Mothers should let little ones play in open air. Teach them from nature. Books may be used later. Let them also learn, even in their earliest years, to be useful.
The love of pleasure is one of the most dangerous, because it is one of the most subtle of the many temptations that assail the children and youth in the cities.
There is a refining, subduing influence in nature that should be taken into account in selecting the locality for a school.
While the Bible should hold the first place in the education of children and youth, the book of nature is next in importance.
The most effective way to teach the heathen who know not God, is through his works.
…cultivation of the soil is good work for children and youth. It brings them into direct contact with nature and nature’s God.
Never can the proper education be given to the youth…unless they are separated a wide distance from the cities.
The natural and the spiritual are to be combined in the studies of our schools.
Testomonies for the Church vlume 6:
This land is not to be occupied with buildings except to provide the facilities essential for the teachers and students of the school. This land about the school is to be reserved as the school farm. It is to become a living parable to the students. The students are not to regard the school land as a common thing, but are to look upon it as a lessonbook open before them which the Lord would have them study.
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R&H 09-01-1904
A small building should be put up, in which the students can be taught how to care for one another in times of sickness.
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Pacific Union Recorder 09-23-1909
It will be a great advantage to raise on our own school land a large part at least of the fruits, grains, and vegetables that will be necessary for those in the institution…..At Angwin’s there are great advantages for us healthwise. The place is elevated, but is not too high. I found that the air was bracing, and that I could breathe freely. There is an abundance of clear, pure water, sufficient for all purposes.
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Talks and Sermons:
As soon as possible a printing press should be connected with our school, in order to educate in this line. Tent making also should be taken hold of. Buildings should be erected, and masonry should be learned. There are also many things which the lady students may be engaged in. There is cooking, dressmaking, and gardening to be done. Strawberries should be planted, plants and flowers cultivated. This the lady students may be called out of doors to do. Thus they may be educated to useful labor. Thoughtful, necessary work is essential for all to have to prepare them to be missionaries.
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SPTB17B (about Loma Linda)
“There is danger of our becoming too narrow. These many little houses close together across the railroad do not look well. If we can get land, and have room, so as not to build any more in that way, it will be better.
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10 OM
I have seen representations of several locations in high altitudes that should be secured for sanitarium purposes.
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11 OM
All through the mountains there were little valleys where families might locate and have a few acres of land for a garden or orchard.
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Madison was about 400 acres. Avondale was about 1,500 acres. Loma Linda was 76 acres, and later 87 acres then later 47 acres adjoining it were purchased. New England Sanitarium had 40 acres, but was in the middle of a state park of 3,500 acres. Paradise Valley Sanitarium had 20 acres. Huntsville (Oakwood College) had more than 300 acres. Sydney Sanitarium 70 acres. Pacific Union College 1,600 acres. San Fernando 10 acres. Berrien Springs (Andrews Univ.) 112 acres.
NOTE: It is often best to connect a school with sanitarium together, and to be away from the cities, but close enough to be able to evangelize there. The place should have a bit of a high elevation if possible, as that is good for health. Many of the properties purchased already had buildings, that with a little work, could be used for school buiildings or sanitarium buildings. Ellen White actually refused gifts of 100 nice, flat acres of land, saying that it was not suited for a school as there were no trees, and near a heavily travelled road.