Japanese education Yutori education

 Yesterday's newspapar told that the recovery of Japanese education.
The news showed the result of reserch on education between countries.
The test was conducted by OECD. And it tested the abilities, such as
mathmatic literacy, ability to read and understand, science literacy.
Japan was 7th at the mathmatic literacy, 4th at the ability to read and
understand, 4th at the science literacy. That seems to sound nice.
 Looking at the countries which are higher than Japan, Asian cities
are seen, such as Shanhai, HongKong, Singapore. (I don't know
why they researched Shanhai, HongKong not China. Maybe there
are too many population and it would be difficult to servey)

  Maybe Shanhai, HonKong and Singapore are rich countries.
People's living standard would be much higher than the average of
Japan. So, people would be able to pay a lot of money for children.
 
  Besides that result of research, the newspapers told the result
 got better compared to a few years ago because Japanese education
system changed from "Yutori" education.
 What's Yutori education?

 That is the movement of about more than 10 years ago. The goverment
decreased the assignment of each subject. And people used to insist on
the decrease of Children's task because they thought children needed to
take a rest more. Yutori education means "education free of pressure".
 As the result, I heard that children, especially those who are lazy( most of
children are lazy...hahaha) became to escape from studying.
 After the discussion, Japanese government shifted the policy to
increasing the assignments again.

 Japanese education has been aware of focusing on the ability to
"think" not just "memolizing". The high level private school gives
the entrance examination of such test. They test how much children
can "think".

 Japanese people tend to lower the self-esteem. In spite of the reslt of the
result, some people may think Japanese education system is running later
than Western countries's education.