As far as "value-creation" its all a slippery slope.
Of course, SGI sells a version of what that means, that sounds like a good thing.
If a school is going to sell a religious idea embedded in the schools structure, they need to be UP FRONT about it, so people know what they are getting in for. There is no way that regular people know what they are getting in for, with a SGI school.
But of course for SGI, its all part of a long-term plan, to bring SGI to the center of each society, and you get there by going after the kids. And what better way, than by setting up these SGI Soka schools.
But in fact, what the overall SGI is, is re-engineering the Values of their members. They turn Buddhism upside down and backasswards, so in that sense SGI is literally creating values.
One of the first people to talk about "creating values" was the philosopher Nietzsche. [
en.wikipedia.org]
They reject the values of the christian world of the day, and install a Master Morality, and create their own values. The man becomes a God.
This is Daisaku Ikeda in spades.
Since he sees himself as the Buddha, that means he can create values, and he has done so, inverting Buddhism into its opposite, while calling it the same thing.
So in fact, from this perspective, SGI Soka Gakkai is in fact about "creating values" as they have creating an entire new value system for members, and a different one for SGI leaders.
For example, its ok for an SGI leader to lie to protect SGI in their mind, but its not ok for the SGI member to lie to their leader.
Bottom line, is that Ikeda sees himself as a type of Nietzschian Ubermensch Buddha Billionaire, who can do whatever he wants. He creates his own history, and creates his own values, and in his mind he'e redefined Buddhism into his own thing.
So there may be a semantic distinction between "creating value" and "creating values", but in fact that perfectly describes what SGI is really all about.
Human Revolution = Creating (SGI) Values in people
And now they are aiming at kids in the west with these charter schools.