Our Mission and Vision

Fostering Originality and Creativity-Oriented Education

Since the Meiji era, education in Japan had meant "initiation and assimilation of knowledge," which might be significant and effective during the industrialized era, but would not be useful for the current IT society. The brain trained through typological learning patterns does not function as the active "live-brain" in present-day. The educational process of "learn-and-follow-ancestors" does not help us develop creativity. The educational reform focusing on "creativity development" is an urgent issue.

As "knowledge" becomes valuable goods in market in the IT society, replacing "products" of the industrialized society, the business picture has changed to more creative value-added solution business. The active "live-brain" and "creativity development" are important factors in this new business.

In the history of human civilization, simple "questions" had always spurred imagination,and theories, that eventually led to “the discovery of truth.” Necessity is the mother of invention. Then, the aesthetic sensibilities and imagination generated fascinating Parnassian arts. Although science and technology may be different from arts, they are all creative activities. Learning should be "creativity development" rather than "assimilation of knowledge." The educational method adopted in the United States promoting "voluntary problem finding and solving" will be a useful model for "creativity development" and the “scrap and build” reform of Japanese traditional educational approaches.

Following the practical enterprise-oriented curriculum does not mean that KCGI neglects theory-oriented learning. Having only a simple technique cannot produce professionals with strong technological and flexible application abilities, and sensible understanding in this dramatically changing and advancing IT era. The KCGI anticipates "real" education, believing that the technological abilities can be developed only through learning theories and scientific methodology and thinking. This is the raison d’être of the KCGI.