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CHAPTER EDUCATIONAL REFORMS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND THE FUTURE EDUCATION IN JAPAN

In order to promote sustained economic development for the increase of the national welfare, every country is more or less attempting planned development of its economy. The more strongly the importance or the role to be played by education in the socio-economic development has been recognized, the more the necessity of long-term and systematic planning for educational development has come to be emphasized as a realistic policy. The significance and necessity of long-term educational planning, which has been found essential to promote the socio-economic development of under-developed countries, has now come to be recognized even in developed European countries. Most of these countries tend to undertake educational reform within the framework of its national long-term educational plan.

While Japan maintains a fairly high level of education compared with other countries, there are important problems left to be solved. In connection with certain plans for the socio-economic development in Japan, it is an urgent task to establish an over-all long-term educational plan for the efficient fulfillment of the role of education in the development of the rapidly changing society.

Besides, it must be remembered that the new role of education is to foster men and women who work always with initiative in the course of the drastic social development and changes which necessitate educational planning. Nothing is so important in education as to aim not only at acquiring knowledge and skills needed for the developing industrial society, but also at building up a new type of character based on enriched and strict morals.