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KIKUCHI Dairoku (菊池大麓, 1855-1917), one of the pioneers of modern mathematical education in Japan, held the posts of, professor at the School of Science, Tokyo University; chancellor at Imperial University (successor of Tokyo University, and the predecessor of the University of Tokyo); Minister of Education; chancellor at Kyoto Imperial University; and so on. He thought that the purpose of both higher and secondary education is to bring up students or pupils to obtain the knowledge voluntarily and to solve various kinds of problems. According to this view, there should be no essential difference between both stages of education, because both should have the keyword “research” as the element of study. And the points, which you can find when you observe Kikuchi’s life in detail, show that Kikuchi aimed, on one hand, to bring up various kinds of talented people who seek knowledge ordinarily and voluntarily, and on the other hand, to make Japan supported by each of them. For this reason, “diversity” and “unification” pointed toward the same direction in his idea.