Chapter 108 Combining social realities and school issues for reform

Only by adopting reform measures that combine social reality and school problems can it be clear what kind of education system Japan should adopt in the future.Let’s end the question about the English teacher first, and now let’s talk about the replacement of the teacher. Although there is a very strict review system for teacher qualification certificates, who knows "what kind of people should be allowed to teach our children"?The reason for this confusion is that Japan has never reformed education. In fact, all along, the policies issued by the Ministry of Education and Culture are just changing the soup without changing the medicine, and there is nothing worth looking forward to.Because when Japanese teachers are looking for some changes, the Ministry of Education, the Board of Education, and parents who don't know much about the nature of the matter will intervene.Under such interference, only schools like Hetian Middle School can be reformed because their principals are recruited from the private sector, while other schools are dead.

A plan was put forward at the Education Freshman Conference, which is to require public schools to vigorously recruit teachers of related occupations from the society. It is planned that the number of such teachers will reach 10 times the current number in five years, that is to say, the government will 500 teachers will be recruited from the society.The plan itself is good, but the approach is not the kind of reform I expected.And if such measures are merely aimed at filling vacancies for retired teachers, reform is even more hopeless. So, what should we do? It is an exaggeration to say that it is to allow all people in the society to participate in school education, so that the school will undergo such a drastic change.Therefore, it is not enough to include only some people as teachers, and we should try our best to let more people in the society participate in school education.For example, let the boss of Yabaiya come to the school to tell the students about the purchase, or talk about how much loss it will cause if the radish goes bad before it is sold.A man of business is more persuasive in this respect than a schoolteacher.In addition, let the firefighters talk about the possibility of cigarette butts causing fires, and let the lawyers talk about the legal consequences if the debt is not paid... Like this, let people of different professions explain the knowledge in a way that is closer to real life method is the best.

The combination of society and schools is what is needed now, and this is the direction that schools should be facing. It is also useless to expect changes in today's professional teachers, because they cannot keep up with the times.In the closed environment of the "school" with guaranteed status, they will not experience things outside the school.They have not experienced hardships such as economic depression and bankruptcy crisis.Much of the same is happening with boards of education in most districts, a classic symptom of the downfall of organizations that have become fatigued by the system.

The practice of asking people suffering from this disease to "come up with countermeasures" is the reason why education reform has not found a fundamental solution.In other words, people who fall into this pathology cannot educate students.