# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
TEACHING & LEARNING

SISM offers a well-rounded curriculum encompassing Cambridge curriculum for secondary levels and options of Cambridge A-Level or IBDP for Pre-University studies in years 12 and 13. Our aim is to consistently provide top-quality education at every academic phase for our students.

Year 7-9

Cambridge Lower Secondary

(11 - 15 Years Old)

Year 10-11

Cambridge Upper Secondary

(14 - 17 Years Old)

Year 12-13

Pre-University Programmes

(16 - 19 Years Old)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
SISM, the abbreviation for Soka International School Malaysia, is the first international school in the world based on the Soka humanistic values.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Daisaku Ikeda is a peacebuilder, Buddhist philosopher, educator, author and poet. As third president of the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist organization in Japan, founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and founder of several international institutions promoting peace, culture and education, he has dedicated himself to bolstering the foundations of a lasting culture of peace.

Photos used on the Daisaku Ikeda website are courtesy of the Seikyo Shimbun unless otherwise indicated.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
SGI President Daisaku Ikeda's engagement is sustained by his belief in the dignity and supreme value of life and the creative potential of every individual.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Daisaku Ikeda

Founder, Soka University of America
Daisaku Ikeda is an educator, philosopher, prolific author, and peacebuilder whose efforts for the promotion of humanistic education, intercultural dialogue and exchange, and peace has received worldwide recognition. He is the president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) lay Buddhist association. Ikeda founded the Soka school system on the conviction that humanistic, student-centered education is the foundation for developing global citizens and a peaceful, life-affirming society.
In Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea, the Soka school system extends from kindergarten to graduate study. In Brasil, a kindergarten, elementary school, and junior high school have been established, while, in Japan, the Soka education includes two co-ed elementary schools and high schools in Tokyo and Osaka, as well as Soka University and Soka Women's College. In the United States Soka University of America offers both an undergraduate Liberal Arts liberal arts degree and an MA program in educational leadership.

Ikeda has also founded many international non-profit peace and cultural institutions. These include The Institute of Oriental Philosophy, the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, the Min-On Concert Association (promoting intercultural exchange through the performing arts), and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.

In recognition of his contributions to education, culture, and peace, Ikeda has been awarded many professorships from institutes of higher learning in more than 40 countries, including Moscow State University, the University of Bologna, Peking University, the University of Glasgow, the University of Nairobi, City University of New York, Delhi University, the University of Jordan, Panama University, and the University of Sydney. He is also the recipient of the national honors of some 20 countries, the United Nations Peace Medal, the International Tolerance Award of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the Rosa Parks Humanitarian Award, among others.

Born in 1928 to a family that harvested edible seaweed for a living. The fifth son was in his early teens when Japan entered World War II in the 1940s. His direct experience of Japanese militarism and the horror and needless suffering of war left a profound mark and became the chief motivating factor of his later peace activism. His experience of the ultranationalism that characterized education in wartime Japan would also shape Ikeda's belief in, and commitment to the value of humanistic education. The end of the war brought drastic change to Japanese society and its values. As Ikeda writes, "The bizarre system of values drilled into us in the wartime years had been exposed as fraudulent and razed to the ground."

At the age of 19, Ikeda met Josei Toda (1900-1958), who became his lifelong mentor. Toda was an educator and Buddhist philosopher. For his beliefs, during the war, Toda was sent to prison for opposing the policies of the militarist government. Inspired by Toda's humane and compassionate character, his extraordinary insight into human nature and social phenomena, and his deep determination to bring about a positive transformation of society, Ikeda devoted himself to carrying forward his mentor's ideas and vision. "Ninety-eight percent of what I am today," Ikeda has remarked, "I learned from my mentor." Later, Ikeda graduated from Fuji Junior College (present-day Tokyo Fuji University).

Ikeda has undertaken a broad range of activities globally to promote education, peace, and human happiness. A key focus has been the promotion of dialogue. Ikeda has engaged in wide-ranging conversations with a diverse spectrum of individuals worldwide to build bridges of mutual understanding that transcend the divisions of ideology, nationality, religion, etc., and seek out viable solutions to global problems. His citizen diplomacy during the 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations and contributed to the easing of political tensions between China and the Soviet Union.

Over the past five decades, Ikeda has held dialogues with more than a thousand leading figures in politics, education, academia, science, peace activism, business, and the arts. More than 50 of these dialogues have been published in book form and in multiple languages. These include dialogues with British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, the distinguished Chinese novelist Jin Yong, the "father of peace studies" Johan Galtung of Norway, US-based futurist and economist Hazel Henderson, and the Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientists and peace activists Linus Pauling and Joseph Rotblat. The Toynbee-Ikeda dialogue, Choose Life, has been published in 28 languages.

A prolific writer, Ikeda's publications range from philosophy to biographical essays to children's literature. He was named poet laureate by the World Academy of Arts and Culture (1981) and World People's Poet by the World Poetry Society Intercontinental (2007), which, in 1995, conferred its World Poet Laureate Award upon Ikeda. A tireless advocate for peace, Ikeda's vision of a peaceful world has also taken the form of lectures at many of world's leading universities, including Moscow State University, Peking University, and Harvard University.

Among his many endeavors, Ikeda has described the promotion of humanistic education as the culminating undertaking of his life. Now in his 90s, he continues to energetically pursue this vision through his many writings and proposals, dialogues, and constant encouragement of young people, whose development, he says, is his most significant source of joy.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Daisaku Ikeda is an educator, philosopher, prolific author, and peacebuilder whose efforts for the promotion of humanistic education, intercultural dialogue and exchange, and peace has received worldwide recognition. He is the president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) lay Buddhist association.

# data[].attributes.headline
Even one connection to Sensei and SGI formed from this effort

# data[].attributes.subject
Even one connection to Sensei and SGI formed from this effort

# data[].attributes.headline
Continue to shine the light of Sensei's commitment to youth, arts and the diverse cultures and education

# data[].attributes.subject
Continue to shine the light of Sensei's commitment to youth, arts and the diverse cultures and education

# data[].attributes.headline
connect our hearts to Sensei's on a daily basis as we do this work

# data[].attributes.subject
connect our hearts to Sensei's on a daily basis as we do this work

# data[].attributes.headline
shoten zenjin to support us to find the most meaningful homages for Sensei

# data[].attributes.subject
shoten zenjin to support us to find the most meaningful homages for Sensei

# data[].attributes.headline
For us to have the wisdom and courage to create a local support team and find the right people to approach for these honors.

# data[].attributes.subject
For us to have the wisdom and courage to create a local support team and find the right people to approach for these honors.