Raising Children In God's Will (159) Chapter 3. How to Raise Children Section 2. Need for Family Education
2) The Fall of Man Requires Education - 3
The individual is a product of history, as are the family, the nation, and the world. Among all the products, how large is the product of good? How much good has the world produced altogether? I want to know.
In your own environment, what percent consists of good? In your own personal character, what percent consists of good? I want to know.
When we consider how much evil and how good there are, we recognize that good is surrounded by evil.
There is no education needed to do evil. It's easy to do evil, no education needed. Our history began with evil so that no one needs to learn to do evil.
Do you need to learn to do evil? We need to learn to return to human morality and the dictates of conscience as our standards. What kind of education?
Even with one that centers on good and on conscience, how many of us live up to the standards? Anyone can do evil without any learning. Anyone can pass that course. (36- 57)
Do we need an education for evil? Don't we? No need to learn about evil. No need to teach to do evil. If you just leave them alone, they naturally turn evil.
Just follow the body and evil takes over. Isn't that so? [Yes] Hey, you grandpa there, if you follow your body, is that good or evil? [We become evil.] No, you can't even think about being good. You surely become evil. (38- 303)
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