Under changed conditions, true education is still conformed to the Creator’s plan, the plan of the Eden school. Adam and Eve received instruction through direct communion with God; we behold “the light of the knowledge of His glory” in the face of Christ. [Sidenote: _The Teacher’s Aim_] The great principles of education are unchanged. “They stand fast forever and ever;”[30] for they are the principles of the character of God. To aid the student in comprehending these principles, and in entering into that relation with Christ which will make them a controlling power in the life, should be the teacher’s first effort and his constant aim. The teacher who accepts this aim is in truth a co-worker with Christ, a laborer together with God. _ILLUSTRATIONS_ “_Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning_” _The Education of Israel_ “THE LORD ALONE DID LEAD HIM; HE INSTRUCTED HIM, HE KEPT HIM AS THE APPLE OF HIS EYE” The system of education established in Eden centered in the family. Adam was “the son of God,”[31] and it was from their Father that the children of the Highest received instruction. Theirs, in the truest sense, was a family school. [Sidenote: _The Family School_] In the divine plan of education as adapted to man’s condition after the fall, Christ stands as the representative of the Father, the connecting link between God and man; He is the great teacher of mankind. And He ordained that men and women should be His representatives. The family was the school, and the parents were the teachers. [Sidenote: _Conditions_] The education centering in the family was that which prevailed in the days of the patriarchs. For the schools thus established, God provided the conditions most favorable for the development of character. The people who were under His direction still pursued the plan of life that He had appointed in the beginning. Those who departed from God built for themselves cities, and, congregating in them, gloried in the splendor, the luxury, and the vice that make the cities of to-day the world’s pride and its curse. But the men who held fast God’s principles of life dwelt among the fields and hills. They were tillers of the soil, and keepers of flocks and herds; and in this free, independent life, with its opportunities for labor and study and meditation, they learned of God, and taught their children of His works and ways. [Sidenote: _The Training in the Wilderness_]