Chapter 100 What kind of talents does Japan need?

In the 21st century, the great economic development of many emerging countries is making great strides to catch up with us.Against this background, I think Japanese education should cultivate talents who can protect Japan.In other words, those who can be called talents in the future must be those who have the courage to challenge themselves "in a world without standard answers", or "those who can make a difference anywhere in the world". Whether Japan can have a bright future depends on whether Japanese education can cultivate such talents.Without such talents, the "hundred-year plan" of the entire country would be out of the question.So what we have to do now is not to return to the previous education system, but to fundamentally change the current education system.

In Japan, as soon as a school bullying incident occurs, people will think that it is caused by the decline of students' learning ability, and then put all the responsibility on the government, urging the government to "take some measures." However, this alone will not solve any problems. We must learn to see the essence through the phenomenon. When encountering such a problem, we must first analyze the root cause of the problem, and finally raise it to discuss what kind of education system Japan should adopt in the future.Of course, before this, all Japanese citizens need to think about such a question: "What is the weight of Japan's future survival in the world?" The raising of this question has helped us find a clear goal, and parents will also understand what should be done. What kind of knowledge and skills to teach children.

However, it is a pity that neither the Ministry of Education, the Education Freshman Conference, nor those who criticize quality education, even the parents of students, lack the ability to see the essence of the problem. If future educational institutions are compared to factories producing "talents", what principles should they follow in their production?Is it the elites in the field of production and finance, the elites in the IT field, the elites in the linguistics field, or what I call talents who have the ability to think and solve practical problems? Please think about this issue carefully anyway.

My answer is "wizards". This kind of talent must be a person who has the ability to think and strive to explore the world, and is a unique person. Regarding this issue, I will introduce it in detail at the end of this chapter, but what I want to explain here is that Japan lacks independent and imaginative people who can be independent and imaginative in this "world without answers", whether in the political field or the economic field. Alternative talent.