"***** Teachers should sometimes enter into the sports and plays of the little children and teach them how to play. In this way they may be able to check unkind feelings and actions without seeming to criticize or find fault. This companionship will bind together the hearts of teachers and pupils, and school will be a delight to all. 6T 205.4 ***** Teachers must love the children because they are the younger members of the Lord's family. The Lord will inquire of them as of the parents: “Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?” Jeremiah 13:20 . 6T 205.5"
"Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?"
Ellen White directly references Jeremiah 13:20 in this passage.