Quotes of Worker's Regarding

"EDUCATION:"
 

DAN HILTON: Parents, don't sacrifice your children on the altar of EDUCATION. (1979)

WILLIE JAMIESON: You rich professing people will have to learn to keep your hands out of your pockets and you EDUCATED people have to learn to keep your mouths shut! (Chelan, Washington Convention - 1954)

THAROLD SYLVESTER: It took 40 years in the back side of the desert to get the EDUCATION of Egypt out of Moses.

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HOME SCHOOLING
 
I had decided to home school our boys. The workers we had at the time and some "friends" said that it showed my lack of faith in God. They had absolutely no problem with having kids in a public school with all the ungodly things they teach, but as far as homeschooling or Christian school (which we had considered) they thought it was not good. When I showed them some of the books we were planning on using, they were not impressed that they were from a Christian publisher and said, "You have to watch these and be very careful because their beliefs are not right. They are from the 'world'." -- that their subtlety was dangerous and that I might not be strong enough to see it. I now know that they realized they were loosing me fast, and I might see the light if I read real Christian materials. God is good! He gave me a strong conviction about homeschooling, and through it I was liberated.

Here is an excerpt from a sermon by John Bruce at Special meetings at Saginaw on July 4th, 1927......This is an example of what our parents and grandparents learned and followed:

"........."That song we were singing this morning "Lord speak to me that I may speak," it's good to wait upon God so we may answer correctly. Not doing things in our own way or the way that looks right to us.

I had a father of a boy in high school to ask me, "What shall I do about him?" He is just at the right age to be very conceited, everything of the world seems to appeal to him and they are leaving their stamp on him.

What shall I do? Would you let him finish his education or would you take him out of school?

I told this father that high school is NOT a fit place for a boy and if he were a boy of mine, I would rather see him facing the world without an education than facing the world with high mindedness and conceit and without God in his life. I would like to see him like those UNLEARNED fisherman, John, Peter, and James, unlearned in worldly ways."

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