Educators Division Marks Makiguchi’s Anniversary

Japan 2021

On January 10, a group of young educators from the Soka Gakkai Education Department held an online meeting to mark the 150th anniversary of first Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi ’s birth. Makiguchi, a reformist educator, formulated a pedagogy of value-creating (Jpn. soka) education based on his belief that children’s happiness should be the purpose of education.