Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 34
Financial, Social, and Spiritual
Education
Low Tuition
We do not want a dark cloud to gather over us
in the form of a debt. We do not want our debt to
accumulate. In our schools in America, the price of
tuition for students has been set too low, and the
managers of the schools have become convinced
that even with proper economy, they could not
continue these low prices. After one or two terms
of school, a careful investigation has revealed to
them that the sum set was not sufficient to cover
expenses, that the tuition should be increased, thus
avoiding a discouraging debt. Far better let all the
students share in the expense, than allow the school
to bear the whole weight; for this throws upon the
managers of the institution on a continual suspicion
of miscalculation, want of economy, and wrong
planning. These debts are very discouraging to
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