Independence of Scholarship
Independence of Scholarship is tightly connected with the outsider’s spirit and a critical mind. Waseda University has promoted scientific education and research without bending to authority or temporal fashion, in order to produce independent modern citizens.
Practical Application of Scholarship
In the historical context, academic enterprises had to be useful for construction of the modern nation-state of Japan which was underway at that time. So the founding principle of Practical Application of Scholarship focuses not on shallow pragmatism but the spirit of progressivism.