Background
Eugene Booth was born in 1850.
Eugene Booth was born in 1850.
As a missionary, it being his main concern to introduce Christianity to the Japanese, he pursued it in the process of education, especially in the education for women who were not yet independent members of the society bound in the feudal order. So it was the efforts to make them free and equal with men as persons, responsive members of society, and also important instruments to realize the glory of God, through activities at their respective position in the community such as family and nation. In the efforts of putting those fundamentally new ideas of education into practice, Booth thought much of the positive values in traditional Japanese society, but at the same time sharply denied the negative and wicked elements of the culture which are against the truth of Christ. Therefore he could overcome theoretically those narrow-minded ideas of national education in his period, which enhanced patriotism, maintained Confucian feudal ideas, and implied modern utilitarian egoism.