省エネ大賞受賞技術開発の軌跡 (58) Trajectory of Energy Conservation Grand Prize-winning Technology Development (58)
第2章 誰でもできる発見や発明
Chapter 2 Discoveries and Inventions That Anyone Can Make
２．２ 常識よ、サヨナラ
2.2 Goodbye to common sense
2.2.1 人まねをしない
人まねや追いつき追いという姿勢、そしてそびえたつ目標に向かって突き進むことが戦後日本の大きな躍進の原動力になったことは事実です。それは評価すればよいと思います。しかし、時代は常に変わり同じ考えや手法が効果を発揮するとは限りません。もし変更が必要なら柔軟に変更すればよいと思います。変更や改革はためらう必要はありません。まず、やってみればいいのです。変えないほうが楽であるために体制側、既得権保有者、年配者から反対は必ず出てきますが、これから長く生きてゆかなければいけない若い人たちがその変革の主導権を取らなければいけません。
これからは白紙状態から自分自身で目標を設定し、その方向性と高さを設定しなければなりません。これからは彼らが他にまねをする目標はないのです。そのためには教育、人材育成がその基本です。
人や社会、国をダメにすることは簡単です。人であれば徹底的に腐らせばよい。社会や国であれば情報操作したり、情報遮断したり、画一で独裁的な思想教育をすれば国は崩壊の道をたどります。これは歴史や現在の北朝鮮や他のいくつかの国々で証明されています。
その反対に子供の育成、企業人の育成などにおいては節度をもって、甘やかさず、褒めて育てる方法が有効であることはよく知られています。愛玩動物でもそうですが。
金太郎飴でなく、横並びでなく、他人の行動様式を常に気にするのではなく自分自身の考えを持ち、それを発表し、討論し、実践できる資質を作り上げる教育が必要です。これまでの行き過ぎた知識詰め込み主義、学歴至上主義、学校ブランド主義、大企業主義、技術・研究業務の劣等・マネジメント優等主義などを反省することが必要です。個人の持つアイデアを否定しない教育、人まねをしない個性豊かな色々な価値を認める教育が必要です。これらの教育をお互いの協調性とのバランスの上で実施することが必要です。この教育が新しい社会の形成につながって行くと思います。
一方、バブル期を経て依然として再起の出口が見えず、雇用情勢も戦後最低状態が長く続きました。リストラや海外進出という形での企業の身勝手な生き残り策、グローバル化という得体の知れない概念下で開発途上国からの搾取が行われています。その結果として経済はデフレになりました。依然として廃業率が起業率を上回る縮小傾向が続いています。
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The picture shows me receiving the award for the SMEs Excellent New Technology and New Products Award on 10 April 2001.
2.3.1 Not imitate others
It is true that the attitude of imitating people, catching up with the other people, and pushing toward a towering goal were the driving forces behind Japan's great breakthrough in the postwar period. I think it should be evaluated positively. However, the times always change and the same ideas and methods do not always work. If we need to change them, I think we should be flexible enough to change them. We should not hesitate to make changes or reforms. First, we could try whatever it may be. There is always opposition from the people on the establishment side, vested interest holders and elderly people because it is easier not to change, but young people who have to live for a long time from now on must take the initiative in those changes.
From now on, the young people have to set their own goals from a blank slate and set the direction and height. They have no goals to imitate the others. To that end, education and human resource development are the basics.
It's easy to ruin people, society, and countries. If it is a person, you could only rot him or her thoroughly. In the case of a society or a country, if information is manipulated and/or cut off, and uniform dictatorship education is provided, the country will follow the path of collapse. This has been proven in history and now in North Korea and several other countries.
On the contrary, it is well known that a method of raising children with moderate praise, without spoiling, is effective in raising them as well as business people. That is also the case with pet animals.
It is necessary to establish the education system that can create the qualities of having their own ideas, presenting them in public, discussing them with other people, and putting them into practice. They should not have an inflexible uniform, a side-by-side lining and they do not have to worry about other people's behavior patterns. It is necessary to reflect on the too much knowledge-packing principle, academic supremacy, school brandism, large corporateism, ideas of technology/research work being inferior to management we had in the past. There is a need for education that does not deny the ideas of individuals and that recognizes a variety of unique values that do not imitate others. It is necessary to carry out these educations in balance with each other's cooperation. I think this education will lead to the formation of a new society.
On the other hand, after the bubble era, the exit for re-establishment was still invisible, and the employment situation remained at its lowest for a long time in the post-war era. Exploitation from developing countries has been carried out under the unknown concept of globalization and selfish survival measures of companies in the form of restructuring and overseas expansion. As a result, the economy became deflated. The business closure rate has continued to surpass the entrepreneurship rate.
To be continued