Not many good things one can say about the Japanese school system …

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Comment on 12-Year-Old Girl in Suicide: “I Hadn’t Finished My Homework” by Λ-chan:

Not many good things one can say about the Japanese school system except you should consider yourself fortunate it’s not in your country.
But really there is something very wrong here.
Japan has not produced many Burt Rutan, Bill Gates,Thomas Edison, or Elon Musk types but considering it’s economy it should have.
Why doesn’t Japan have stories of garage startups like Apple making it big and beating the establishment or of startups who pushed the envelope and bucked the trends like Spacex?
I think it’s because if you don’t fit in they make you conform the only outlet for such people in Japan seems to be the video game and Anime industries.

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12-Year-Old Girl in Suicide: “I Hadn’t Finished My Homework”:

To quote uncle Buck though I’m changing the age in the quote. But six or twelve it’s the same BS for kids in Japan. “I don’t think I want to know a 12 year-old who isn’t a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don’t want to know one who takes their student career seriously.”
12-Year-Old Girl in Suicide: “I Hadn’t Finished My Homework”:

The only pressure I had when I was 12 was I would get a reward if I got good grades. If I got a bad grade no reward and they might withhold my allowance except for lunch money. No money for toys,candy etc.

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