The elementary and secondary schools at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas offer bilingual education in Chinese and English. Boys and girls are educated separately in order to avoid distractions and preserve their purity. Due to the many different cultures and nationalities that are represented among the faculty and students, multiple grades are grouped together to allow students more flexibility in academic progress. Students learn to respect and appreciate different cultural traditions. In offering an education based on virtue Instilling Goodness Elementary School and Developing Virtue Secondary School hope to guide students to become good and capable citizens of the world, thus benefiting all of humankind. Aside from the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, branches of the schools have also been formed at other branch temples with the aim of widely propagating filial piety and ethical education.
For monks and nuns, teaching can also be a form of spiritual practice.
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