Think different. Do unusual.

 At the last class, we watched a videoclip about education.

We understood that the education system of Japan is out of date.

We students and also teachers in Japan can’t use technologies enough that improve a quality of study aggressively, and even children of elementary school in HongKong can use them. What a shame... We discussed and found some ideas to solve this problem. 

 First, we need more high skilled teachers who go along at this generation of technology. Almost all the teachers in Japan don’t allow us to use our phones, tablets, laptops, or such useful devices for studying. It’s because they have a foolish pride I think. They think that if we are allowed to use them, we don’t listen to them and just wast time, but it’s a teacher’s responsibility to make us interested in their class. And also, teacher’s job is to teach for high motivated students so there are no needs to attract attention of unmotivated students. Teachers always want everyone to listen to his/her lectures and I can understand it, but it’s not the way teaching in high schools or universities because these are not included into the compulsory education system. I want to show teachers this videoclip that Rab showed us during the class.↓

 Second, governments have to stop lecturing useless knowledges that we will never use in the future. What they have to teach are useful, practical knowledges. We students and our parents pay a lot of money for it but not for that.

However, it was really hard to get specific ideas though we discussed a lot in this way.

Then, Rab taught us about a ’20%’ rule of the Google company. The importance of the ’20%’ is immeasurable. All of the employees have to concentrate on their work for just 20% of work time per day and they can do anything they want to, like drinking eating netsurfing and talking with people. But they hit up to new, creative ideas. Why? The reason is simple. The creative ideas that turn our life upside down are almost always born from our daily life. We can’t hit upon ideas with sitting in front of a work desk and just thinking a lot, because the ideas of better things that we need will be laid on our daily life but not laid down there.  So they purposely make time to get daily life experiences with laid-backing for coming up with new ideas.

Rab often says, doing unusual is the key point to be successful. It will make something new that no one has been bethought. But now we know it's really difficult because our blains do 'the limited thinking' we've already learned. So I've continued to be free from it since then.

 I think that the fundamental problem is the government doesn’t seriously try to make the best place for us to learn things. They still have a foolish pride and in a self-defense situation. The first thing we have to change is them, maybe...

I love the catchphrase ’Think different.’ by Apple. 

I want to be a person who can think different and do unusual.

Now we have to try harder to make better surroundings for everyone.
Why don't we do so together?