School and search for a new site for the relocation of the university. This would end up being around fifty thousand square meters in To-kyo’s Ekoda in Nogatamura, Toyotama, known by locals as “Wadayama” (the location of today’s Temple Garden of Philosophy in Matsugaoka, Nakano ward). In August, he signed a purchase agreement and bought the new school site. It was the first step on a new challenge for Enryō. Following this Enryō wanted to explore new educational objec-tives so he planned an observational tour of Europe and the United States that would start in November. He discussed this as follows. It is not my intention to survey politics or education, but rather to visit countries in the West where private schools are flourish-ing, mainly to see how they are structured and how they ap-proach administration. I feel there is a great deal of research to be done on improving private schools. The most urgent task is to cultivate capable people to be the lifeblood of our society. At this time when private schools were growing in strength, the Phi-losophy Academy was aspiring to be one of the leading institutions by achieving the valuable goal of becoming a full-fledged university. But then the “Philosophy Academy Incident” happened. The Philosophy Academy Incident was one of two great ideological incidents of the Meiji era. The first was a case of alleged disrespect of the Imperial Rescript on Education by UCHIMURA Kanzō, a teacher at the First Higher Middle School in 1890. The second, in Behind the Philosophy Academy Incident 122
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