What does EGW write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Education and Gardening"
Answer
Gardening is a valuable educational tool that teaches children patience, care, and obedience to the laws of nature while also promoting their character development. By preparing the soil and removing weeds, they symbolically learn to banish bad habits from their lives and recognize God's work in the growth process. This practical activity serves as a welcome change from theoretical instruction and strengthens both physical and mental health.
Spiritual Lessons from Gardening
Let the houses of our people be placed as far as possible outside the cities, so that the children have land to cultivate. It is good to give each person a piece of land as his own. When you teach them how to prepare a garden, how to ready the soil for sowing, and how important it is to keep the garden free of weeds, you teach them how important it is to keep unsightly, harmful practices out of life. Teach them to suppress bad habits just as they suppress weeds in their gardens.
Character Building through Contact with Nature
The attention required when transplanting, so that not even a single root fiber is cramped or misplaced, the care of young plants, pruning and watering... teach not only important lessons about character development, but the work itself is a means of development. By cultivating care, patience, attention to detail, and obedience to laws, it provides a highly essential training.
The Miracle of Growth
Tell your children about the wondrous power of God. When they study the great lesson book of nature, God will impress their senses. The farmer plows his land and sows his seed, but he cannot make the seed grow. He must rely on God to do what no human power can... When children are told of the work God does for the seed, they learn the mystery of growth in grace.
Gardening as a Balance to Study
Work in the garden and field will be a pleasant change from the tiring routine of abstract lessons, which the youthful spirit should never be confined to. For the nervous child or teenager who finds classroom instruction from books exhausting and hard to remember, it will be especially valuable. Health and happiness lie for them in the study of nature.
- Character building in nature
- Practical education garden
- Growth in grace lessons
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