Teach Children to Think by Ralph Tennal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

Teach Children to Think

By Ralph Tennal

You teach your children to use their hands, their tongues, their eyes, their feet, but have you ever thought that you neglect teaching them to use their brains? When children ask questions the answer to which they should know themselves, ask them a question, and let them use their own brains for themselves. The men who progress in the world are the men who think. When you tell a man to do something in a certain way, and he finds that way impossible or impracticable, but thinks out an alternative, look out for that man’s success. The man who always stands in the same place, or sits more likely, is the one who never thinks of other ways out of difficulties. God gave our children brains as well as hands. It is your duty to teach them to use both.—Ralph Tennal.