1.2 True teacher, true education
Moving with God as the center, we need everyone - babies, adults, sons, and daughters. We need everyone centered on one tribe. That world requires every type of person, including even criminals in prison and people on their deathbed. Hence, you should say, "I will love myself only after having loved mankind and the nation." This is the way to Heaven. You should love your family only after having loved mankind. This is the tradition in which you should be educated. (21-120, 11/17/1968)
Koreans know very well how to face death because they have been educated on this. Guiding people toward a successful conclusion of their lives is the core of moral education. (25-156, 10/03/1969)
If you were to ask the sages and patriots of old and the filial children whether they know true parents and true children, they would say no. No matter whom you asked among the three billion members of humankind, nobody would know. If you could teach this, it would be the highest education one could receive. If you taught this from dawn to dusk, even God would start to concern Himself with it. This is the only education that can connect us to God.
Thus, the one who teaches the ties between true parents and true children can be the greatest teacher in heaven and earth. That teacher can be an object of historical admiration transcending time and space, and will surely be the guide of mankind. (26-41, 10/18/1969)
Goodness is not realized instantly. If you want to be a good person, you have to inherit the past. This is why we need education. You should learn at school. What do you learn? Throughout history, those who have sacrificed to pave the way for goodness did not have an easy life. We should inherit the historical spirit of those who have sacrificed. (50-97, 11/06/1971)
"Love a grandmother from another race as your own." This is the highest education in the human world. You should know this. Even God cannot teach anything higher. The conclusion is that no matter what kind of saints come, they cannot teach anything higher. Even God and the saints have no higher teaching. (89-157, 11/07/1976)
The upright leader says, "When you die, die for the sake of love." What is the greatest education of all? It is this teaching: "When you die, die for the sake of love." You should know this. You should know that this education is greater than getting ten doctorates from Harvard University.
What is our Unification Church seeking to do? We are saying, "Let us die for the highest love. Let us die for the sake of God, humanity, and the world." We should teach, "Men and women, and everything else in the universe started out from love." You should know that when we teach this, there is no education that is higher than it. There is no higher education! When you realize this and live your life in appreciation of God's love, then you shall be glorious and unashamed when you go before the throne of God. (93-191, 05/29/1977)
To love a family that can directly connect to the life force of love is the way of the filial child; to love based on the life force of the nation is the way of the patriot; and to proceed by connecting love with the life energy of the world is the way of the saint. It is clear that ethics have been taught in such directions. You should know that this was right. You should know that to love the world is the way of the saint. This has been the standard of education of ethics. We can see here that this was right. (111-173, 02/15/1981)
Today, school problems are emerging as an urgent social issue in America, Japan, and the whole world. Teachers should educate their students with parental love. They should teach with love that is eternal. Their ties should last beyond their schooldays. Teachers should be unable to forget about their students for the rest of their lives. They should strive to forge such ties of love. Those who connect all their knowledge with love are true teachers. Rather than teaching just to earn a living, they should teach out of an irrepressible love and desire to teach, even at great personal cost. Teachers and students should have such a relationship that, night or day, the teachers long to go to them and convey their knowledge eternally with love, and the students are eager to receive that teaching. (127-17, 05/01/1983)
Professors should teach with strong determination and clear values in this age. In this sense, they share common ground with religious leaders. They should not only transmit knowledge and make known the results of their investigations, but also teach about living a life of responsibility. (130-16, 12/18/1983)
Teachers are not just people who give instruction in schools. They ought to set the standard and example for everything with respect to human affairs. They should be the center. (194-73, 10/17/1989)
There are many teachers here, right? Have you protected your schools as you would your own houses, and taught your students as you would your own children, with the heart of fathers and mothers? If not, you are fakes. The same is true for brothers and sisters. You should have the minds and hearts of mothers and fathers.
Since parents have loved their children in this way, the latter should follow the same way if they truly love their parents. It's the same theory. To be a true elder brother, you should invest in your younger brother more than you invest in yourself.
If the ideal foundation and basic values harmonized through such principles are established in the universe, there will be no accusations or conspiracies. Corruption will be utterly wiped out. Then the logic of feuds between villages and of historical conflicts will no longer apply. (203-309, 06/27/1990)
What does this society and country need in relation to true love? There are three requirements. First, we need parents. What is the next? We need teachers and education. Then what comes next? We need owners.
Teachers should be possessed of three hearts. First, the heart of parents; then, the heart of raising people to whom they can entrust their families eventually as their heirs; lastly, the heart of raising people who can be entrusted with the nation.
Only then will the family, nation or any entity prosper. It's the same in the Kingdom of Heaven. Isn't this true in the case of the nation? The president is in the position of the parent, and the educators are in the position of the teacher. What about companies or administrative offices? They have the relationship of owners and workers.
Companies have owners, don't they? This declining, chaotic world will survive if at least one of them appears. If we meet a true owner, we can naturally meet a true teacher and true parent. We just have to meet one. If there is a true teacher, a true parent and true owner are there as well. Why? It is because God is such a person. (203-361, 06/28/1990)
True teachers teach with the heart of a true parent, in place of the mother. True parents do not just give birth. They also have to raise and educate the children so that they can become heirs and owners in the family. (204-48, 06/29/1990)
God is a true parent, a true teacher and a true king. However, He cannot play these roles directly on earth. Hence, we are called upon to provide true education in the place of God and True Parents. We must love in the position of the parents. If some students are unable to pay for their tuition, we must support them.
The school has to support them, through fundraising or other means. If the school cannot help, the parents and teachers of the class should get together to support their education. Those who put their families first will perish. They won't be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (301-94, 04/16/1999)