Let a few schools be started by those who are capable of teaching
the sciences. The science of architecture, for instance, is worthy
the attention of every student. It yields a great amount of real
pleasure to be able to understand the grand architectural designs of
those magnificent structures that are scattered over Europe and other
countries. 9:173.
Go to work and start some schools, go to school and study; have the
girls go, and teach them chemistry, so that they can take any of these
rocks and analyze them. The sciences can be learned without much
difficulty. I want to have schools to entertain the minds of the people
and draw {390} them out to learn the arts and sciences. Send the old
children to school, and the young ones also; there is nothing I would
like better than to learn chemistry, botany, geology, and mineralogy,
so that I could tell what I walk on, the properties of the air I
breathe, what I drink, etc. 16:170.
Let our teachers ask the Father, in the name of Jesus, to bestow upon
them and upon their scholars the Spirit of wisdom and intelligence from
heaven; ask for skill to control and ability to teach on the part of
the teacher, and willingness to be controlled and adaptability to be
taught on the part of the scholars. Let parents aid the teacher in his
labors, by seeing that their children attend school punctually, with a
proper supply of books, slates, pencils, etc., and permit not a good
diligent, faithful school-teacher to suffer for the common necessaries
of life, while he is laboring to educate and bless their children.
9:369.
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