Kuniyoshi Thinking Of "holistic Education"

Obara kuniyoshi is the founder of Yuchuan Institute, which is well-known in Japan. As an educationist, Obara kuniyoshi devotes his whole life to the practice of whole-person education. His educational thoughts and practice are the main embodiment of the democratic educational trend of thoughts in Japan's Dazheng period and early Zhaohe period. Embodied in all his works, whole-person education is the core of Obara kuniyoshi's educational thoughts, and is also the essence of all his education theories. The Whole-person Education theory is the product of a particular social and cultural background. At the same time, it is closely related to Obara kuniyoshi's personal qualities. It is the creative integration of all advanced educational thoughts in the world, and is also the crystallization of the fruits of Obara kuniyoshi's own educational practice. The Whole-person Education theory is very rich in content, but its essence is embodied in three aspects of whole-person qualities: the thought that the ideal of education lies in the creation of the six values of truth, goodness, beauty, holy, health and wealth, which means the educated should get a well-balanced and harmonious development in such six aspects as knowledge, morality, art, religion, health and life; the thought that education should follow the principles of respecting the personality of students, students' independent learning, valuing students' self-study, encouraging students to do manual work, establishing close relationship between teachers and students, and better practice than precept; the thought that teachers themselves should also have the whole-person quality, which is embodied in their pursuit of the six values of truth, goodness, beauty, holy, health and wealth. As an ideal objective pursued by human beings, both the theory and practice of whole-person education develop with the evolvement of the human beings' social practice.