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CHAPTER 5, THE LONG-TERM OVERALL EDUCATIONAL PLANNING--FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT
2. Factors to Be Considered in Educational Planning
(2) Effective Distribution of Educational Investment


It is of great importance to determine the proportionate distribution of the educational investment among various educational fields.

For the effective distribution of educational investment, the factors to be considered are diversified and complex. Some of the more important current factors include the increased importance of heavy and chemical industries which have now been developed to the status of permanent national enterprises; the expansion of tertiary industry and the resultant changes in the structure of the working population; the elevation of the standard of national consumption; the reduction of working hours; the increase in leisure time; and, as a result of the cumulative effect of those changes, the new situations in the fields of politics, economics, society and culture of this country and the need for competent leaders in these new fields of activity.

The national goals of education in Japan need re-definition in the light known and foreseeable socio-economic changes, objectives and requirements. As a basic principle for determining the distribution of educational investment, implicit is a definition of national socio-economic and educational objectives. That is the requirement for as nearly complete popular participation as possible, and hence the educational objective of optimum development of the innate capacities and the training of the abilities of all individuals.


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