2. Student Days are a Preparatory Period

Students are the core of all society, the concentration of all social elements. All the social systems are connected to the students through the school. Through the fields of learning they can connect any social fields, such as politics or economics, etc. In short, a school is a training camp of the society where the core of all social systems works in a reciprocal relationship with the students.

Between the society and school there is a relationship of an equation of the first degree. No matter how high a grade you get in school, you must try to do best in the society too. There is no room for a free passenger. You must grow up as much as you did in school. If you grew up as much as this, you must set an objective condition as much as that in the world.

No matter how high a grade you made in school, you cannot succeed in the society as long as you spare yourself. However fine a job you obtained after school, you might fall behind others if you spare yourself for ten or twenty years. Therefore, you should keep trying more than you did in school. (180-130)

You are all youth. But whether you will win success or not will be decided in a crucial moment. Watch the moment. (91-29)

When you start your study in school, the teacher is your teacher and you are his students. But after one year, some failing students might be among you. Then the teacher says, "I love you, but there is no other way. You must stay back in the class while the others go to a higher class. I must follow them. But you cannot follow me." You must accept what the teacher says. Your complaint that your teacher won't do anything for you doesn't make sense. (123-204)

What traces will the students leave in their school days? And what are you going to leave in this front line? It must always be borne in mind to do something meaningful in every circumstance. Understand? [Yes!] What shall I leave in the relationship with others? Be sure to think about it. (96-331)