This book makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. It will help anyone concerned with these issues to overcome the North American and European bias which is all too common in dealing with the Third World and Japan. The focus is on three main questions: (1) How does the culture conceive of the human person and how does it expect the person to change over time? (2) What are its ideas of health, of illness and of healing? and (3) What are its models of the social environment of learning? (JD)