一 序言 当今日本经济很发达,与此相反,教育上的种种问题却越来越严重。社会上有弊病存在,最先受害的是最软弱的地方。可以说当代日本的孩子就是这种典型。 自前年7月起,文部省改革了内部机构,以“终身学习(终身教育)”为方针,开始积极地推行面向21世纪的教育改革。其背景是存在着这样一些问题:由于学校垄断教育引起了激烈的考试战争,高龄化社会中的老人失去了生活的意义;在家庭教育方面,也象社会上所说的“有家 A preface Today’s Japanese economy is very developed, on the contrary, the problems in education are more and more serious. There are disadvantages in society, and the first place to suffer is the weakest place. It can be said that contemporary Japanese children is such a typical. Since July last year, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has reformed the internal organs and started to actively promote education reform oriented toward the 21st century based on the principle of “lifelong learning (lifelong education)”. The background is that there are such problems: as the monopoly education in schools caused fierce test wars, the elderly in the aging society lost their sense of life. In family education, as the saying goes, "there is a family