Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

All the arts are to come into the education of
the students. Even in the school at Avondale there
are too many studies taken by the students. The
youth should not be left to take all the studies they
shall choose, for many will be inclined to take
more than they can carry, and if they do this, they
can not possibly come from the school with a
thorough knowledge of each study. There should
be less study of books, and greater painstaking
effort made to obtain that knowledge which is
essential for practical life. The youth are to learn
how to work interestedly and intelligently, that,
wherever they are, they may be respected because
they have a knowledge of those arts which are so
essential for practical life. In the place of being day
laborers under an overseer, they are to strive to be
masters of their trades, to place themselves where
they can command wages as good carpenters,
printers, or as educators in agricultural work.
If the brain is overtaxed by taking too many
studies, the student is robbed of physical health.
This can only be secured to him by the exercise of
the muscles. The human machine must be taxed
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