"Nipponjin" Ryoku Kokonotsu No Kata (Chikuma Bunko)

[Machine Translation] For Japan, an island nation in the Far East with few natural resources, education was the cornerstone of success and development. Today, however, "education" has become dysfunctional, with the rampant use of "tokenism," bullying, and the collapse of academic achievement. What made the Japanese people Japanese in the first place? This book draws the essence of "the power of education" from the lives and ingenuity of the nine people who boldly lived in modern Japan.

極東の島国で資源にも乏しい日本にとって、教育こそが成功と発展の礎だった。ところが今日、事なかれ主義が横行し、いじめや学力崩壊などの現象は改善されず、「教育」は機能不全に陥っている。そもそも日本人を日本人たらしめたものとは何だったのだろうか。近代日本を果敢に生きた九人の生き方と工夫の中から、「教育力」の真髄を汲みとる。