1. Fukuzawa
His reasoning was of this, "I reasoned that Chinese philosophy as the root of education was responsible for our obvious shortcomings," he reasoned within himself that Confucianism discouraged independent thought and studies in number and reason in the material culture. ... Because Confucianism did not allow room for individual's creative philosophy, in fact it oppressed it and of course Fukuzawa was against anything of the oppressive ideology. ... His philosophy was, as long as Japan continued to hold fast the ancient customs, which were unfit for the time at present, they would for...
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