Academy of Realist Design
A co-operative Christian Science
school for ALL ages

DEMONSTRATION IS PRACTICAL

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Corinthians ii. 4.

... We are in a great hurry to graduate in this school of Christian Science. Have we never discovered that whatever is of value requires constant, unremitting toil to attain it? Did we graduate from the school-rooms of actual life in a single term? Has ever a great musician gained perfect mastery over his instrument in a single sitting at the feet of his teacher? Someone came to Carlyle, as that master of English composition was turning off page after page of his matchless prose. "What a wonderful genius you possess!" said the admiring friend. "Ech! mon, it's na genius, but a capacity for hard work," replied the great Scotchman.

Christian Science Journal, May 1892

MARY BAKER EDDY
Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science
on EDUCATION:

All education should contribute to moral and physical strength and freedom.

The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease.

The teachers of schools and the readers in churches should be selected with as direct reference to their morals as to their learning or their correct reading. Nurseries of character should be strongly garrisoned with virtue. School-examinations are one-sided; it is not so much academic education, as a moral and spiritual culture, which lifts one higher. The pure and uplifting thoughts of the teacher, constantly imparted to pupils, will reach higher than the heavens of astronomy; while the debased and unscrupulous mind, though adorned with gems of scholarly attainment, will degrade the characters it should inform and elevate.

The education of the future will be instruction, in spiritual Science, against the material symbolic counterfeit sciences.

What can prospective students of the College take for preliminary studies? Do you regard the study of literature and languages as objectionable?

Persons contemplating a course at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, can prepare for it through no books except the Bible, and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Man-made theories are narrow, else extravagant, and are always materialistic. The ethics which guide thought spiritually must benefit every one; for the only philosophy and religion that afford instruction are those which deal with facts and resist speculative opinions and fables.

Works on science are profitable; for science is not human. It is spiritual, and not material. Literature and languages, to a limited extent, are aids to a student of the Bible and of Christian Science.

Quotations from Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures
and Other Published Works of Mary Baker Eddy, unless otherwise noted.