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- From: dirceu@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp (Dirceu G. Cavendish Jr.)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Date: 23 Dec 92 05:20:02 GMT
- Organization: Kyushu Institute of Tech., Iizuka, JAPAN.
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- In-reply-to: irie@husc11.harvard.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 09:22:49 GMT
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- In article <IRIE.92Dec21012249@husc11.harvard.edu> irie@husc11.harvard.edu (Robert E. Irie) writes:
-
- >As for educational differences between the two countries, I ask you to
- >consider this: in the streets and subways of NY and Boston (those are
- >the two cities in which I have lived for extended periods of times) I
- >see juveniles/teenagers cursing, drinking and generally harassing
- >people. Most of them, if they go to school at all, cut classes
- >frequently. In NY, I know of several highschools where it is unusual
- >to have a day without gunshots or stabbings. I wont even mention the
- >drug problem concerning kids in all major cities. From visiting Japan
- >and listenign to Japanese news, I have not encountered an equivalent
- >situation. (I will be interested if people living there now could
- >respond) To me, no matter how "bad" the Japanese educational system
- >is, (ie- doesnt make Japanese people as literate as they claim,
- >stifles creativity, etc etc) its ability to produce useful citizens
- > who work and contribute to society insead of ruin it, makes it
- >"better" than the US system.
- >
- >
- >--
- >File: AW esome .sig REVIEW/SEE/ADMIRE Escape: Reality
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- >Robert E. Irie irie@husc.harvard.edu
- >Senior ES Major, Harvard College irie@husc.bitnet
- >Harvard Robotics Laboratory irie@hrl.harvard.edu
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- They DO produce useful citizens ready to work hard to their society.
- BUT whom is society supposed to work well for? It's citizens. What I
- mean is: social sense - individuality. Two extreme points. Neither of
- them are healthy. We shall find a balance... Japanese society works in
- the left side (and their citizens pay a high price, in my opinion),
- westerns (in general) in the right one.
-
- Dirceu
-