The Education Department promotes the values of Seventh-day Adventist education, supporting local, regional and international education programmes. Seventh-day Adventists believe in a high type of education. The need for this is well stated by Lord Macaulay:
"Nine tenths of the calamities which have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires. Learning without corresponding character development has been no blessing to the world. Combined with low desire, it has often proved a curse".

Seventh-day Adventists have ever stressed the importance of education, but always with a certain emphasis. The following inspiring motto has been their guiding star:
"Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children". Education, p. 18.
There could be no grander concept of learning. It gives to learning a religious connotation that Seventh-day Adventists appreciate. The student should "advance as fast and as far as possible in every branch of true knowledge". Ibid.