Are you dissatisfied with the domestic system of secondary education? Learn how to learn in Japan and what incredible restrictions Japanese children face from early childhood!
Far Japan does not cease to amaze with its unusual, and sometimes even strange traditions. It has features and an education system, which is fundamentally different from the usual for post-Soviet countries. It will be interesting to know what would surprise our students in Japan.
1. The school year starts in the spring!
Children begin to learn not in September, but in April. Only there comes heat, trees bloom, I want to walk on the street, but here you need to take textbooks and go to school - horror! The rule of Japanese schools that summer holidays last only a month and a half, can become a scarecrow for our children. In winter and spring they have a rest about 10 days. Another fact that is not clear for us is study on the day off (Saturday). As for the duration of the school day, it lasts from about 8:30 to 15:00.
2. No more than two friends in the class for a year.
We are used to learning in one school during our school life, but for Japanese students this rule is unfamiliar. Every year, all students of the parallel are randomly assigned to classes, but the student has the opportunity not to part with close friends, and for this he must write their names (no more than two) in a special questionnaire. Perhaps it helps to get comfortable in the society, but it looks, at least, strange.
3. Numbered schoolchildren.
The next rule in Japanese schools is somewhat similar to those used in places of detention, since each student is assigned an individual number consisting of four figures. It is used for signing works, going to libraries and so on.
4. Schedule-surprise.
Perhaps the developers of the education system in Japan, like surprises, because every week in schools, students receive a new schedule of lessons. As if to such updates our students are hard to foresee.
5. Changes? No, they did not.
If you ask our children what you like most about school, the most popular answer is a change. Japanese schoolchildren are deprived of this pleasure, as they learn all day, and only make one lunch break. It seems that from the very childhood the Japanese are preparing for the hardships of adulthood.
6. Brushed your teeth? I wrote it down in a diary!
The diary that the Japanese children lead is not at all like the one we often forgot at home. In it they record not only the lessons, but also the full schedule of their day: what time they got up, when they brushed their teeth and so on. It seems that the children of Japan are under constant control. In general, no personal life.
7. Who is the toilet attendant?
If in our schools pupils are cleaned only in classes, and then this rule is not used in all educational institutions, in Japan children have to put things in order in other premises, including toilets. Just imagine that after the lessons the schoolchildren have to wash the floors, windows and not only.
8. There are no colons!
We often, not having learned a lesson, went to school with shaky knees, experiencing a deuce, and so the Japanese schoolchildren are not threatened. It's very simple: he prepared his homework, he was circled in a red circle, if not, then they fixed the debt. Even in Japan, no one is left in the second year, even if the student lags behind others.
9. Japanese schoolchildren are easy to recognize by the color of socks.
In schools there are strict limitations on the appearance. For example, no experiments with hair color, and boys should wear only short hairstyles. It will be surprising for girls that if they were studying in Japan, they would not be able to apply makeup, dye their nails and wear jewelry. The rules are so strict that the management watches even for the color of socks, which should be black, white or dark blue. For our society, it looks like madness.
10. Quiet time.
Many during school lessons recalled the garden, or rather about a quiet hour, because it would be so good to push notebooks and textbooks and just take a nap. This privilege is in schools in Japan, where children have the right to a ten-minute sleep on the desks.
11. Knowledge is power, hieroglyphs are power!
Just imagine, Japanese children should learn to read and write in three ways: Japanese hieroglyphs, Japanese version of Chinese characters and the Latin alphabet. What exactly would please our students - the availability of Internet in the school and the use of modern information technologies in teaching.
12. Sasumata instead of a poster.
In Japan, in schools, not posters or training stands hang on a wall, and weapons - yes, you did not hear! Near the door in each class you can see Sasumat - Japanese combat grip, which, if necessary, the teacher will be able to protect children from attack, for example, a thief.
Bonus fact at number 13. Japanese schoolgirls do not erase panties, they earn them!
Many in the childhood earned additionally in different ways, for example, they helped their mother at home or walked their neighbor's dog. A strange way to earn money was found by Japanese schoolgirls who sell (attention!) Their dirty panties. Unfortunately, there are a lot of perverts in the world, and Japan is not an exception, therefore such goods are very in demand.