“True success in education, as in everything else, is found in keeping the future life in view.”
Counsels to Parents, Teachers and Students, 21
Category: Principles of True Education
Scripture Song Resource
Memorizing scripture is an important part of True Education. One way to learn new verses is to sing scripture songs. Wayne Hooper’s Sing A Bible Verse is great resource for learning new scripture songs. Sing A Bible Verse is free printable sheet music for more than 300 original scripture songs. If you don’t have a musician in your home, you can find the CDs for these songs at Children’s Ministry Place. The CDs are also available at AdventSource.
Motivation Monday
“Parents, set apart a little time each day for the study of the Sabbath school lesson with your children. Give up the social visit if need be, rather than sacrifice the hour devoted to the lessons of sacred history. Parents as well as children will receive benefit from this study. Let the more important passages of Scripture connected with the lesson be committed to memory, not as a task, but as a privilege. Though at first the memory be defective, it will gain strength by exercise, so that after a time you will delight thus to treasure up the words of truth. And the habit will prove a most valuable aid to spiritual growth.”
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 137, 138.
Motivation Monday
“There is no virtue in ignorance, and knowledge will not necessarily dwarf Christian growth; but if you seek for it from principle, having the right object before you, and feeling your obligation to God to use your faculties to do good to others and promote his glory, knowledge will aid you to accomplish this end; it will help you to bring into exercise the powers 
which God has given you, and to employ them in his service. But, young men, if you gain ever so much knowledge, and yet fail to put that knowledge to a practical use, you fail of your object. If, in obtaining an education, you become so absorbed in your studies that you neglect prayer and religious privileges, and become careless and indifferent to the welfare of your souls, if you cease to learn in the school of Christ, you are selling your birthright for a mess of pottage. The object for which you are obtaining an education should not be lost sight of for a moment. It should be so to develop and direct your faculties that you may be more useful, and bless others to the extent of your ability. If by obtaining knowledge you increase your love of yourselves, and your inclination to excuse yourselves from bearing responsibilities, you are better without an education.”
Christian Education, 246-247
Motivation Monday
“There is no virtue in ignorance, and knowledge will not necessarily dwarf Christian growth; but if you seek for it from principle, having the right object before you, and feeling your obligation to God to use your faculties to do good to others and promote his glory, knowledge will aid you to accomplish this end; it will help you to bring into exercise the powers which God has given you, and to employ them in his service. But, young men, if you gain ever so much knowledge, and yet fail to put that knowledge to a practical use, you fail of your object. If, in obtaining an education, you become so absorbed in your studies that you neglect prayer and religious privileges, and become careless and indifferent to the welfare of your souls, if you cease to learn in the school of Christ, you are selling your birthright for a mess of pottage. The object for which you are obtaining an education should not be lost sight of for a moment. It should be so to develop and direct your faculties that you may be more useful, and bless others to the extent of your ability. If by obtaining knowledge you increase your love of yourselves, and your inclination to excuse yourselves from bearing responsibilities, you are better without an education.”
Christian Education, 246-247
Motivation Monday
“There is no virtue in ignorance, and knowledge will not necessarily dwarf Christian growth; but if you seek for it from principle, having the right object before you, and feeling your obligation to God to use your faculties to do good to others and promote his glory, knowledge will aid you to accomplish this end; it will help you to bring into exercise the powers which God has given you, and to employ them in his service. But, young men, if you gain ever so much knowledge, and yet fail to put that knowledge to a practical use, you fail of your object. If, in obtaining an education, you become so absorbed in your studies that you neglect prayer and religious privileges, and become careless and indifferent to the welfare of your souls, if you cease to learn in the school of Christ, you are selling your birthright for a mess of pottage. The object for which you are obtaining an education should not be lost sight of for a moment. It should be so to develop and direct your faculties that you may be more useful, and bless others to the extent of your ability. If by obtaining knowledge you increase your love of yourselves, and your inclination to excuse yourselves from bearing responsibilities, you are better without an education.”
Christian Education, 246-247
Beyond School-In-A-Box
When a family decides that True Education is their goal, they have chosen to move beyond a “school-in-a- box” approach to homeschooling. True Education is not just a stack of books and lesson plans to complete, it is a complete life focus, not just for the children, but the entire household.
The scope of True Education is much broader and deeper than any publisher’s curriculum outline. True Education is not just about conquering the multiplication table or learning a set of spelling rules. With True Education, there is not just a mind to fill, but also a character to shape, and a body to train for work and service for God- a complete education of the whole person.
Let’s not limit ourselves to what the table of contents in a textbook says we should know. True Education challenges us to strive for more than a perfect score on the SAT. It “embraces more than merely having a knowledge of books. It takes in everything that is good, virtuous, righteous, and holy. It comprehends the practice of temperance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love to God and to one another.” {CG 297}
Want to know learn more about True Education? Read the chapter 50 of Child Guidance, entitled, “What Comprises True Education”. You can read online at E.G. White Writings.
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