The educators of youth should maintain perfect self-control. To destroy one’s influence over a human soul through impatience or in order to maintain undue dignity and supremacy is a terrible mistake, for it may be the means of losing that soul for Christ. The minds of youth may become so warped by injudicious management that the injury done may never be entirely overcome. The religion of Christ should have a controlling influence on the education and training of the young. {1MCP 79.1}

(79) De unges lærere burde fastholde en fuldstændig selvkontrol. Ødelægger man ens indflydelse over et menneske, på grund af utålmodighed, eller for at fasteholde upassende værdighed og overhøjhed, er dette en frygtelig fejltagelse, for den kan være middel til at miste denne sjæl for Kristus. Unges tanker kan blive så omhyllet af skadelig ledelse at skaden aldrig helt kan overvindes. Kristi religion burde have en styrende indflydelse på unges opdragelse og oplæring.