Ellen White

Education is the most important and most noble of human achievements. All other activities have their foundation in education.” Education is so important that it will continue even in eternity. It enables humans to achieve their fullest personal, spiritual, mental, social, and physical potentials.” The ability of being educated is what sets apart humans from animals. Education transforms an individual and allows themselves to effect change in their life.
“The word education comes from the Latin educare, to draw out. In a broad sense it means not only to elicit creative thought and knowledge from the student, but to draw humankind out of the predicament it is in. And that predicament, according to both Jewish and Christian viewpoints, radically differs from the original perfection God established at creation”
Based on this definition, E. G. White had a correct idea of education. She saw education and redemption as being the same. Her conception of education was practical and had earthly value, yet it had eternal implications. True education means more than the pursuit of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come.
Ellen White did not look upon education as a struggle in life, not as a challenging barrier that we must struggle in order to get past, but as a pursuit of happiness that will one day turn into something that we are inspired to do. She further states that: “In the highest sense the work of education and the work of redemption are one, for in education, as in redemption, “other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus