The Strategies The Meiji Government Used To Achieve Economic Development?

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but also to the
national family which included father, teacher, official and employer. The
Japanese education system also created a system of technical schools and
universities both public and private that educated a growing class of Japanese
on how to use new western machinery, administrate government and run private
industries. The Japanese education system following the Rescript on Education
served primarily to teach people what to think and not how to think; and as
Edwin Reischauer stated, "Japan pioneered in the modern totalitarian technique
of using the educational system for indoctrination and was in fact decades ahead
of countries like Germany in perfecting these techniques." Japan's education
system was a tool in creating for Japan a reliable citizenry who respected the
government and had the knowledge to act as "technically efficient clogs" in the
new industries and administration that an industrializing state created.
The ratification of the Meiji constitution ...

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