I take immense pleasure to say that I am a part of the Bharat Soka Gakkai Education Department which had its inaugural meeting on 20th October 2018. A landmark in the history of Mumbai.
Soka Education is humanistic education at its core. Its utmost priority is the happiness of children. It exists for the well-being of children.
Soka Education is not a mere injection of knowledge. It differentiates knowledge from wisdom. It works to make a child bloom to the fullest, not by just mere words or written mottoes.
Soka literally means ‘ to create value ‘ and that is what Soka Education does.
Soka (value-creating) education is an educational theory propounded by the Japanese educator Tsunesaburo Makiguchi. On November 18, 1930, Toda published the first volume of Makiguchi’s Soka kyoikugaku taikei (The System of Value-Creating Pedagogy), a summation of more than 40 years of classroom experience.
Today, Soka education is being practiced globally: in Japan in the Soka education system encompassing kindergarten through university, as well as at the Soka University of America in California and Soka Kindergartens in Brazil, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea, as well as other parts of the world.
What is Soka Education? What are the Soka values? How is it different from our present education system? How different are the Soka teachers? Let us know more about this humanistic education in my next piece of writing.
We matter…….By Mamta Motwani
