Success Out Of Education Or Failure Our Of Education

This essay mainly concerns the educational ideology study of Fukusawa Yukichi, the Japanese ideologist and educationalist in recent times. The documentary Analysis method, historical and materialistic dialectic method, and theoretical analysis method are adopted to make an analysis of Fukusawa Yukichi objectively and historically. The whole paper is made up of five chapters. The first chapter is the general course, illuminating the reasons, meaning, status quo, thought and ways of the analysis in this paper. The second chapter introduces Fukusawa Yukichi's experience of seeking knowledge in his youth, as well as that of his visiting America and Europe, and western civilization around the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Then it analyzes how his educational theory and civil ideas formed in the process of his advocating "civilization". The third chapter starts from Fukusawa Yukichi's improper choice of giving up sinology and worshipping the foreign, analyzes both of their influences on Japan through examples of historical affairs of Japanese's blind worship of the foreign, and then illustrates the internal cause of the thriving of those foreign-style schools. The fourth chapter pays special attention to the necessity of Fukusawa Yukichi's theory of " breaking away from Asia and joining Europe" and "rich nation, strong army" leading Japan to militarism. In recent times, Japan uses all armed might to indulge in aggressive wars, undertakes external expansion, and strives for Asian hegemony, getting the national education stuck in militarism. The fifth chapter actually is a reflection, and the conclusion as well. The author holds that Japan in recent times is both done and undone by education. It fails in giving up sinology, shaking the cultural foundation of the educational ideology. It succeeds in the overdue relationship between education and the society which loses its independence. That is the lesson of history.