Home and Church School Manual

Age in the home school

“The first seven or ten years of a child's life is the time when lasting impressions for good or for evil are made.”—P.C. May 6, 1897. PH140 14.1

“Parents should be the only teachers of their children until they have reached eight or ten years of age..... Many children have been ruined for life by urging the intellect and neglecting to strengthen the physical powers, Many have died in childhood because of the course pursued by injudicious parents and school-teachers ... when they were too young to see the inside of a school-room.”—Christian Education, 8. PH140 14.2