Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene - Ellen G. White

teacher whose physical powers are already
enfeebled by disease or overwork, should pay
special attention to the laws of life. He should take
time for recreation. He should not take upon
himself responsibilities outside of his school-work,
which will so tax him, physically or mentally, that
his nervous system will be unbalanced; for in this
case he will be unfitted to deal with minds, and
cannot do justice to himself or to his pupils.
Our institutions of learning should be provided
with every facility for instruction regarding the
mechanism of the human system. Students should
be taught how to breathe, how to read and speak so
that the strain will not come on the throat and
lungs, but on the abdominal muscles. Teachers
need to educate themselves in this direction. Our
students should have a thorough training, that they
may enter upon active life with an intelligent
knowledge of the habitation which God has given
them. Teach them that they must be learners as
long as they live. And while you are teaching them,
remember that they will teach others. Your lessons
will be repeated for the benefit of many more than
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