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In the Japanese high school where I taught English they had a class (once a week) for how to integrate into society. It taught everything from how to enter a s
by mikekchar 7y ago
In the Japanese high school where I taught English they had a class (once a week) for how to integrate into society. It taught everything from how to enter a stranger's house, how to greet people, how to bow, etc, all the way up to what is your life going to be like when you graduate (low level school, where more than 50% were going straight into jobs from high school). I begged them to let me sit in on it, but they said no :-( (Unfortunately unseemly for a teacher to be seen as not knowing this stuff already...). I really wish that schools put a higher emphasis on this kind of stuff rather than the 5Rs (err... how many Rs are there again...? :-) )
I bet there is a market for: My life is a mess - I can't seem to do anything right - Can you teach me the basics of getting along in society - Education. Well... I suppose the self-help market is a good indication of that, but I mean taking perhaps a more structured approach.