Ideas on the Path of Education

Totality of Wisdom

Everything is interrelated in some way with everything else to produce on great total image. The ability to perceive the invisible the invisible threads interweaving all things has been considered a kind of wisdom. Learning must ultimately be related to values of human happiness and a better way of life, not to be departmentalized for its own sake.

Creativity

Creativity is the proof of our humanity. All humans are different. Each has unique personality. Knowledge can be obtained from without but creativity and imagination must be activated from within. Recognising each student as a unique personality and transmitting something through contacts between that personality and the personality of the instructor is more than a way of imparting knowledge; it is the essence of education. Educators must make the effort to call forth the creative powers latent in their students.

International Outlook

Rejection and adoration of the foreign are two sides of the same coin, and both indicate a lack of self-confidence and independence. Economic and military power can breed arrogance but not self-confidence, which can be fostered only through cultural development. Cultivation in one’s own culture is what it takes to be truly cosmopolitan.

"Thoughts on the Aims of Education" – Daisaku Ikdea

知识是基础。启动全面的智慧去联系万物中的种种就能够发挥创意。人与人的真诚交流，感受或受到对方优良品质的影响，有助于增进智慧，当然也就为接下来可能会发挥的创意作为铺垫。当一个人能够联系周遭的一切，利用敏锐地思维与智慧加上本身的素养与文化的底蕴就能洞察事物的本质。拥有这样的能力才能够站在真正的国际视角去看待众生万物。因此教育的目的不在于传授知识，而是在培育人性。这才是教育真正的目的。人性教育才是我们应该迈向的教育目标！