Shall the Education of Our Children Be Christian or Unchristian?

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1914

Shall the Education of Our Children Be Christian or Unchristian?

THIS is a question which every parent is obliged to decide sooner or later. There are only two kinds of schools, the Christian and the unchristian, just as there are only two classes of people at the Lord’s coming, represented by the sheep and the goats. President Harper of Elon College, North Carolina, thinks the secular school is a menace to the moral and spiritual interests of the young, and the magazine—“Christian Education” for January describes the still greater risk incurred by sending our boys and girls away from home to an unchristian institution. In the same number of Christian Education Mrs. E. G. White shows how thousands of skeptics are being made by philosophical speculation and scientific research in which God is not acknowledged. An editorial develops the idea that a student partakes, to some extent, of every teacher he meets, and finds it next to impossible to get rid of wrong instruction.

Other articles instruct parents and teachers on proper and improper punishment of children, and give many helpful ideas and illustrations of home school work. Also thirty children tell in rhyme how they each traded on five cents given them last spring, and increased it an average of thirty-sixfold for missions.