Abstract
As in Europe, Japan was influenced after the war by the idea of equality in education. But, this ideal differs from the one prevalent before the war since it focuses on the moulding of free citizens, critical in the respect to matters pertaining to the pre-war state.However, there is an increasingly more evident awareness of a contradiction between the ideal of equality and the economic utilitarianism in the climate of current economism. This tendency is parallelled by a tendency once again to offer the traditional pre-war values as an option.The Japanese educational system has become oppressive for children, who are fed massive doses of certain of the principles of competition. Since the Japanese accord a great deal of importance to education, there are parents who are driven to some considerable financial outlay not always within the reach of their fellow-citizens. This is gradually emphasising social differences. This tendency is reinforced by the spread of private education; this is in the process of replacing state schooling, and makes no attempt to instil the universalist values which any teaching worthy of the name must include. Thus, the Japanese are basically divided between two divergent educational blueprints.
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