Education ministry to teach students to think.
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on February 16th, 2008
Government eyes increase in class hours
The education ministry on Friday unveiled a draft of new teaching guidelines for primary and middle schools that would increase classroom hours for arithmetic and mathematics as well as science subjects by around 15 percent during the nine-year study period, in a departure from the current guidelines, which emphasize “education with latitude.” …
As in the current guidelines, the new guidelines’ basic philosophy is “to foster the power to live.” To improve the ability to think, judge and express oneself, the new guidelines attach importance to activities such as observation, conducting experiments and writing reports.
Right. We need to make sure that the ability to think, judge and express oneself is completely consistent throughout Japan.