Study and Practical Life—It is not well to crowd the mind with a class of studies that require intense application and exertion but that are not brought into use in the practical life. An education of this kind will be a loss to the student, for these studies take away his desire and inclination for the studies which would fit him for usefulness and enable him to fulfill his appointed responsibilities as laborers together with God to help those whom he should by precept and example assist to secure immortality.— Manuscript 15, 1898.{1MCP 195.1}

Studieliv og praktisk liv. - Det er ikke i orden at overdynge sindet med en slags studier der kræver intens flid og øvelser men ikke bruges i det praktiske liv. En uddannelse af denne slags vil være et tab for den studerende, for disse studier fratager hans ønske og tilbøjelighed for studier, der ville kunne gøre ham nyttig og sætte ham i stand til at bære bestemte ansvar som en Guds medarbejder, der hjælper dem, som han ved forskrift og eksempel, assisterer til at sikre evigt liv. - MS 15, 1898.