"The Parents’ Part But the teacher should not be expected to do the parents’ work. There has been, with many parents, a fearful neglect of duty. Like Eli, they fail to exercise proper restraint; and then they send their undisciplined children to college, to receive the training which the parents should have given them at home. CT 91"
"For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not."
Both passages address the failure of parents to properly discipline their children and the consequences thereof. The EGW passage explicitly mentions Eli as an example of a parent who failed in this duty, directly referencing the biblical narrative.