Those who would make a success in the education of the youth must take them as they are, not as they ought to be nor as they will be when they come from under their training. With dull scholars they will have a trial, and they must bear patiently with their ignorance. With sensitive, nervous students they must deal tenderly and very kindly, remembering that they are hereafter to meet their students before the judgment seat of Christ. A sense of their own imperfections should constantly lead educators to cherish feelings of tender sympathy and forbearance for those who are struggling with the same difficulties. They may help their students, not by overlooking their defects, but by faithfully correcting wrong in such a manner that the one reproved shall be bound still closer to the teacher’s heart. {4T 420.1}

Dem som vil have held med at opdrage de unge, må tage dem som de er, ikke som de burde være, eller som de vil blive når de kommer væk fra deres oplæring. Med tungnemme elever vil de få en prøvelse og de må være tålmodige med deres uvidenhed. De må behandle følsomme, nervøse studerende med ømhed og meget venligt og huske på at de er her for deres studier før Kristi domstol. En fornemmelse af deres egen ufuldkommenheder bør hele tiden få lærere til at bevare øm forståelse og overbærenhed for dem, som kæmper med de samme vanskeligheder. De kan hjælpe deres studerende, ikke ved at overse deres mangler, men ved at trofast rette fejl, på en sådan måde at en irettesat skal bindes endnu tættere til lærerens hjerte.