的责任感会使他们成为行道的人，听从当如何行事为人的劝勉。{PC 88.4}
上帝要每一个人对环绕自己心灵的影响负责，既为了自己，也为了他人。祂呼吁男女青年保持严格的节制，本着良心运用他们身心的能力。他们只有藉着殷切地利用自己的机会，聪明地用自己的才能来荣耀上帝，造福同胞，他们的才干才会得到发展。{PC 88.5}
知道什么是思想、心灵与身体方面清洁的构成要素乃是最高的教育。使徒保罗在写给提摩太的信中归纳他所能取得的成就说：“要保守自己清洁”(提前5:22)。上帝的儿女决不可显出不洁的思想或行动。身体被描绘为圣灵的殿。一切鼓励和最丰盛的福分，摆在战胜邪恶行为的人面前，但最可怕的刑罚，也必落在那些玷污身体和灵魂的人身上。{PC 89.1}
学生们和教师们，心地纯洁的人有福了——清心的人，是现在有福了，而不是在将来。“清心的人有福了，因为他们必得见上帝”(太5:8)是的，他们将像摩西一样，得以看见那不能看见的主。他们不仅在今生，而且在来生，都保证获得最丰盛的福分。{PC 89.2}
要避免刺激大脑。太多的学习会刺激大脑，使更多血液流往大脑，结果无疑会导致败坏。大脑不能过度兴奋而不产生不纯洁的想法和行动。整个神经系统都受到影响，而这导致不纯洁。身心能力被败坏，圣灵的殿受到污染。罪恶的行为得以传染，结果难以预料。在这个问题上我不得不坦率直言。{PC 89.3}
均衡地使用身心的能力会防止不洁的思想和行为倾向。教师们应当明白这一点。他们应当教导学生们：不洁的思想和行为取决于他们学习的方式。尽责的行为有赖于尽责的思想。从事农业劳动和各种劳作能够极好地防止用脑不当。男女成人或儿童若不使用上帝所赐的全部能力，就不能保持健康，不能本着良心遵守上帝的诫命，也不能爱上帝为至上并爱人如己。{PC 89.4}
许多人已蒙上帝赋予资格，可以藉着奉献他们的能力用于荣耀上帝来从事出色的工作，他们却成就得很少，因为他们尝试得很少。成千上万来到世上的人，经过此生好像没有明确的生活目标，没有标准要达到。这种人必得到与他们的行为相称的报酬。健康和清洁的良心会伴随着那些忠心作工、始终考虑上帝荣耀的人。有许多人只是支离破碎的人。在基督里才看到基督徒品格的完全。祂是我们的模范。祂的生活不是懒散安逸的生活。祂活着不是为了取悦自己。祂是无穷上帝的儿子，可是祂却与祂父亲一起从事木匠行业的工作。作为家庭的一员，祂忠心地尽了自己的本分，帮助养家。{PC 89.5}
人人都能利用自己的才干从事上帝的服务。上帝只要求他们尽力而为。那些研究基督的生活并与祂一同负轭的人，不会只用大脑，而会推断因果，且会利用人体机器的每一部分。主的设计是有益的劳作应当构成每一个人生活的一部分。{PC 89.6}
正在席卷我们世界的腐败洪潮乃是误用和滥用人体机器的结果。男人、女人和儿童都应受教亲手作工。这样大脑就不会过劳以致损害整个机体。光阴是一种天资，应当予以聪明地利用。声音是一种天资，应当用来传达会使人纯净、圣洁、文雅的知识。舌头应当受教育以一种会尊上帝为大的方式讲话。“主啊，增加我的信心，”必成为上帝真儿女的祈祷。“救我脱离邪恶的思想和乖僻的行为。”这样他就能有胆魄说：“看哪!上帝是我的拯救;我要倚靠祂，并不惧怕。因为主耶和华是我的力量，是我的诗歌，祂也成了我的拯救”(赛12:2)。基督徒品格的完全是可能的。如何实现呢?“你们在祂里面得以完全”(西2:10钦定本)。{PC 90.1}
(来自保尔森医生的选集)
Extracts from a Recent Communication on Schools By Mrs. E. G. White
We have labored hard to keep in check everything in the school like favoritism, attachments, and courting. We have told the students that we would not allow the first thread of this to be interwoven with their school work. On this point we were as firm as a rock. I told them that they must dismiss all idea of forming attachments while at school. The young ladies must keep themselves to themselves, and the young gentlemen must do the same. The school was established at a great expense, both of time and labor, to enable students to obtain an all-round education, that they might gain knowledge of agriculture, a knowledge of the common branches of education, and above all, a knowledge of the word of God.?{PC 88.1}
Those whom the Lord has presented to me as not being properly trained in the home life, who have not thought it necessary to use the powers of their mind and their physical strength and ingenuity as members of the home firm, will always look upon order and discipline as needless restraint and severity. Again and again the Lord has presented this matter before me in clear lines. The teachers must be carefully picked. No haphazard work must be done in the appointment of teachers. Those who have devoted years to study, and yet have not gained the education essential to fit them to teach others, in the lines the Lord has marked out, should not be connected with our schools as educators. They need to be taught the first principles of true, all-around education.?{PC 88.2}
We are living in solemn times, and the reason why there are so many failures in our schools is because teachers neglect to keep the way of the Lord. Some teachers feel the burden and carry the load of responsibility. Others do surface work. They fail to see that the woeful influence of this deficiency is seen in the words and deportment of their students. This influence counter-works the influence that God-fearing teachers, who aim to meet the high standard of Christian education, seek.?{PC 88.3}
I would that the teachers in our schools could be of God’s selection and appointment. Souls will be lost because of the careless work of professedly Christian teachers, who need to be taught of God day by day, else they are unfit for the position of trust. Teachers are needed who will strive to weed out their inherited and cultivated tendencies to wrong, who will come into line, wearing themselves the yoke of obedience, and thus giving an example to the students. The sense of duty to their God, and to their fellow-beings, with whom they associate, will lead such teachers to become doers of the word, and to heed counsel as to how they should conduct themselves.?{PC 88.4}
God holds every one responsible for the influence that surrounds his soul, on his own account, and on the account of others. He calls upon young men and young women to be strictly temperate and conscientious in the use of their faculties of mind and body. Their capabilities can be developed only by the diligent use and?wise appropriation of their powers to the glory of God and the benefit of their fellow-men.?{PC 88.5}
To know what constitutes purity of mind, soul, and body is the highest class of education. Paul the apostle sums up in his letter to Timothy the attainments possible for him, by saying, “Keep thyself pure.” Impurity of thought or action will never be seen in the child of God. The body is represented as the temple of the Holy Spirit. Every encouragement and the richest blessings are held up before the overcomers of evil practices, but the most fearful penalties are laid upon those who profane the body and defile the soul.?{PC 89.1}
Students and teachers, Blessed are the pure in heart - now; not, Blessed will be the pure in heart. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Yes, as did Moses, they shall endure the seeing of Him who is invisible. They have the assurance of the richest blessings, both in this life and in the life that is to come.?{PC 89.2}
Avoid exciting the brain. Too much study stimulates the brain and increases the flow of blood to it. The sure result of this is depravity. The brain cannot be unduly excited without producing impure thoughts and actions. The whole nervous system is affected, and this leads to impurity. The physical and mental powers are depraved, and the temple of the Holy Spirit is defiled. The evil practices are communicated, and the consequences cannot be estimated. I am compelled to speak plainly on this subject.?{PC 89.3}
The proportionate taxation of the powers of mind and body will prevent the tendency to impure thoughts and actions. Teachers should understand this. They should teach students that pure thoughts and actions are dependent on the way in which they conduct their studies. Conscientious actions are dependent on conscientious thinking. Exercise in agricultural pursuits, and in the various branches of labor is a wonderful safeguard against undue brain taxation. No man, woman, or child who fails to use all the powers God has given him can retain his health. He cannot conscientiously keep the commandments of God. He cannot love God supremely and his neighbor as himself.?{PC 89.4}
Many whom God has qualified to do excellent work by giving them powers to use to his glory, accomplish little because they attempt little. Thousands who come into the world pass through life as though they had no definite object for which to live, no standard to reach. Such will obtain a reward proportionate to their works. Health and a clear conscience will attend those who work faithfully keeping the glory of God in view. There are many who are mere fragments of men. In Christ is seen the perfection of Christian character. He is our Pattern. His life was not a life of indolence or ease. He lived not to please Himself. He was the Son of the infinite God, yet He worked at the carpenter’s trade with His father. As a member of the home firm, He faithfully acted His part in helping to support the family.?{PC 89.5}
All are capable of using their talents in God’s service. God asks them only to do their best. Those who study the life of?Christ and yoke up with Him, will not use the brain only, but will reason from cause to effect, and will use every part of the human machinery. The Lord designs that useful labor shall compose a part of every man’s life.?{PC 89.6}
The flood of corruption that is sweeping over our world is the result of the misuse and abuse of the human machinery. Men, women, and children should be educated to labor with their hands. Then the brain will not be overtaxed, to the detriment of the whole organism. Time is a talent, to be wisely employed. The voice is a talent, to be used in communicating knowledge that will make men pure, holy, and refined. The tongue should be educated to speak in such a manner that God will be magnified. “Lord, increase my faith,” will be the prayer of the true child of God. “Deliver me from evil thoughts and perverse actions.” Thus he is enabled to say with boldness, “Behold, God is my salvation: I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.” Completeness of Christian character is possible. How? - “We are complete in Him.”?{PC 90.1}
(From Doctor Paulson’s Collection)
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