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Before becoming a monk, the Master established a free school in his own home and taught children from poor families without charging any tuition. He often said, "Education is a nation's best defense." In order to save the world, the most urgent priority is to develop good education. If we want to save the world, we have to bring about a complete change in people's minds and guide them to cast out unwholesomeness and to pursue goodness. For this purpose the Master founded Instilling Goodness Elementary School in 1974, and Developing Virtue Secondary School in 1976. |
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The Master indicated that elementary school should teach students to be filial to their parents and respectful to their teachers and elders, secondary school should teach students to be good citizens, and a university should aim at humaneness, righteousness, the Way, and virtue. Instilling Goodness Elementary School and Developing Virtue Secondary School merge the best of contemporary and traditional methods and of Western and Eastern cultures. Due to the emphasis on moral virtue and spiritual development, in addition to the required academic curriculum, courses are offered in ethics, meditation, Buddhist studies, and so on, giving students a foundation in virtue and guiding them gradually to understand themselves and to explore the truths of the universe. |
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