An excerpt from a speech given by Daisaku Ikeda in his role as the founder of Soka University of America (SUA) at the first commencement ceremony of SUA held at the Aliso Viejo campus on May 22, 2005. Schools: Studies in Education 7, no. 2 (Fall 2010).
This book contains English and Japanese versions of essays by Daisaku Ikeda that first appeared in the English-Japanese newspaper The Japan Times between September 2003 and January 2008.
Ikeda, Daisaku. "Acceptance Speech of the Thoreau Society Honorary Life Membership at the Soka University Alumni Gathering: May 5, 2001." In The Thoreau Society Bulletin no. 236 (2001): 12-13.