"Bunmei-toshiteno Kyouiku" (Education from the View Point of Civilization) by YAMAZAKI Masakazu

Mr. Yamazaki is a professor and a current chief chairman of the Central Educational Council organized by the Japanese Cabinet. In this book he is expressing his personal thinking about many educational problems in Japan, but he also strongly writes that these are not the opinions as a chief chairman.

At first he explains the changes of education from ancient Greek to the modern nations. Based on the changes he predicts the final state, and then explains many educational problems currently occurring.

So far I did not have so much interest in education, and I cannot judge the opinion described in this book is very general or very special. However, the description is very easy to understand and very convincing at least for me, and I could build a skeleton on which I can discuss the education.

(Finished reading on Apr. 25, 2008)


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Japanese character(s) (kanji)
* YAMAZAKI Masakazu : 山崎正和
* Bunmei-toshiteno Kyouiku : 文明としての教育