Balancing Education with Religious Principles and Physical Vigor

Pendidikan yang tidak diseimbangkan dengan prinsip-prinsip agama atau yang mengabaikan nilai-nilai spiritual akan mengakibatkan penurunan moral, mental, dan fisik yang sangat mengkhawatirkan5T 586.3+1. Penurunan standar dalam institusi pendidikan sering kali bermula dari kecenderungan hati untuk mencari kemudahan egois dan mengabaikan peraturan yang telah ditetapkanLLM 432.4+1. Ketika pendidikan populer tidak lagi menanamkan pengendalian diri dan penghormatan kepada Tuhan, hal itu justru dapat menjadi kutukan bagi generasi mudaPOSDAI 75. Selain itu, kebiasaan hidup yang salah, seperti pemuasan nafsu makan dan kurangnya aktivitas fisik, merupakan penyebab utama dari kelemahan mental serta kemerosotan daya tahan tubuh yang terjadi saat iniCW 103.1+1. Jika elemen agama dan kerja praktis dikeluarkan dari sistem pendidikan, maka hasilnya adalah perkembangan karakter yang tidak seimbang dan dangkalFE 228.1+1.

...ourage, it gave you! Your passion is to exalt education, but I speak the truth when I tell you that education, unless balanced by religious principles, will be a power for evil. I am not willing to look on passively and see you go as others have gone in the fatal delusion tha...— 5T 586.3 (1889)

...to the comforts and conveniences of life, even to sanitary matters and to the treatment of disease, the decline in physical vigor and power of endurance is alarming. It demands the attention of all who have at heart the well-being of their fellow men— CD 441.1 (1938)

..., there exists an unparalleled spirit of insubordination and recklessness in the rising generation; mental and moral degeneracy are well-nigh universal. Popular education does not remedy the evil. The lax discipline in many institutions of learning ha...— POSDAI 75 (1969)

...le, never disregard one principle, that has been interwoven with the upbuilding of the institution. The dropping down is easy enough; the disregard of regulations is natural to the heart inclined to selfish ease and gratification. It is much easier to tear down than to bui...— CT 481.3 (1913)

The wretched condition of the world at the present time has been presented before me. Since Adam's fall the race has been degenerating. Some o...— 3T 139.1 (1885)

...falling so far below anything like the schools of the prophets, I am distressed beyond measure. The physical exercise was marked out by the God of wisdom. Some hours each day should be devoted to useful education in lines of work that will help the students in learning the duties of practical life, which are essential for all our youth. But this has been dropped out, and amusements introduced, which simply give exercise, without being any special blessing in doing...— FE 228.1 (1923)