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筆者が現代の子供たちと接して思うことは
学校教育を受けてはいても、
精神的に成長していない子供が多いことだ。
学校以外での教育も大事にしなければいけない…。
Thinking Outside of Boxes
By JOHN GATHRIGHT
I don't know about you, but the words "school" and "education" create a
fountain of frustration for me. They are so vague.
What is a school? Why are classrooms square? Does it take a box to
create a learning atmosphere?
When I was a kid the "in" thing was to call our school "the box."
When holidays ended, we didn't go back to school but "back to the box!"
These days, "Think outside the box," is a catch phrase. In retrospect,
that is precisely where most of my real thinking and learning took place.
In Bill Gates' book "Business @ the Speed of Thought," he lays out 11
rules that students do not learn in high school or college. Here a few of
them. He argues that our feel-good, politically correct teachings have
created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for
failure in the real world.
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair; get used to it.
Rule No. 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
He doesn't have tenure.
Rule No. 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine
about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but
life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll
give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do
that on your own time.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one.
As the founder of Treeclimbing Japan, I have the opportunity to work
with many Japanese youth at our Treeclimbing School. (No walls, just some
great trees!) To be honest, I often find Japanese youth schooled but not matured. Many haven't learned personal responsibility and educated risk taking.
During the time in the forest kids are responsible for their own safety,
and learning is done in direct relationship to experience and desire to learn.
We tie our own knots but help each other holding safety lines. Gravity
dictates the rules. It is always right!
The forest teaches us perspective. The higher we climb the more real our
vision of life and nature becomes. This summer I will be doing a climbing expedition in California so that Japanese youths can test their limits 100
meters up a giant sequoia.
Japanese youth have the power to excel, reaching great heights in
anything they do. It is my hope that schools will have fewer walls and that
classrooms become less limiting. I hope that more parents and students take
greater responsibility and create more "out of school" education.
Life is often called "the school of hard knocks." Life is not found in
a box (classroom). People learn from personal failure and success, which gives
us experience, wisdom and knowledge.
Life is not school, and school alone will not give you a great future life.
I don't know about you, but the words "school" and "education" create a
fountain of frustration for me. They are so vague.
What is a school? Why are classrooms square? Does it take a box to
create a learning atmosphere?
When I was a kid the "in" thing was to call our school "the box."
When holidays ended, we didn't go back to school but "back to the box!"
These days, "Think outside the box," is a catch phrase. In retrospect,
that is precisely where most of my real thinking and learning took place.
In Bill Gates' book "Business @ the Speed of Thought," he lays out 11
rules that students do not learn in high school or college. Here a few of
them. He argues that our feel-good, politically correct teachings have
created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for
failure in the real world.
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair; get used to it.
Rule No. 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
He doesn't have tenure.
Rule No. 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine
about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but
life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll
give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do
that on your own time.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one.
As the founder of Treeclimbing Japan, I have the opportunity to work
with many Japanese youth at our Treeclimbing School. (No walls, just some
great trees!) To be honest, I often find Japanese youth schooled but not matured. Many haven't learned personal responsibility and educated risk taking.
During the time in the forest kids are responsible for their own safety,
and learning is done in direct relationship to experience and desire to learn.
We tie our own knots but help each other holding safety lines. Gravity
dictates the rules. It is always right!
The forest teaches us perspective. The higher we climb the more real our
vision of life and nature becomes. This summer I will be doing a climbing expedition in California so that Japanese youths can test their limits 100
meters up a giant sequoia.
Japanese youth have the power to excel, reaching great heights in
anything they do. It is my hope that schools will have fewer walls and that
classrooms become less limiting. I hope that more parents and students take
greater responsibility and create more "out of school" education.
Life is often called "the school of hard knocks." Life is not found in
a box (classroom). People learn from personal failure and success, which gives
us experience, wisdom and knowledge.
Life is not school, and school alone will not give you a great future life.
Shukan ST: April 14, 2000
(C) All rights reserved
- fountain of 〜
- 〜 の源
- vague
- 漠然とした
- Does it take 〜 to 〜 ?
- 〜 をするのに 〜 が必要なのだろうか
- learning atmosphere
- 学ぶための環境
- "in"thing
- はやり
- In retrospect
- 振り返ってみると
- "Business @ the Speed of Thought"
- 『思考スピードの経営ーーデジタル経営教本』
- lays out
- 展開する
- feel-good
- 自己満足した
- politically correct
- 表面的には差別や偏見を排除したように見せている
- are set up for failure
- 失敗してもおかしくない
- get used to it
- そのことに慣れなさい
- self-esteem
- 自尊心
- accomplish
- 達成する
- tough
- 厳しい
- doesn't have tenure
- 終身在職権がない(仕事が安定している学校の先生より、競争社会に生きる上司の方があなたに対して厳しいかもしれない、ということ)
- mess up
- 失敗する
- whine
- 愚痴を言う
- have done away with winners and losers
- 勝者と敗者を分けることをやめてきた
- have abolished
- 廃止している
- failing grades
- 落第点
- doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to 〜
- 〜 とはおよそ似つかない
- semesters
- 学期
- don't get summers off
- 毎年夏休みをもらえるわけではない
- nerds
- (社会性がなく趣味や研究にのめり込んだ)おたく
- Chances are 〜
- おそらく 〜 だろう
- (will)end up 〜
- 結局 〜 することになる
- founder
- 発起人
- Treeclimbing Japan
- 筆者が主催する木登りクラブ(http://www.treeclimbingjapan.com)
- schooled
- 教育を受けた
- not matured
- 十分に成長していない
- personal responsibility
- (大人に頼ってばかりでなく)自分のことは自分でやること
- educated risk taking
- 知識や経験に基づいて冒険すること
- tie our own knots
- (ロープを)自分で結ぶ
- safety lines
- 命綱
- Gravity
- 重力
- dictates the rules
- さまざまなルールの中心となる
- perspective
- つり合いのとれた物の見方
- climbing expedition
- 木登りの旅
- giant sequoia
- セコイアヤオスギ(カリフォルニア州産のスギ科の巨木)
- excel
- ほかより優れる
- reaching great heights
- 卓越する
- "the school of hard knocks"
- 失敗や打撃の連続の場
- wisdom
- 知恵