2.3 The general principles: tradition, education, practice

You should not only inherit the tradition but also you should be able to teach it. To whom? You should teach your children and your spouse. You should respect your spouse, "My husband is great." "My wife is great."
With that kind of love and respect between husband and wife, parents must educate their children. Not only do they have to provide them with the right education but also they themselves must put it into practice. Those are the three essential points: tradition, education and practice. That is what we have to work on. (393-104, 09/30/2002)

That is exactly what I try to do. I have stood on the front line to set up the tradition and to educate you. Even if my own children do not know it, the Unification Church members know it.
My own children will grow to understand that what I have done is good. Because you will be the fences that protect my children, they will also learn and understand what I do naturally. Starting from the family level, you should expand to the tribal, national and global level. (113-304, 05/10/1981)

You should inherit the right traditions. You should inherit my tradition and God's tradition. We must practice what God has taught us. It is that simple. (393-55, 09/27/2002)

What we should stress from now in the field of education is tradition, education and practice. You must know the tradition. You must respect our tradition. You must set the tradition of the new nation. You must educate focusing on the tradition.
To educate people, you must know everything there is to know about Korea, Japan and America. Americans do not know Japanese or Korean traditions. Japanese also do not know Korean traditions. (216-137, 03/09/1991)

The three goals of our church are tradition, education and practice. You cannot educate without tradition. What is tradition? Of course, you should educate about my course of indemnification. Moreover, you should create your own family tradition.
I fought in the midst of persecution. You fought without the kind of persecution I experienced. Your history and mine should be unified.
You must extol the fact that I fought under heavy persecution and that you expanded the influence nationwide, throughout Asia and the world. The two should be unified.
So, I tell you that you must create clubs of professionals that can influence the nation's administration and businesses focusing on the second and third generation. The most precious thing is words.
Words can teach people how to behave spiritually and vertically. We should teach people with words. No matter how many horizontal-level regulations exist, they cannot be our focus. That may work in the fallen world, but this has nothing to do with the heavenly world. (226-282, 02/09/1992)

You can only educate people when there is tradition. You can educate people to follow the tradition and expand their influence through practice. My basic teaching is tradition, education and practice. Practice enables the tradition to extend itself.
What is the extension of tradition? Not me as a person. But in the tradition, you can find God's providence of restoration and providence of salvation. You should clearly understand this. You should educate people about it clearly. (241-218, 12/26/1992)

Groups move by following orders or regulations. To make people follow orders, these people need the right training. (248-133, 08/01/1993)

What we should do is to keep the tradition, to educate and to practice. Tradition, education and practice. The tradition is God and True Parents' tradition. (413-31, 07/20/2003)

We must educate people with the tradition of True Parents. If people go through their education correctly, then they will reach the God of providential history.
Set up your own way to do it. No one can help you. Be independent. Help others.
Don't die. No matter how hard things may be, add something good to your daily life. Invest step by step. God has been investing Himself and forgetting what He had already invested. That is His tradition. (248-133, 08/01/1993)

Educate people, focusing on tradition and practice. "Tradition" means the tradition of God and True Parents. You must understand this point clearly.
So you must understand it and practice the tradition. You should know and put into practice God and True Parents' tradition completely as a true object partner.
The heart of prelapsarian Adam and Eve was to be prince and princess. Blessed families should live by that standard. They should also teach it to their children. When you are a prince or princess of God, you establish His kingship. (254-334, 02/16/1994)