Prince Shotoku’s Educational Thought And Educational Achievements

Prince Shotoku(574-622) is the Japanese era famous thinker and political reformer, at thesame time, he is also an outstanding educator. In his role as the regent of30years, with strongknowledge of Confucianism and Buddhism culture as the basis, make a New Deal, efforts todevelop foreign culture, expand the school education, in an attempt to abolish the clan system,set up with the center of the royal family centralized country.Prince Shotoku’s educational thought can be said to be absorb anything and everything,the different ideas together, and these thoughts and Japanese local culture combine, inpromoting the development of Japanese culture at the same time, greatly promoted thedevelopment of Japanese education. He not only adhere to carry forward the Shinto, andactively absorb the Chinese Confucianism and Buddhism; Not only for demonstration, andstrongly advocated; He sent students to study in China, expected to combine Confucianismand Buddhism, the guiding thought of as, applying the idea of the unity of Confucianism andBuddhism and educate people. During the Prince Shotoku regent, through the communicationwith China, north Korea, Japan absorb to the introduction of a large number of culturaleducation system; Through learning and buddhist education; He also actively encourage theestablishment of school, promote the development of Japanese private.Prince Shotoku’s education thought is based on their actual absorption on the basis of theintroduction of Chinese traditional ideology and culture essence to fuse and nurture a largenumber of outstandig talents, offers russian innovation ideas and personnel aspects ofpreparation. It was his presence, that pushed the Japanese education to the development of thenew era, contributed to the Japanese bird era culture education program, and for the peaceperiod huai culture and the formation of Japanese education has laid a good foundation.