Aratamete Kyoyo to Ha (Bunko Mu 15-1)

[Machine Translation] The starting point of culture is morality. No matter how broad the knowledge and experience one has acquired, if one lacks modesty as a human being, he or she is not an educated person in the true sense of the word. This book is a must-read for Japanese people, and it reaffirms the lost essence of "culture" by tracing the process of the liberal arts education born in Europe, which eventually came to Japan and was transformed by the Taisho liberal arts education and postwar democratic education.

教養の原点-それは、モラルにあり。いかに幅広い知識や経験を身につけていても、人間としての「慎み」が欠けていては、真の意味での教養人ではないのです。ヨーロッパで生まれた教養教育がやがて日本に伝わり、大正教養主義や戦後民主主義教育によって移り変わってゆく過程をたどりながら、失われた「教養」の本質を再確認させてくれる、日本人必読の書。