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E. A. (Edward Alexander) Sutherland
1865–1955
Best known as a pioneering Seventh-day Adventist educator, he helped shape a hands-on model of learning that joined study with practical work, health, and rural life. His books and educational writing grew out of decades spent building schools and reforming how they taught.
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Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns: An Educational Problem for Protestants
by E. A. (Edward Alexander) Sutherland
About the author
Born on March 3, 1865, in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Edward Alexander Sutherland became an influential teacher, college leader, and writer within the Seventh-day Adventist world. He studied at Battle Creek College, later taught there, and went on to serve in major educational roles, including leadership at Walla Walla College and Battle Creek College.
Sutherland is especially remembered for helping develop the school-sanitarium-farm model of education and for founding the institution that became Madison College near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1904. His work emphasized useful labor, health, Christian service, and education outside crowded urban settings, and that approach strongly influenced Adventist schooling for many years.
As an author, he wrote out of this reforming vision rather than from a purely literary career. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns: An Educational Problem for Protestants, and his reputation today rests largely on the lasting impact of his educational ideas. He died on June 20, 1955, in Madison, Tennessee.