For a primary school boy, the primary course is a sort of binding rope. Isn't it? Curriculum is a binding power-rope for the students. When you go to a university, the subjects in a school curriculum are like handcuffs to put on you. You have to remove your bonds, don't you? (126-42)

If you want to get something done, you have to pass through the period of number seven. You go to primary school for 6 years. How about middle school? [six] Who in the world made it six years? Without going through number 6 you cannot pass over one period.

Number 6 is double the number 3. Three goals means to separate three stages of formation, growth, and perfection. The ideal number is number 7. When it connects to the number 6, it becomes the center which is called the completion number. Do you understand? (181-90)

Can any primary school boy say, "I don't need to go to school"? Is he able to do that? Refusing to go to primary school, he cannot have the foundation for middle school. Right? [Yes] Without finishing a middle school he can't go to high school. Why on earth can't he go there? Why isn't it possible, if he can do whatever he wants to? Is it because he lacks power, or because he is not handsome? Is it because he has no money, or because he is not dressed up? [No] Even though he dislikes school he has to go through that stage of study.

Starting from the kindergarten, we must go through the primary, junior and senior high school stages before entering a college and getting a doctorate. As you go on to the top process you cannot say you don't need the lower process anymore. Why do you still need what you learned in primary school? In primary school you studied the basic subjects. You still need all of them. You may say so because you are so naturally digesting them in the present situation that you forget even the fact that you already learned them. As long as you recognize that you studied them you cannot say you don't need them anymore.

What did you study in kindergarten? You go to kindergarten to prepare for the primary school, which means to make the study in primary school easier. Why do you go to elementary school? Not having difficulty in middle school is the reason of your going there. Why do you go to middle school? In order not to have trouble in high school. How about high school and university? In order not to have trouble in the studies for the Master's and Doctor's degrees. Am I right? [Yes] Look. To study in the primary school is more difficult than in kindergarten, high school more than middle school; studies for the Bachelor's degree are more difficult than those of high school, and the doctorate course is still more difficult.

Then, when you set out in the world it is even more difficult. Everything goes on like this. More and more it becomes difficult. More and more. Listen. Are you now learning from Reverend Moon of Tongil Church or not? [laughter] They don't teach you this even at the university. You must, listen attentively to this lecture, . It is basic education. Do you feel it? [Yes] I cannot tell you how great... When you go out into the world, you can have such a critical eye that whatever great figures say means nothing to you. So Moonies are said to be "smart guys."

You have something with you. It is an established reputation. Look. When you go to middle school, you like to dress up, as you did in primary and elementary school; but since entering high school and university you don't have time enough to have a haircut or a shave. You are in the depths of misery. You are often obliged to view the past as the "good old days" of kindergarten and primary school.