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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 48.

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Education

EDUCATION in the first years of a child's life should not be a forcing process; it should be a directing, a leading, of the developing powers. Mrs. Jacobi truly says that the beginning of a child's education under the present system, in the majority of schools, is conducted as though literature were to be the pursuit of its lifetime. The primary motive of education is to develop all the faculties with which nature has endowed the child, and the education of the hands is as important as the education of the brain.—Sel.