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-Centering on Examination War

The Japanese examination war is very keen. It is valued by the deviation. This influence on not only high school students but also middle school students, elementary school students, and even on children who go to kindergarden. Therefore, a lot of people go to crammer to study besides originally ought to study in school. By this, it looks like the free time for children is decreasing year by year. I hope they have various experiences other than examination in their puberty. Because, there are something they can do in their childhood and it would be late in adulthood. And I think that having various experiences other than examination would make their own broad personal characters.

Especially, there is a system called preparatory school for university admission examination in Japan. It is not unusual that the high school studets go to preparatory school at the same time going to high school. There they are hammerd various techinique for examinations into their heads. And they forget as they enter university. So you may think it is fine for them not to do that way, but I oppose to such thought. Some of study for examination may be useful in future in its own way and some are not. Even so, I think it is not right to remove not useful one. I think that is , as I said before, to make broad personal characteristic and if they know other fields at some extent, they are able to see their own present position or target clearly. In other words, it is similar to recognize Japanese is special after learning English and French.

But, I have an object to this examination education. Since they are paper exam, in the actual classes unlively classes with memory inclination are conspicuous. For example, I think there are more prgrams to do more experiments or to let students think more.

I dwell on it at great length but for the time being I hope for examination education which is the basis of Japanese education system would change into nice direction.


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