The Duty of Students to Their School by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1907

The Duty of Students to Their School

By F. G.

It is as much a duty of our school managers to fill our schools as it is to teach the children and young people when they are in the schools. There are hundreds and thousands of our boys and girls who do not appreciate the possibilities that lie in their lives. Their parents do not appreciate the importance of an education, and so they have not surrounded their children with an atmosphere of mental development. Such young people need to be awakened to the importance of securing an education that will qualify them for usefulness in life.

It is the duty, however, of the students of our schools to interest other young people in the matter of education. It passes without argument that young men and young women who put forth an effort to secure an education for themselves appreciate something of its value. Thus it is but natural and reasonable for them to enlist the interest of other young men and women in this same good work. As a matter of fact, the students in our schools can do more than the teachers of the schools and managers in filling our schools, if they would enter upon the work heartily.

There is no better missionary work that they can do. The importance of this work should be held before our students as we are closing our schools this year, that they may work earnestly not only to come to the school themselves at the opening of the next school year, but to bring many others with them. If our students have a real burden for souls in their hearts, they will appreciate this grand opportunity of doing good, and will enter heartily upon such a work as this. Too much emphasis can not be laid upon this valuable opportunity for the accomplishment of a good work by our young people.

F. G.