1. Education and Democracy in Japan
Among the reforms initiated by the Fundamental Code of Education was a mandate that required every boy and girl to attend school for at least four years, starting at age four.7 Perhaps even more important than compulsory education was the de-emphasis on Confucian morality in favor of more "Western" subjects such as practical sciences and the "development of the individual.... Buddhist monks ran most other schools in their monasteries, called wats. 14During the 1960s, Cambodia enjoyed a brief golden age of prosperity. ... During the Khmer Rouge's spectacularly brutal reign, ...
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