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farming, in building, and in every other department, that the worker
may not labor in vain.—
Special Instruction on Educational Work 5
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608. Your means could not be used to better advantage than in
providing a workshop furnished with tools for your boys, and equal
facilities for your girls. They can be taught to love labor.—
The Health
Reformer, January 1, 1873
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609. Agriculture will open resources for self-support, and various
other trades also could be learned. This real, earnest work calls for a
strength of intellect as well as of muscle. Method and tact are required
even to raise fruits and vegetables successfully. And habits of industry
will be found an important aid to the youth in resisting temptation.
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Here is opened a field to give vent to their pent-up energies, that, if
not expended in useful employment, will be a continual source of trial
to themselves and to their teachers. Many kinds of labor adapted to
different persons may be devised. But the working of the land will
be a special blessing to the worker.... This knowledge will not be
a hindrance to the education essential for business or for usefulness
in any line. To develop the capacity of the soil requires thought and
intelligence.—
Special Instruction on Educational Work 15
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610. Agriculture should be advanced by scientific knowledge.—
The Signs of the Times, August 13, 1896
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611. Students sent to school to prepare to become evangelists,
ministers, and missionaries to foreign countries, have received the
idea that amusements are essential to keep them in physical health,
when the Lord has presented it before them that the better way is to
embrace in their education manual labor in place of amusement.... The
education to be obtained in felling trees, tilling the soil, as well as in
literature, is the education our youth should seek to obtain. Farther on
printing-presses should be connected with our schools. Tent making
also should be taken hold of. Buildings should be erected, and masonry
should be learned.
There are also many things which the lady students may engage in.
There is cooking, dressmaking, and gardening to be done. Strawberries
should be planted, and plants and flowers cultivated.
Bookbinding also and a variety of trades should be taken up. Thus
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the student will be putting into exercise bone, brain, and muscle, and
will also be gaining knowledge. The greatest curse of our schools is
idleness. It leads to amusements merely to please and gratify self. The