Morbid Fact Du Jour For October 23, 2011
Today’s Indoctrinated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The historical roots of militarism in Japanese schools (which was used to indoctrinate young boys to become efficient killing machines during the World War II era) stretched back to the Meiji Restoration. In the late 19th century the Japanese minister of education declared that schools were run not for the benefit of the students but for the good of the country. Elementary school teachers were trained like military recruits, with student-teachers housed in barracks and subjected to harsh discipline and indoctrination. In 1890 the Imperial Rescript on Education emerged; it laid down a code of ethics to govern not only students and teachers but every Japanese citizen. The Rescript was the civilian equivalent of Japanese military codes, which valued above all obedience to authority and unconditional loyalty to the emperor. In every Japanese school a copy of the Rescript was enshrined with a portrait of the emperor and taken out each morning to be read. It was reputed that more than one teacher who accidentally stumbled over the words committed suicide to atone for the insult to the sacred document.
Culled from: The Rape Of Nanking
