Lack of Education in Japan

Lack of Education in Japan

                My country, Japan, has had problem about lack of education for a long time. I think there are several way to fix this issue.

First of all, most students lack of education of Japanese, which is the most important subject for Japanese people, so we should change to educate Japanese to students. Despite of our own country, some Japanese people tend to have poor Japanese skills. Few people tend to read books and newspapers, few people can’t speak Japanese correctly, and some people don’t know various words like phrases and proverbs; lack of vocabulary. The lack of Japanese affects all us when we learn the other subject, when we talk others especially with older people, and when we get a job in the future. For example, it’s effective way for student to have them to read books or newspapers everyday and write essays and summarizes about that. In addition, students should be educated how to use honorifics correctly.

Second, most people is lacking of other important skills like foreign language and scientific subject. English is the universal language in the world, some Japanese companies has been requiring person who is good at English, so learning English is one of the most important thing for Japanese. However, it seems that Japanese are not good at English. Japanese pronunciation is totally different from English, so it is very difficult for us to improve English pronunciation. Also, there is no opportunity to speak English in Japan unless we try to get such a chance independently. Then some employees often have difficulty in communicating with foreigners in Japan. Because of these disadvantages, I think all elementary school should introduce English education more actively. Moreover, scientific subjects like science and mathematics is also very important subject for people. Because of difficulty in learning these subject, some people give up to learn that including me. However, scientific subject is actually necessary to develop of logical thinking, so schools should improve these subject to teach students more.

In addition to improve important subject, Japanese schools had better to increasing school hours. For example, they should have classes on Saturdays and reduce the term of long vacations. Unless students have school, and they are forced to study, they tend to never study by themselves. The more opportunity to study students have, the more effectively they can learn.

Finally, Japanese schools ought to change systems to evaluate teachers in order to improve their quality. Nowadays, there are many criticisms and dissatisfactions toward quality of teaches in Japan. Originally, teachers can be teach students until compulsory retirement once they get teacher’s certificate. Then schools should investigate about evaluation of teachers periodically, and they should be fired in case that there are many bad evaluations.

In short, although the luck of education is one of the most serious problem in Japan, there are some effective ways to improve. Then Japanese schools have to think over how to change bad situation about education in the future.