Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

memory. Listen to nothing it is not right for you to
know.
Those who have been in the habit of telling
everything they see and hear need to be converted
on this point. If those connected with the home see
any change made, they are not required to think
that the Lord has made them daily bulletins. Do not
think it your duty to carry everything you see and
hear to others. They will take it to their homes, and
comment upon it, and then pass the dish to
someone else. If, after consultation with the other
teachers, the matron makes some changes in the
home plans, these changes are told by those who
feel it no harm to pour forth everything that they
think they know. Children that are educated to
relate everything they see, which takes place at the
table and in the classes, will forfeit the confidence
of their teachers, by communicating to others their
parcel of nonsense.
In these matters silence is eloquence. You are
at the school to keep your observations to yourself,
unless they are of such a character that they should
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