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Counsels on Diet and Foods
818. Many young people will come to school who desire a training
in industrial lines. The industrial instruction should include the keeping
of accounts, carpentry, and everything that is comprehended in farming.
Preparation should also be made for teaching blacksmithing, painting,
shoemaking, cooking, baking, laundering, mending, typewriting, and
printing. Every power at our command is to be brought into this
training work, that students may go out equipped for the duties of
practical life.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:182, 1900
819. Connected with our sanitariums and schools there should be
cooking schools, where instruction is given on the proper preparation
of food. In all our schools there should be those who are fitted to
educate the students, both men and women, in the art of cooking.
Women especially should learn how to cook.—
Manuscript 95, 1901
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820. The students in our schools should be taught how to cook.
Let tact and skill be brought into this branch of education. With all
deceivableness of unrighteousness, Satan is working to turn the feet of
the youth into paths of temptation that lead to ruin. We must strengthen
and help them to withstand the temptations that are to be met on every
side regarding the indulgence of appetite. To teach them the science of
healthful living is to do missionary work for the Master.—
Testimonies
for the Church 7:113
821. Manual training is deserving of far more attention than it has
received. Schools should be established that, in addition to the highest
mental and moral culture, shall provide the best possible facilities for
physical development and industrial training. Instruction should be
given in agriculture, manufactures,—covering as many as possible of
the most useful trades,—also in household economy, healthful cookery,
sewing, hygienic dressmaking, the treatment of the sick, and kindred
lines.—
Education, 218, 1903
Faithfulness in Common Duties
822. Many of the branches of study that consume the student’s
time are not essential to usefulness or happiness; but it is essential for
every youth to have a thorough acquaintance with everyday duties. If
need be, a young woman can dispense with a knowledge of French
and algebra, or even of the piano; but it is indispensable that she learn