Category Archives: Education

“…as an accountable and immortal creature, you are to regard all other kinds of improvement as subordinate to the culture of the heart; and…your acquisitions, if they are not sanctified by divine grace, will ultimately prove a curse to you rather … Continue reading →

“Next to your parents, your instructors, if they are faithful, are most actively engaged in the formation of your character, and they watch over you with a degree of solicitude inferior only to that which belongs to the parental relation. … Continue reading →

“While you profess to be a student, regard study as your main business; and make your amusement subordinate, and, so far as possible, subservient to it. Recollect that the period alloted to your education is comparatively short; and that every … Continue reading →

“There is no such thing as thinking by proxy, any more than breathing by proxy: intellectual acquisitions must be the fruit of intellectual labor; and whoever will not encounter the one, must be satisfied to remain destitute of the other.”

“I would have you, then, in the first place, bear in mind that the great object of your education is to enable you to bring into exercise the powers which God has given you in such a manner as shall … Continue reading →