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- Brief History of Education
- Restoring True Education
- Gardening with an Eden Mindset
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- Christ's Object Lessons
- Greenhouse
- Importance of Prayer
- Recreation
- Signs of the Times
- Garden Preparation
- Scavenging
- Garden Beds & Paths
- Bible Parables
- Soil Health
- Composting
- Direct Sow Cold-Hardy Plants
- Fencing
- Food Forest
- Companion Planting
- Soft Skills
- Reflection Week
Garden of Eden
“The system of education instituted at the beginning of the world was to be a model for man throughout all aftertime. As an illustration of its principles a model school was established in Eden, the home of our first parents. The Garden of Eden was the schoolroom, nature was the lesson book, the Creator Himself was the instructor, and the parents of the human family were the students.”
Child Guidance (CG 294.2)
“Home Leadership” W.D. Frazee:
- Located in a garden
By being located in the country, our “garden” may provide a place to work, to learn, and for enjoyment and recreation - Nature the lesson book
This is only possible in a country setting where there is a picture on every page. - God as the Instructor
By using the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, by being open to His providences, and through our daily experiences, God can be our “Instructor.” (Isaiah 54:13; John 6:45) - Parents as students
To the child, parents stand in the place of God. But parents need to remain as students in the school of Christ.
“The Garden of Eden was a representation of what God planned that the whole earth would become. It was His purpose that, as the human family increased in numbers, they would establish other homes and schools like the one He had given. Thus in time the whole earth would be occupied with homes and schools where the words and works of God would be studied, and where the students would be fitted more and more fully to reflect, throughout endless ages, the light of the knowledge of His glory.”
True Education (TEd 15.5)
“The garden of Eden was not only Adam's dwelling, but his school-room. As in that school, so in the school of the earth, two trees are planted, the tree of life, which bears the fruit of true education, and the tree of knowledge, yielding the fruit of ‘science falsely so-called.’ All that have connection with Christ have access to the tree of life, a source of knowledge of which the world is ignorant. After sin entered this world, the heavenly husbandman transplanted the tree of life to the paradise above, but its branches hang over the wall to the lower world. Through the redemption purchased by the blood of the Son of God, man may now partake of its life-giving fruit. The tree of knowledge has its roots in the earth. It is of the earth, earthy. All who have tasted of the heavenly fruit, the bread of life, are to be co-workers with God, pointing others from the tree of knowledge to the tree of life, that they also may partake of its fruit.”
Home and Church School Manual (PH140 7.3)