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Heart education is of far more importance than mere book-learning

"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life" Proverbs 4:23

Heart education is of far more importance than mere book-learning. 

It is well, even essential, to have a knowledge of the world in which we live; but if we leave eternity out of our reckoning, we shall make a failure from which we can never recover. 

A student may devote all his powers to acquiring knowledge; but unless he has a knowledge of God, unless he obeys the laws that govern his own being, he will destroy himself. 

By wrong habits, he loses the power of self-appreciation; he loses self-control. He can not reason correctly about matters that concern him most deeply. 

He is reckless and irrational in his treatment of mind and body. Through his neglect to cultivate right principles, he is ruined both for this world and for the world to come. 

If the youth understood their own weakness, they would find in God their strength. 

If they seek to be taught by Him, they will become wise in His wisdom, and their lives will be fruitful of blessing to the world. 

But if they give up their minds to mere worldly and speculative study, and thus separate from God, they will lose all that enriches life. 

It is by the youth and children of today that the future of society is to be determined, and what these youth and children shall be depends upon the home. 

To the lack of right home training may be traced the larger share of the disease and misery and crime that curse humanity. 

If the home life were pure and true, if the children who went forth from its care were prepared to meet life’s responsibilities and dangers, what a change would be seen in the world!

Source : https://egwwritingsdotorg/read?panels=p13940dot674&index=0

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