Ronel Kian S.

Cablinda Education for Pastors RGG TTh 3:00-4:30 PM

Read "Fundamentals of Christian Education" by Ellen White and read chapter 4 "Thoughts on
Christian Education".
Answer the following questions:
1. What have you learned from your reading?
In the development of a student, ample and equal attention must be given to all
areas of growth, mainly the physical, mental, and spiritual. An overemphasis on any of
these aspects deprives the children of the holistic and sanctified development they deserve.
The chapter also stresses the importance of leading by example in the cases of parents and
teachers. Selfless love must be the primary drive as they educate the little ones. Anything
other than Christ-like love and the parents and teachers will be accountable to the LORD
for their neglect in training up children the way they should go.

2. What questions came to your mind as you read this chapter

Why do even the most spiritually-devout Christian parents fail to raise children who
are developed in might, mind, and character?

3. What does God want you to do to become an effective Pastoral educator?

God wants me to be an educator who is wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove. An
educator who knows when to discipline and when to advocate on the student’s behalf. I am
also to be a teacher who nurtures independent, critical thinking in the young people,
catering to all areas of development: physical, mental, and spiritual. My classroom will be
a place where boys and girls become men and women, and men and women become
Christlike.

4. Write at least 10 Quotations/lines from your reading

1) No work ever undertaken by man requires greater care and skill than the proper
training and education of youth and children.
2) No work ever undertaken by man requires greater care and skill than the proper
training and education of youth and children… No work ever undertaken by man
requires greater care and skill than the proper training and education of youth and
children.
3) The training of children must be conducted on a different principle from that which
governs the training of irrational animals. The brute has only to be accustomed to
submit to its master; but the child must be taught to control himself.
4) So far as possible, every child should be trained to self-reliance.
5) A wise instructor will give special attention to the development of the weaker traits,
that the child may form a well-balanced, harmonious character.
6) He who seeks to have the individuality of his scholars merged in his own, so that
reason, judgment, and conscience shall be subject to his control, assumes an
unwarranted and fearful responsibility.
7) Those who train their pupils to feel that the power lies in themselves to become
men and women of honor and usefulness, will be the most permanently successful.
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8) …love is the best teacher.

9) Let it never be forgotten that the teacher must be what he desires his pupils to
become.
10) He who would control his pupils must first control himself.
11) The course of injudicious parents and teachers in stimulating the young mind by
flattery or fear, has proved fatal to many a promising pupil.
12) Little children should be permitted to run and play out of doors, enjoying the fresh,
pure air, and the life-giving sunshine.