Education; how it differs from culture to culture.

 In the last class we talked about various things related to education, including but not limited to:

• Etiquette when it comes to answering questions
• Behaviors when it comes to being asked a question
• Cram school
• How you would prefer to be taught(Lecture/Discussions/Projects)

And although there weren't any Japanese students with us this week, we had two guests from China which supposedly have similar cultural approaches to many things, to start things off we looked at a graph comparing countries and how many hours of class they have, and to my surprise Japan was not number one, until I discovered that that chart only took into account actual school hours and didn't count anything extra like cram school or club activities, which then made the list make more sense.

 Getting into more details, we compared our answers to some of the questions like, what are the two reasons people don't answer a question when a teacher singles them out, and the two most popular picks were the student not knowing the answer or the student not being confident in their answer, it is also what I picked because I believe in most cases it is either one of those two or maybe sometimes being scared to answer because your teachers strict and would end your bloodline if you got the answer wrong.

Lastly, we talked about cram school, it seems that cram schools are very prominent in Japanese culture and to my surprise some of my European classmates also attended it, in the Middle East they do exist but they aren't as common and options like tutoring are far more popular, though when asked if we would personally send our future children to cram schools, no was a very popular answer although some said they would consider it if their child really wanted to get into something that would probably benefit from the extra study hours.