Dotoku No Kyokasho Yoku Ikiru Tame No Nana Ju No Hanashi (PHP Bunko)

[Machine Translation] We want to teach the inspiring episodes of our great ancestors as an example of how to "live well" in our daily lives. This book is a collection of 70 stories told by a junior high school teacher to children as "moral teaching materials" about what our ancestors valued and were passionate about. The stories include "Kinjiro Ninomiya, who gave away his entire fortune to help revive farming villages," and "Sempo Sugihara, a diplomat who continued to issue visas to Jewish refugees.

日々を「善く生きる」ための手本として、偉大な先人たちの感動的なエピソードを教えたい-。本書は、現役の中学校教諭が子供らに私たちの祖先が何を大切にし、何に情熱を傾けたかを「道徳の教材」として語りかけた七十話を収録。「全財産をなげうって農村の復興に尽くした二宮金次郎」「ユダヤ人難民にビザを発給し続けた外交官・杉原千畝」など、人生の本当の価値を説いた"魂の授業"を再現する。