User:Shramana2010

Śramaṇa means "one who strives" in Sanskrit

This wiki is dedicated to the memory and genius of the Japanese educator and scholar Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944)

 Aims

The main aim of this wiki is to develop the concept of the 100 year plan for education as first proposed by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi in his ground-breaking work System of Value-Creating Pedagogy 1930. Whilst Makiguchi proposals were essentially for the reform of Japanese education, I now believe that the time is right for the vision of a global education plan. In line with Makiguchi's philosophy of Value Creation such a global plan would not in any way seek to restrict the right of any nation to develop its education system based on its own cultural history.

The Global Plan is the framework for the development of the right to education for every human being.

Extracts from

Education for Creative Living: ideas and proposals of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi published Iowa State University Press copyright 1989 Soka Gakkai

“Education ought to be thinking a hundred years ahead. Instead decisions are left up to politicians so nearsighted that they can’t see beyond what contributes to their own public image in the next election, which makes the actual educators even more nearsighted as they vie and connive to protect their jobs. For all the supposed suffrage of the electorate in matters of education, the realities of the system have hardly left the age of slavery. Planning for the next hundred years, a function that rightly belongs to the central planning agency, cannot be abandoned to the interests of bureaucrats whose calls for reform do not really change anything.” P 138

“What, then would this planning agency do? In general it would survey the conditions of contemporary society and determine what will have to change over the next generation. It would be charged with seeking how to provide the best possible education for tomorrow’s citizens, giving constant attention to planning the creation of personal values. Its task would be one of observing and making proposals.”