해방 이후 의무 교육 요구와 정책의 전개 방향

Abstract

Many korean people demanded immediate action for compulsory and free common education just right after Korea’s liberation from Japanese occupation. They thought that Japanese colonial authority’s education policies was so deceptive, because the colonial power flouted the Publicness of Education by rejecting subsidies for the education. The anger of the public for colonial education system triggered an explosion of interest in educational system reform. Amid such a atmosphere, the U.S Military Government in Korea made a decision to enforce compulsory primary education. But the budget deficit was do high that U.S Military Government could not maintain heavy investment in education. For this reason, Military authority passed the buck to local self-government by imposing heavy additionals on local-house tax and establishing parent-teacher association(P.T.A) at every school which could take up compulsory collections. This problem on education did not solve even in the period of Rhee Syng-man Administration. Rhee’s administration employed exactly the same policy on compulsory education system. At that time, only the local authorities had a duty to maintaining educational finance stability. This policy was exactly the same thing that the Japanese colonial authority took during Japanese Ruling Era, and opposite to what koreans expected.