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… their natural appetites that their power of self-government seems gone. The lower passions of their nature have taken the reins, and that which should be …

… divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. As it has been presented to me, it is the purpose of our educational institutions …

An Unfailing Source of Instruction —Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book. Testimonies For The Church 6:185 .

Chapter 6—The Book of Nature

Parents should by their example encourage the formation of habits of simplicity, and draw their children away from an artificial to a natural life. The Signs of the Times, October 2, 1884 .

Parents are the natural guardians of their children, and they have a solemn responsibility to oversee their education and training.

Care and affection for dependent children removes the roughness from our natures, makes us tender and sympathetic, and has an influence to develop the nobler elements of our character. Testimonies for the Church 2:647 .

I have been shown that children who practice self-indulgence previous to puberty, or the period of merging into manhood and womanhood, must pay the penalty of nature's violated laws at that critical period.

Chapter 7—Practical Lessons from Nature's Book

Teach your children to be useful, to bear burdens according to their years; then the habit of laboring will become second nature to them, and useful work will never seem like drudgery. The Review and Herald, June 24, 1890 .