Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

developed in proportion to the mental faculties.
This is essential to form an all-round education.
They will then be at home in any place. They
should be prepared to teach others how to build,
how to cultivate the soil. A man may have a
brilliant mind, he may be quick to catch ideas: but
this is of little value to him and to others if he has
no knowledge of practical work, if he does not
know how to put his ideas into execution. Such a
one is only half educated.
A teacher who has an intelligent knowledge of
the best methods and who can not only teach the
theory, but can show by example how things
should be done, will never be a drug on the market.
Young men should not always be as servants, who
must be told what to do, and who when one job is
done have no perception to look around and see
what more needs to be done. They should look the
situation squarely in the face, saying this will not
do. Unless I learn how to work, how to manage
difficult problems, how to wrestle with difficult
problems, I will be of no practical value. I must
and will rise. I will mount from the lowest to the
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