The students’ employment and amusements should have been regulated with reference to physical law and should have been adapted to preserve to them the healthy tone of all the powers of body and mind. Then a practical knowledge of business could have been obtained while their literary education was being gained. Students at school should have had their moral sensibilities aroused to see and feel that society has claims upon them and that they should live in obedience to natural law so that they can, by their existence and influence, by precept and example, be an advantage and blessing to society. It should be impressed upon the youth that all have an influence that is constantly telling upon society to improve and elevate or to lower and debase. The first study of the young should be to know themselves and how to keep their bodies in health. {3T 142.1}

De studerendes beskæftigelse og fornøjelser bør styres med henblik på fysiske love og burde afpasses så de bevarer en sundhed i hele legemet og i alle sindets kræfter. Så kunne en praktisk kundskab opnås medens deres boglige uddannelse fås. Studerende i skolen kunne have haft deres moralske kræfter vækket for at se det samfund som gør krav på dem og at de burde leve i lydighed til naturlige love så de, ved deres tilstedeværelse og indflydelse, ved forskrift og eksempel, kan være til gavn og velsignelse for samfundet. Det burde være indprentet i de unge at alle har en indflydelse der konstant virker på samfundet så det forbedres og ophøjes eller at fornedres og forringes. De unges første bestræbelse bør være at kende sig selv og vide hvordan de holder sig sunde.