Japan's post-war rise benefited from attaching importance to education and personnel training. Former Japanese Minister Araki Wanfu once pointed out: "From Meiji to today, China's social and economic development, especially the post-war economic development, is amazing and attracts worldwide attention. The important reason for this situation can be attributed to the popularization and development of education. " Schultz, a famous American development economist, said: "After the war, Japan's material capital stock almost disappeared, but an important part of its national wealth-people with knowledge level still exist in large numbers." The history of attaching importance to education in Japan can be traced back to the Meiji Restoration. As early as 1872, when the Meiji government promulgated the Learning Law, it put forward a very clear slogan in the Announcement of the Academic System, to achieve "no family in the city can learn, and no family can learn." Then, starting from 1886, the Meiji government announced the implementation of compulsory education throughout the country. After about 30 years of hard work, primary education has finally been popularized throughout the country. Moreover, in chronological order, Japan is also the first country in the world to popularize compulsory education nationwide, four years earlier than the United States and 10 years earlier than France. As former Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Takeo said in a policy address: "People are the wealth of a country, and education is the foundation of national politics." This should be the root of the miracle of Japan's rise.
The rise of Japan after the war benefited from the pursuit of perfection and Excellence. Ji Tianmao is the most famous Japanese Prime Minister after the war. In his later years, he wrote "Hundred Years of Agitation" in passionate language, summarizing how the Japanese nation overcame difficulties, was far-sighted, enterprising, good at learning and pursued perfection. He said that the Japanese nation has a professional spirit of stopping at perfection. Unless you don't do it, you must do your best, which is deeply rooted in the blood of the Japanese nation. This is the main reason why Japan has been the second economic power in the world after the Meiji Restoration and the post-war economic miracle. Drucker, a master of management, said that there were three mentors for Japan's economic take-off after the war. The first tutor was Dodge, who taught the Japanese to develop the economy, first of all, to stabilize monetary finance and fix the exchange rate between the Japanese yen and the US dollar at 360 yen. The second tutor is Deming, the father of total quality management. Drucker said that quality management was invented by Americans, but it was the Japanese who applied it perfectly and realized it. The third tutor is Drucker himself. He taught the Japanese how to think about strategy and implement management by objectives. Drucker also has a profound study of Japanese cultural spirit. At the age of seventy, he was honored as a professor of Japanese art and culture at the University of Tokyo, and he was proud of it. Drucker and Ji Tianmao have the same idea. The second division believes that the real interest of the Japanese nation is the pursuit of perfection and perfection of professionalism. No matter what you do, you should strive for the best, focus on nothing and strive for perfection. Behind this spirit is an extremely humble learning attitude and an open mind that always absorbs the strengths of others. Akio Morita said: "The secret of Japanese enterprises' rapid progress in a short period of time lies in the fact that business operators always think that Japan lags behind others in all fields, thus creating a sense of urgency. They are willing to pretend to be European and American students, insist on paying tuition fees, learn business practices and attract new technologies. " "In Japan, people are constantly pursuing the improvement of efficiency and productivity, even for a simple tool like a screwdriver. From design to processing, it has been carefully thought out and studied. "
And China people resort to deceit, opportunism and deception. . . This is the general psychology in China today. Is there still a big gap compared with the Japanese professional spirit of pursuing perfection and Excellence? !
The rise of great powers depends on science and technology, and the contest between countries is, in the final analysis, the contest between national quality and talents. To put it bluntly, the overall national quality of China is not the same as that of developed countries, because it is difficult to accept other people's educational ideas. The British historian Toynbee studied 2 1 civilizations that appeared in history and then died out one after another. The conclusion is that the cause of death of these civilizations, without exception, is not homicide, but suicide. They lost the vitality of innovation and were eliminated by history.
1876, when the United States celebrated its independence 100 anniversary, it held an international exposition in Philadelphia, with 37 countries participating. At that time, the Qing government also sent an exhibition group. At this Expo, Britain exhibited the latest steam locomotives, the United States exhibited high-power motors and generators, Germany exhibited precision machine tools for processing guns, and China exhibited 27 sets of ear scoops and embroidered shoes made of pure silver.
This is the gap of the times!
A country in peacetime is qualified to talk about who is the first!