1. Student's Responsibility

In the school there are subject and object relationships between the principal, teachers, and students. Therefore, any student opposing a teacher should be kicked out. If a student goes to school with another plan rather than to study, he should be kicked out. (118-19)

Everyone should have his own position. In the family, a son must wait upon his parents, sister, or mother and father; each of them should have his own position. Everyone has his own position in which he or she forms a connection and establishes a relationship with each of the others, where he or she tries to do his or her duty fully. For example, a student who goes to school as a son of his parents has his own position and responsibility both as a student and as a son. If he did not have that position, he would be in a miserable condition.

Without such a position and responsibility coming out of those relationships, he would be a lonely person. The position being clear, centering on it and having helpful surroundings to get what he wants to get through systematically the front and behind, right and left, above and below relationships, he could make his mark in the world in future. But no matter what position was set with all conditions fulfilled, when the surroundings were not helpful to harmonize with his direction, he would have trouble in making his way. It is the same in the path of our life, in our family, and in society as well. (41-130)

Young students today go to school carrying bags with them. But some of them have no idea why they go to school. "I am going into the society." Then where are you going? "For the country, I am going to carry heavy responsibility." And then? "Into the world, for I want to lead them." And then? Here, they don't know where to go more.

They lost their way before Heaven. Everyone in the world is in such a miserable situation. (5-178)

For a man to succeed in his life, he should establish a purpose. You should have a real goal of life. If you wander from your purpose, you will waste your time. It is to fool away your time. In school, a major field in your course of study is very important in carrying out your original idea through elementary school, junior and senior high school, and the courses for the Master's and Doctor's degrees in the university.

Judging from the foregoing, at the time when you are placed, for example, in your primary school, if you make every effort you will achieve the chance for middle school. It takes about 18 or 19 years of schooling for the Master's course, and 20 or 21 years for the Doctor's course. The number is fixed, but you can shorten it if you make desperate efforts to do so.

Who can shorten the school years to 18 or 10 years? It is up to "me" whether to shorten it or not. The limitation of time does not control me. I should become a person able to control time.

It takes a certain time to accomplish a definite object. There is a proper time period during which you should input a certain quantity of labor. Even though you have invested a certain quantity of labor in a certain time, you still need to do something more. That is to devote yourself to it. Investing the unified oneness of your mind and body can make a vast difference. What is the source of the driving power for you to devote yourself and to make desperate efforts? Do you have to turn to others for help, or should you establish your subjecthood by your own efforts? Which is more effective? When you have the driving power in yourself you can go your own way in case you could not find any helper from outside.

What do you need the most to get the driving power in yourself? What becomes the core of the motivation? You may easily imagine that there .must be a foundation on which you can have the way to establish your subjecthood through the heart. From where does the higher heart give me such an explosive driving force? It comes out of the reciprocal relationship between parents and children, between beloveds. From where do you receive that explosive stimulation? You receive it from love, which is different from place to place. It is influenced by its environment, such as a satisfactory or unsatisfactory surrounding.

Why do you go to elementary school, middle and high school, and the university? [Because of duty] You should recognize that you are determined to go through the undertaking. According to whether you could accomplish it or not... To bring a solution with great value in a heavy responsibility you go to school. (98-234)