38) PRACTICAL AND PRODUCTIVE: What should be the place of manual labor and practical life skills in a valuable and successful education? What are the most critical skills to acquire?

Prophetic Statements Joseph F. Smith #1: I have often thought of the undesirableness of the young men of our community seeking for light employments, and lucrative positions, without regard to manual and mechanical skill, and knowledge and ability in agriculture. None can deny that there is too great a tendency among the young men, especially […]

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29) VIEW OF MAN: How does viewing individuals as children of God change education? How does the world view the individual? (Intelligence and spirits)

Prophetic Statements Ezra Taft Benson One of the tragedies of the Korean War was the fact that the enemy was able to brainwash some of our men. Those methods, highly refined and deviously developed, have been introduced on a broad scale into our own country by some behavioral scientists through a program commonly called sensitivity […]

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15) MONEY: How much money is necessary for a good education?

Prophetic Statements Spencer W. Kimball To slow down this ever increasing rate of juvenile delinquency, there is a growing cry: “We must have more detention homes and reformatories. We need more public money appropriated for better facilities, more highly trained specialists, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. We need larger jails, more police.” Certainly, it must […]

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28) SCHOOL PROPHETS: How can the School of the Prophets be a good model for education today? What was the organization of the University of Nauvoo?

Prophetic Statements Joseph Fielding Smith It was necessary for the Elders who had been out preaching to return to Kirtland to receive instruction and endowment so that they would be prepared to go forth to preach the Gospel to the world, “for the last time.” It was for the purpose of gaining knowledge of the […]

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18) ATHEISTS/AGNOSTICS: Should individuals without faith be trusted with the education of children?

Prophetic Statements Brigham Young Good teachers who are Latter-day Saints in principle and at heart [should] be employed to educate our children. [1] I have spoken with much plainness concerning several traditions and practices, in order that the Saints abroad may correctly understand that we are not all, as yet, fully sanctified by the truth, […]

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08) PRESCHOOL: What is the best environment for the learning and development of younger children?

Prophetic Statements Ezra Taft Benson It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does […]

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24) RELATIVISM: Where did relativism come from? How do relativists’ teachings correlate with the gospel of Jesus Christ?

Commentary Prophetic Statements Opposing Statements John Goodlad …educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism. [1] It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic […]

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36) SEX-ED: Should sex education be taught in government schools?

Prophetic Statements First Presidency Message We believe that serious hazards are involved in entrusting to the schools the teaching of this vital and important subject to our children. This responsibility cannot wisely be left to society, nor the schools; nor can the responsibility be shifted to the Church. It is the responsibility of parents to […]

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07) SOCIAL: Where should a childs manners and social behavior be developed? What about arguments that children should not be sheltered in a home education environment?

Opposing Statements John Dewey I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to […]

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