Robert Cutts

An Empire of Schools (eBook, ePUB)

Japan's Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on in-depth analysis, extensive interviews, and a journalist's keen insight, An Empire of Schools provides a new framework to explore the misunderstandings that have arisen between Japan and the United States. The vital determining issue that complicates U.S.-Sino communications, Cutts says, is not the cultural incompatibilities of the people or economies but the fact that all Japanese leaders emerge from the same educational treadmill or "e;cartels of the mind."e; This revered system, crowned by five national and private universities, and from which almost all Japanese leaders emerge, teaches its students that they are inherently incapable of sharing their values, civic or personal, with those of any other civilization. Describing an educational system that has been left fundamentally unchanged since the Meiji Empire, Cutts depicts the elites who graduate from the system, describes what ethical philosophy is imparted to those graduates, and warns of the dangers of nationalist elitism that arise from the system. Filled with personal anecdotes as well as critical interviews, An Empire of Schools traces the potential consequences to Japan and the Pacific Rim of an educational system that begins imparting an elitist doctrine in kindergarten that extends to the highest levels of Japanese government.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317453529
• Artikelnr.: 42901109

Autorenporträt

Robert L. Cutts, Chalmers Johnson,

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 If There Is a God, He Went to Todai
Chapter 2 First Principles: The Society
Chapter 3 First Principles: The Individual
Chapter 4 The Ivory Basement
Chapter 5 A Tale of Two Citizens
Chapter 6 The Leisure Class
Chapter 7 Whös on Top: The Women Elites
Chapter 8 Family: She¿s Got the Whole World in Her Hands
Chapter 9 Weapons
Chapter 10 Making It
Chapter 11 Fifty Ways to Lever the Governed
Chapter 12 Reform: No Exit