How should we educate our children?

The best way to raise and educate our children is to teach them how to eliminate their selves. If this is difficult to teach, you should teach sacrifice to children. It is the way to success.

People try to reap a harvest without sowing seeds, but for such people their harvest will be one of weeds. Sacrifice is the true seed. The bigger the sacrifice, the better the seed it becomes. There is no way to grow a true plant unless you plant a true seed.

If you teach your children to act only for their own benefit and to use their shallow cunning, rather than becoming a big tree they will become weak plants that are likely to die. They will not be able to grow properly and they will have many limitations.

Only when a person sacrifices with a truthful mind, can he gather other people’s strength and become a big tree. Living this way is Truth but people live imprisoned by their small selves, which have deviated from their original mind. Sacrifice is the greatest driving force for one’s life in society. It is the shortcut to success and it raises people’s possibilities to infinity.

Reference: The Book of Wisdom by Woo Myung