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宣公上人一九九三年五月一日開示於國際譯經學院
我們大家一起齊心努力來辦教育，來改革世界的教育。世界教育現在都是邪風橫流，把青年都給吹得東倒西歪，我們要趕快想法子救世界這個教育。所以不是單單美國的，若單單美國，美國人也不一定需要我們改革，他自己都有聰明、有智慧的，他願意自己改革。我怎麼這麼說呢？因為去年和教育部的人講，他就說美國教育還有希望。我對他說，美國教育破產了，我說你敢不敢這樣說。他想了半天，嗯嗯啊啊的，也不敢正面答覆。他是不敢說的，他說還有希望，你慢慢改革，你不從根本上來，不從男女問題上來，那有什麼用。現在美國教育也知道這個問題了，大家就商量教授和學生不准發生關係，以前他們都是你不和他發生關係，他就不給你畢業，這麼樣搞法兒。
我們的學校現在還升不升旗呀？（弟子：升。）我們升旗，這是要尊重國家的國體，一定要升旗。升旗還要訓幾句話，不單單升旗；在那個時候訓他十分鐘，那是最好的，每一個人輪流來。然後我們的學校一定要有制服，都穿制服。他們現在美國學校也沒有制服，也沒有什麼，像流氓一樣的。都要有制服，男的女的都要有制服，這要再接再勵，把它往好的做，不能馬虎。我們學校要把它辦得，穿衣服不能亂穿，要整頓校風，不像其他學校穿那性感的衣服，女孩子專門引誘男孩子，不可以這樣子，所以我們要分校。我告訴你們，我這一生，雖然是出家人，但是我志在教育，你們誰要是對我有信心，就應該努力從事教育，我們要改革教育，不是盲從的。所以我十八歲就成立義務學校，我一個人教三十多人。教育是做人的根本，是世界的根本，是國防。教育是真正的國防，你教育辦不好，國防就失敗了。
教育是國的根本，所以美國現在弄得亂七八糟，就因為教育不好，教育都是有名無實。我們大家為辦教育，都要拿出一份力量來改革教育，這也不是很容易的事情。我們這譯經院也要改革，不能單單就這麼幾個出家人來做事，在家人也都要幫著來做，一天就拿出一個時間，來幫著這兒翻譯的工作。一天一個小時都可以，這工作不是出家人專有的，出家人也不可以壟斷這個事情，我們因為翻譯的工作進度太慢了，這兩年來，連一本《四十二章經》還沒翻譯出來，這多可憐呀！這不是人不夠，就是不會做事情，他們（指居士）是愛莫能助，到這兒也插不上手，因為出家人把這東西抓得緊緊的！這個我們要開放的，我們大家要集思廣益，出家人、在家人沒有什麼分別，大家做事是一樣的。
我們這兒也一定要提倡義務教學，這風氣若開了，是最好的。年老了照顧照顧點，我們注意要照顧老人，我們萬佛城把老人都蒐羅到一起，每一個老人，都有個小傳、有相片，做一個file，來做我們永遠的紀念，老人也是，中年人也是，出家人、在家人都是，這個小孩子也是，我們要做出來一點成績，給世界人看一看，不是就這麼一天到晚(糊裡糊塗)地就過去了。 |
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Ven. Master's Talk at the International Translation Institute on May 1, 1993
We should all put our minds and efforts together to do education, to reform the world's education. Nowadays, the world's education has been blown by an evil wind. This evil wind has blown our youth astray. We must do something quickly, to save this world and to save education. It is not just the United States. If it were just the States, the Americans do not need us to reform their education. They are smart and wise enough. They want to reform by themselves. Why do I say this? Because I met someone from the Department of Education last year. I told him about this and he said there was still hope for the education in the States. I told him that the education in the States was bankrupt already, and I asked him if he dared to say so. He pondered for a while and only uttered a few obscure Ahs and Ehms, not daring to give a direct reply. He did not dare say so. He said there's still hope. If that is the case, you can take your time. If you do not begin from the basics, if you do not begin from problem of men and women, what is the use? Now, the Americans also know about this. After some discussions, professors and students are prohibited to have sexual relationship. Before, if you did not sleep with them, you could not graduate. What kind of mess was that?
Do our schools still raise the flag every morning or not? (Answer: yes, we do.) Raising the national flag in the morning shows respect for the nation's system. In performing the ceremony you should not just raise the flag, you should also give a ten-minute lecture. That would be ideal. Everyone (faculty members) should take turns lecturing. Also, in our schools, boys and girls must both wear uniforms. American schools do not require uniforms. They have nothing at all, like gangsters. We must try again and again to do a good job and not be sloppy. We must have good schools. Weird clothing should not be allowed in school; we must straighten out the discipline in the schools. Our schools should not like other schools, in which girls wear sexy clothes to attract boys. Because we cannot allow that, we have separate schools. Let me tell you, although I am a left-home person, education has been my lifelong ambition. If any of you have faith in me, you should also devote yourself to education. We want to reform the schools, but not blindly. I set up volunteer schools when I was eighteen, and taught over thirty people by myself. Education is the foundation for being a person. It is the foundation for the world; and it is the true national defense. If you do not do a good job in education, national defense will fail as well.
Education is the foundation for a nation. The United States is in a mess now because the education is no good--it exists in name only. We should bring forth our strength for the sake of education. It is not easy to reform education. Even here, the International Translation Institute needs to be reformed as well. The work cannot just by done by a few left-home people. Laypeople should also join in and help. Take a little time each day to help the translation work, even an hour a day is fine. This work should not be monopolized by left-home people, because the progress is too slow. For two years, not even the Sutra in Forty-Two Sections has being translated. How pitiful! This is not due to lack of manpower. It is because you do not know how to do it. The laypeople cannot help when they come here since left-home people have been holding tightly onto this work. We must open up, widely collect other people's thoughts and wisdom, and thus gain greater benefit. There is no difference between left-home people and laypeople; in working, everyone is the same.
We must also promote volunteer education here. It would be ideal if we could make it a trend. We need to take care the elderly. In the Sagely City we should get all the elderly together and set up an individual file for each older person with a picture and a small autobiography.
The files will be the permanent record of the City's history. In addition to older people, the middle-aged people, left-home people, laypeople and children should all have files as well. We must have something to show the world. We can not live day and night in a disorderly fashion.
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