Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

some school privilege than to be ruled out. But
there is the precept, a child shall have no teacher
but the parents until it is eight or ten years old; that
settles it....
Sister White: Well, if parents have not got it in
them you might just as well stop where you are.
Therefore, we have got to make provision, because
there are a good many parents that have not taken it
upon themselves to discipline themselves....
I believe that the people about here that have
advantages can each do a little something to
support a school for the others. I am willing to do
it. I do not think that should be a consideration that
should come in at all. [We talk of] “the expense,”
“the expense,” “the expense”—it is nothing at all to
have the weight of a thimbleful of expense.
Setting a Pattern
W. C. White: As my children have been
mentioned, I should like to say a word about this.
My interest in the outcome of this interview is not
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