INDIVIDUAL VIRTUE GROUP

Because I value myself as a child of God, I choose to be a person of virtue.

 

How To Be A Person of Virtue

Learning

God gives me opportunities and curiousity to improve and advance my knowledge and skills to better serve Him. He gives me wisdom to carefully consider each choice and action.

I choose to make the most of my learning opportunities.

Definition

Learning related virtues: Adventist Education, common sense, discernment, reason, wisdom, thoughtfulness, considerate, sensible, judicious, astute.

Adventist Education means: Going to an Adventist school because it teaches not only the subjects taught in other schools, but it teaches about the Bible and how to be saved. Students learn God has a part in every part of the world we live in. In every subject students see lessons of faith and how they can witness. Adventist schools have other students that have similar beliefs and values who make good friends.
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Seek Ye First, HIOS, 83
Unto Thee, O Lord, HIOS, 102
I Have Decided to Follow Jesus, HIOS, 146
More About Jesus, SDAH, 245
The Judgment was Set, SDAH 416
O Solemn Thought, SDAH 417
Day of Judgment, Day of Wonders!, SDAH 418

Student Life Applications

Students carrying their Bibles to school
Students praying together.
Teachers and students praying together
Teaching holding up picture of missions.
 

Bible, E.G. White


II Kings 3:28 Wisdom of God in him
II Kings 17:28 Then one of the priests taught . . . the fear of the Lord
II Chronicles 17:9 Levites taught the people
Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speak wisdom
Proverbs 2:6 The Lord giveth wisdom
Proverbs 3:13-20 Get wisdom
Acts 5:21 Peter taught in the temple


Reinforcing Stories

Stepping Stones by Dorothy Eaton Watts, July 9, 23, October 21, June 5, June 3, 7, 20
The Children's Hour I, pg 31, by Arthur S. Maxwell
"Dreamy Dora", Volume One, Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories, p. 58

"How Lazy Laurie Became Mother's Helper", Volume Two, Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories, pg 32, by Arthur S. Maxwell
"Luck", "The Boy Who Didn't Know His Name", "The hard things first", "Keep Moving", Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School
July 18, Sure as the Dawn by Mansell and Mansell

Student Activities

Discuss with students the Mission of the school and how it differs from other schools.
Talk about how the first Adventist schools were started in your country.
What are the things students can be proud of in their school.

 

Links to the Curriculum
Art: Showing fun and happy times at school promoting an excellence of mind that God wants.
Health: Sickness and disease could be lessened by education.
Home Economics: Parents who promote Adventist Education profit by more respectful and helpful children.
Social Studies: Each country has an education system. Adventist education teaches students how to live in their homeland and in heaven.
 

Resources
Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School, Department of Education of the General Conference, Reveiw and Herald Publishing Association, 1951.
Going Up by Charles L. Paddock, R&H, 1953

 

Evaluation

Primary:
Tell or write about a time when you saw someone learning.
Tell or write about when you saw the hurt and unhappiness when someone was not learning.
How do you think God feels when He sees people who are learning?
How do you feel when you are learning?
What makes you want to be learning?
What is the opposite of learning? Who makes us act that way?

Middle:
Why does God care if I am learning?
What difference does it make whether I am learning or not?
What effect would it have on my future if I did not choose to be learning?
How would people treat me differently if I did or didn’t choose to be learning?
How would I feel about myself if I did or did not choose to be learning?
Give some reasons why you think it is best to be learning. Why would someone do differently?
What makes choosing to be learning better than the opposite?
List some ways that a person might be learning without anyone noticing?
List 3 situations where a person could be learning in his work, home, or at the shopping mall.
Is it possible for a person to get better at learning? Explain.
Can you think of someone who seems good at learning? What makes them better at it?
Do you like to join in when people are learning? How have you joined in?

High school:
Would you practice learning if no one was checking on you? Your parents, school, or the law?
What is the alternative to learning and what do you see as the results of that choice?
Would you recognize it if someone was not fully learning? How?
Would you keep quiet if someone paid you a lot of money not to be learning?
Are you proud to be learning and willing to tell others how you feel?
If someone in a group spoke out against learning would you speak up to give the other side?
Are you willing to put some of your money toward supporting learning in your city, class, work?
Can you say that learning has become a habit? How often are you that way?
What effect do you think learning will have on your future life?
Do you see your family practicing learning? How about your church, city, or nation?
What do you think should be done to promote learning in your family, friends, church, city, nation?
Does it make much difference if they are learning or not?