school is the experimental training ground of society

If the family is the training ground of the emotions, then school is
the experimental training ground of society.
But society is not where training ends. Where does it end? It ends
with the nation. The nation has a president. Why is it that people
miss the president and want to be near him? When they have
experienced everything, from the family to the society, they go on
to the next level. The president is the fruit of the third stage after
the formation and growth stages. A seed divides, sends roots
down and a shoot up, and then, through circulatory action,
growth begins. After such division comes a synthesis when flowers
and fruit are produced.
Schools raise the people needed by the nation by educating the
qualified elite to serve the nation. They are training and
experimentation sites. Training is not real life but a preparation
stage. You should not make the wrong preparations. What is the
family? It is a training ground for the heart. It is a place where you
train your heart to love. This is why you should live affectionately
like brothers and sisters at school and also live affectionately like
brothers and sisters in the nation. Parental education is needed at
school, in society and also by the nation. Parents should pass
everything in the realm of heart on to their children. They should
create a foundation of heart for their children by teaching them to
follow their parents' footsteps in living in certain ways in the
family, the society, and in the nation. (180-130, 1988.8.22)
When you look at a family, it is not necessarily a good one just
because it has a good house and a good environment. Conversely,
no matter how bad a family's environment may be or how shabby
its house may be, if it offers you peace and you are able to connect
all things in your life to it, then it is a good family. It has a
foundation of heart upon which the parents and children live for
the sake of each other. This is the original homeland for our
memories and the source of motivation for all living. Therefore it
becomes the basis for determining our happiness in life.