I went to Kyoto for attending Professor’s Lecture as a representative staff of our lab. My main work was setting equipments for presentation, after that I could listen the conference about “KEITAI”. (According to the conference staff, “KEITAI” means not only mobile phone but more large abstract concept.) There are three panelists, the vice president of Microsoft Mr. Doyama, the CEO of venture company Mr. Naito and our Professor Dr.Kawasaki. It was interesting that Professor sit in the desk with the board of Microsoft, but more interesting thing was that they had almost the same cognition to the future. I will write this blog about this cognition. It will become basis of the new future.
I had a small talk with two education minded mothers who are mothers of kids I teach soccer. Throughout the conversation, I could understand that they had a strong passion to give good education to their children but they didn’t know how to do. Therefore, they let elementary school students go to cramming school with spending much money. It’s too early for them to do, because they don’t know its need and importance. Originally I think there could be no need in cramming for exam. At all, I think that we have to change education minded mother’s way of thinking to change Japanese Education system.
This blog welcomed so many accesses than usual on March 11th. I felt a little fear though I should be grateful to this incident, because of words from my friend “You are attacked now.”
Therefore, I want to state my stance to this blog. I think writing blog is ascetic training of making logical and English. I make my thought concrete by writing sentences, so my thought is always not sure. If there is a more logical opinion than mine, I don’t hesitate to adopt it. However, when I do it, I will account for the reason why I changed my opinion.
Journalist is the job to chase the “fact” by own foot for people’s right to know. They should work as a dedicated public servant only with justice. (I think the definition of justice was vague but it will be suit as a motivation. The word always be with the weak.) It is because they can control the public mind by to report one aspect of the fact. In modern society when media is changing and improving, the ideal situation of them have not changed.
The conventional media almost consists of advertisement, so the fact we want to know are cut needlessly by intention of advertising client. In Internet age, old media will completely collapse by interactioness of Internet. I feel the difference of the power at this time is very large, but since it became conspicuous impetuously, there are many unfit things. I suppose many people have already realized that moral maintenance is more important than law maintenance. Therefore, moral generation will come.
Now Serkan issues are boomed in the Internet. The issues are suspicion of fraud in application for employment by Mr. Serkan Anilir, a former assistant professor of University of Tokyo. I caught this topic from my professor’s tweet and I don’t know him, so I won’t mention them whether correct or not. Though I have no interest about its result, I have interest about Net Journalism caused the happening that doctor’s degree were deprived at the first time in University of Tokyo.
In here, I state my attitude first, I’m not critic of Internet and Net Journalism at all. Rather I welcome them, I hope that they defeat conventional media gaining established interest. Therefore, I want to comment about the role of them. I means the insincerity of anonymity.
Information on Internet can’t remove its indefiniteness because it can be altered or deleted easily. Therefore, I think it doesn’t have validity. I encourage a discussion on Internet with anonymity but I refuse a feedback from them to real world. It need executor’s name as a seal, if it do something. I think there is no necessity to struggle with information that can’t understand the origin.
I proposed some methods for educational revolution. In the articles, I stated the relationship between education and employment. It is because I think it is natural thing for people to study something for their job except a few special cases in developed country.
However, considering future with highly developed technology, it is always correct? Many things have automated in this modern society. I think almost all things can be automated if it becomes very serious. Why didn’t we do that? The reason is just only cost. It means that to employ a door boy is cheaper than to adopt a automatic door. I know this story is an extreme examples but there is no doubt about that it’s getting true. All employment may be robbed by machine in near future.
I changed title of my recent articles because my propose was not to aim only high school education. In their sentences, I pointed two problems but what need to change most may be the mind of people who get education.
There is a strange story, the title is “If the world were a village of 100 doctors (In Japanese).” The author clearly had a enmity so I felt disamenity but I felt more disamenity about effectiveness of doctors. The honor that I’m aspiring to be is not like that. The doctor should be the master of knowledge, so the Ph.D is not the word that means some nerd. They should know anything or they can understand them at once. Suicide is out of the question.
I think the cause of this is the mind of the side that get education. The students should know the fact that they always must think what we do after getting knowledge. It means all people should manage themselves. The side that serve education must teach how to learn and the side receive education must gaze the future after education.
Second, I propose Japanese government to establish a national scholarship which have no screening and no interest, it will be distributed to students in any cases if they have will to study.
This method can provide chances to study to all people equally and government can call in a investment for education, because it mean nearly debt. Thanks to these effect, it can increase people’s belongingness to nation. This method requires the fact every one who took this scholarship work for cleaning their debt, so government needs to make a system directly connected with employment at the same time. It is very hard but it have monetary connections with worker, so it will seem to be easier than ever. Of course, there will be criminals who do not pay their debt, I think government should charge them with treason.
I continue the story of yesterday’s article, I want to propose concrete method of educational revolution to make new Japan. In this article, I won’t discuss detail way how to teach students because the perfect answer does not exist, if I have to point it, there are no way but to increase teacher’s skill. Therefore, I make a proposal to change national scheme. This concept started with the problem of high school education but it will cover all problems about education.
At first, Japan should admit credit system and grade skipping. Japan adopt grade system for the reason that many people believe education should be “Equal education”. It is clearly wrong. Certainly, the chance to take education must be equal to all people, but the reward and the result of each student may have the differences. This method leads people to admit the differences from other people, and it can make some elites more easily. If people couldn’t admit the differences, it bring only envy. However, this method have possibilities to hurt people who have problem to study something like handicapped, disability or impairment. The government have to protect them with making many special school for them.
Since Waseda’s entrance exam is very strange, I made it a victim of yesterday’s article. However, a lot of entrance exams in Japan have a problem. That is the fact they become goal of students even though they are only method. Therefore, I propose to change it better. For the purpose of it, at first, I have to think that what kind of people does Japan in future look for. Considering globalism, aged society and the collapse of capitalism, I list below three types.
1. People who can move other people’s heart.
2. People who have broad knowledge and skill to learn other skills quickly.
3. People who can work for the vulnerable groups.
1. means some geniuses, top athletes or leaders. Japan needs to acknowledge the difference from others, and make some top gun.
2. In future of Japan, I think there will be little job. Therefore, many people need to change or search their job. It is required abilities even old people.
3. It is based on aged society. The medical technology will become more developed in future Japan, so vulnerable groups will increase. It means Japanese society will have to support them.