Chapter 110 Solving conversations between parents and children as a topic

In the spring of 2007, I expanded my scope of operations to include high school.The wide-area communication course of Toba High School in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture is my management project, which is a distance education using the Internet.With this system, students can prepare for the gaokao in their own home and complete the course from anywhere in the world. I want to solve the problem of "how to cultivate students' thinking ability" in this way, and develop an education that explores "how to find answers in the unknown world" as opposed to "〇X-style education".

In addition, regarding the issue of "thinking ability", you can also listen to the special lecture given by the BBT Graduate School University, where I am the president of the university, for high school students. As I said earlier, this is a communication education system, so there is no need for this, the time is not so tight, so there is enough time for sports, learning to play the piano, playing with the computer, etc.In addition, if a student cannot stay in Japan due to reasons such as a parent's assignment, the same applies to studying abroad. This system can not only realize the education of high school students, but also the beginning of "parent education".

If you want to enter my class to study, you must abide by one principle, that is, parents must study with their children.Because I want to enable parents and children to develop the ability to think in this way. For this reason, I will ask applicants such topics as "asking parents and children to have such a conversation".Parents and children decide on the topic of conversation and then hand it over to me. Although many people who want to enter the school will run away at this point, there are also parents and children who overcome difficulties and complete the topic seriously. Hearing this, some people may think why do they have to do this?Because without this kind of guidance, parents and children in Japanese families today cannot talk at all.

"How is studying? Have you done your homework?" "Not yet"—it's just a conversation, but not a conversation.Aiming at a problem, exchanging opinions is a conversation and thinking can be formed. Think about the current situation of Japanese families, the opportunities for parents and children to eat together are constantly decreasing.Even if we eat together, most of the time we eat while watching TV. So the parent and the child don't talk at all, and if they do, it's about the TV show, but it's not a real conversation. So, if I turn off the TV and talk to my kids from now on, I believe IQ decline will stop.