퇴계교육철학과 근대교육

A Study on the Relation Between Toegye Yi Hwang and Colonial Education in the Japanese Emperor System

The purpose of this study is to review the interpretation on the educational philosophy of Toegye Yi Hwang in the Japanese colonial period. Modern education in the Japanese emperor system was to make Korean people tamely incorporated into the utopia of Naeseonyoonghwa(the ideology that Japan and Korea are harmonious) and Naeseonilche(the ideology that Japan and Korea is and should be one). In the main idea of Kyoikuchokugo(the Meiji emperor's message on education), the relations between the two countries were just only handled by Japanese emperor's great virtue. The essence of Toegye's educational philosophy is free will and autonomy. But modern education under the Japanese colonial period went to totally wrong direction. Modern education by the name of Toegye was absolutely failed under Japanese colonization.