institutional and constitution structure that allowed Japan in the

coming decades to be a stabile and industrializing country. Two major

policies and strategies that reinforced stability and economic

modernization in Japan were the creation of a national public

education system and the ratification of the Meiji constitution. Both

these aided in stability and thus economic growth.

The creation of a national education system aided in creating

stability because it indoctrinated youth in the ideas of loyalty,

patriotism, and obedience. Japan's education system at first stressed

free thought and the ideas of individual's exploration of knowledge

but by 1890 the education system of Japan became a tool for

indoctrination into what Peter Duus calls "a kind of civil religion"

with the Imperial Rescript on Education. This Rescript stressed two

state and family. Filial piety was taught in schools and applied not

Japan at least in the minds of the oligarchy to parity with western

placed. Second, the education system stressed self sacrifice to the

capital in businesses. Both the new education and governmental

father, teacher, official and employer. The Japanese education system

also created a system of technical schools and universities both

thought a constitution and parliamentary government was a necessary

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