Taizo Miake believed in educating through play, pulling levers, pressing buttons. Is his legacy now under threat?
is on record as opposing the Ontario Place redevelopment, and her accession into the mayor’s office has the potential to disrupt Ford’s plans.
Neither Miake nor any of the ex-students had science degrees. This lack of scientific education appealed to Moriyama. “It was a good thing,” he says. Miake “tended to look at things from a humanity side.” Creative juices really started flowing when the teams commenced a weekly quitting-hour routine. “Every Friday at five o’clock, we would get together in what we called the beer sessions — it was really to get close to one another in our thinking.”
The elder of two children, Taizo Miake was born in 1926 in Tokyo and moved at age three with his parents and brother to Hawaii, where his father, a Buddhist priest, oversaw a mission in central Honolulu. When the U.S. declared war on Japan, his father was repatriated while the rest of the family remained in Hawaii.
Construction delays and staff resignations pushed the centre’s opening past July 1, 1967. An additional two years lapsed before the official ribbon cutting. In the meantime, Miake and his team, which had grown to about 100 staff, concocted and assembled exhibits in a huge rented workshop on premises in a nearby industrial park.
Miake told a reporter, “Education is a learning, not a teaching process.” He said he believed in the benefits of educating through play, pulling levers, pressing buttons and engaging the senses.
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