In July 2010 the Mens Division is reading The New Human Revolution, Volume 7. The first chapter is entitled “The Flower of Culture.” It begins with a description of the first Education Department National Convention on August 1, 1962. The Education Department had been formed on May 3, 1961, which was the first anniversary of President Ikeda’s inauguration. Prior to the meeting he had written an editorial about education in Daibyakurenge.
“From ancient times to the present, in every nation and civilization around the world, history has clerly shown us that education determines the prosperity or decline of a people and a nation. The effects of education reveal themselves only twenty or thirty years after. Thus education determines the success or failure of the next generation…”
