It was in this atmosphere that a new and fresh ideal on the girls’ secondary education had been looking for. That was exactly the ideal of “Good Wife, Wise Mother.” This newthought supported the secondary education for women by providing it with a theoretical justification.“Good wife and Wise mother” ideal gave positive meanings for the first time to the role of women as a wife in managing household, and as a mother in raising and educating her children. It rationalized the contributions of women to the development of the society as whole through their roles such as assistance to her husband who engaged to the productive works and military service, and as raising the next generation of citizens. It nobly argued that education for women as wives and mothers was beneficial to the nation in the same way as education for men.This ideal became preponderant in Japanese society with advent of the 20th century and gained the position of officially recognized ideal of the education of women.