Excerpt from The Keiogijuku University: A Brief Account of Its History, Aims and Equipment

In describing this aim of the institution we cannot do better than quote the Founder's own words which follow: The Keiogij uku is not satisfied with remaining merely a place of cloistered learning. It aspires to be a fountain head from where flows the nobleness of character, and an intellectual light and moral glory to illumine the path of Japan. Its aim is to make clear those principles which should govern the domestic, social and national life, not only by preaching but also by practising them, and thus to prove a leading factor in the general welfare of the country.

Important as are physical and moral culture to the youth, an educational institution is primarily a place where they come for the development of their mental faculties. For this reason, after having paid due atten tion to the physical and moral phases of their education, the Keiogijuku spares no effort to develop the mentalpowers of the youth who come under its care. In so doing, however, the institution carefully refrains from encouraging its students to acquire a mere smattering of such numerous branches of knowledge as are not likely to be of much service to them, and also from fostering a spirit of pedantry by insisting on refined specialization in subjects of study remote from general human interests. What it endeavours to accomplish, is to instruct the students in every one of its departments in the funda mentals of the most important and useful subjects in such a way as to give them the habit of severe mental applica tion and to enable them to grasp the significance of things that are taught, so that the knowledge and the habit of industry they acquire may be of great advantage to them when they later take up their life-work.

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