Start Right!

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 8, 1910

This is the Message of the September-October Number of Christian Education

It is not enough to get students into school; the vital work really begins after they arrive. “Start Right” is, therefore, the key-note to the September-October number.

Some Titles of Articles

“Be Sure to Start Right”
“Make Them Feel at Home”
“The Sine Qua Non of Education”
“Choose a Vocation”
“How One Famous School Made a Successful Beginning”
“A Perennial Convention”
“Indispensables and Essentials”

Some Sentiments Expressed

“Ask yourself the questions: Why am I going to school? Why have I come to school? Is it because others come? Is it because I want a change from the routine of home duties? Is it because I think the social life will be more pleasant? Or is it because my parents wanted me to come,—because I am ‘sent’? Better any of these reasons than not have come at all; for it is possible that these motives, if motives they are, may be elevated and ennobled by contact with this new life.”

“The Christian student may as well expect to turn on the electric light in his room with the main current turned off at the switchboard, as to think of daily receiving power to think and act right without maintaining an unbroken connection with the dynamo of heaven, through prayer.”

“The first few days of each school year are the most important. At this time respect, co-operation, and confidence are largely established. Every one, regardless of position or rank, race or color, talent or accomplishment, should be treated with an equal degree of consideration. When this principle of justice is firmly founded, the petty jealousies, the unkind wrangles, in fact, most of the unpleasant discords of settling and starting, will vanish like the dainty dewdrops before the warm rays of the morning sun.”

“The ultimatum of public opinion in this generation has been that a child must be educated in books, at any cost. Any parent in the United States of America who has kept his child out of school till the age of eight, tells of the fact either apologetically or with the air of a hero, assuming whichever role will appeal the more strongly to the hearer. Whether or not the child could survive the process physically, has not usually been the chief consideration.”