70 Year Magazine Archive

From the Academy

by Russell Kirk

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The Heart of Japan

When our American educationists went to work on the Japanese schools during the early days of our occupation, they abolished the established courses in moral instruction. To believe in traditional morality, our professors of education apparently thought, would lead to authoritarianism, militarism, and all sorts of dreadful things. I suspect that nothing caused greater contempt for the United States among educated Japanese than our educational policies forced upon them.

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