1) No One Likes to Study

Does anyone of you like to study? [Yes] You like to study? I don't think so. To study is bad. To stay home is good. Let me see. You can freely.... When you send your children to the primary school or the elementary school, do they say, "Sure, I will, Mom," or "Oh God, I don't care to go." Which have you seen? Which have you seen more? When we think of the students going to kindergarten, they know about only the kindergarten itself. If they were asked to go the kindergarten after knowing about the primary, middle and high schools, university and doctorate courses they should go on to in the future, I think they couldn't go. They couldn't. Do you think they could go? In the middle of class they would run away. Don't you think so?

In your case, you are coming to a primary school for the restorational providence. As you know nothing, you only follow, saying, "Let's go! Let's go!" as I lead, "Let's go!" If you knew all about.... By good luck, you don't know anything. This is true. (laughter) Do you anyway want to know? [Yes!] (laughter) You are going this way with nothing.

Let's say a family was climbing up a big mountain where a pack of tigers always came out. The father and mother knew it, but the baby on his mother's back didn't know anything about the danger and felt at rest. If the baby knew that a pack of the tigers would come out on the uphill path, what would have become of him? Think of what would happen to him. If he knew he would be the first victim in case of being attacked, would he want to go there? Therefore, to know nothing often makes you have good luck. Concentration on what you are doing makes you pass through it easily. (97-119)

If a child in a kindergarten knew about the educational system from kindergarten to primary school, middle and high school, and university he should go to, he would say, "Oh, God. I can't." If he came to know what a difficult thing it is to go to the university and to get through the courses for his doctorate, he would not want to go to kindergarten. No kid, I think, would want to. (97-98)

When you are asked, "Which do you like, to study in the classroom, or to go on a school excursion?" you prefer to go on a school excursion than to stay in class. But you should know it is not easy to go on a school excursion. You should digest strange things outside of the school. In case you cannot, you might be a dropout or a straggler. (115-99)

It is hard to study, isn't it? But can't you do that? Why not? The reason you study is to apply yourself to the social system. The society doesn't apply to me. In the same way the Unification Church doesn't come to you and receive you warmly, but you have apply to it. (139-79)

Is there anyone who likes to study in school? Who on earth likes to study? But why do you have to do it? You cannot spare yourself from doing it. You have to study even at the cost of yourself, or you might become a straggler. (137-157)