吉川英治の「ストレート・トーク」

Cold mothers

Japanese mothers look angry and

selfish because they are.

Japanese mothers overseas look

very cold hearted and bored especially

when husbands are Japanese.

Who suffer the most?

Children no matter where they are.

ブルース・リーのカップ

今、信じてる考えを捨てきらなきゃ、

なんにも入って来ない。
ー ブルース・リー

Grow or get rotten

There are two kinds of people.

Those who keep growing and those

who keep getting worse.

- Among children .. 25% grow and 75%

go down (due to video games and such

bought and given by parents).

- Adults .. 3% grow (especially travelers)

and 97% get worse (half of them slowly

and the other half hopelessly).

2種類の人がいる :

学び、成長し続ける人と悪化する人。

「横ばい」は、ない。

子供、若者では25%がよくなる。

ビデオゲーム等のせいで残りはダメ。

親が買ったゲームで。

大人では、(甘く見れば) 3% が伸びる。

残り97%のうち半分はもう手遅れ。

あと半分は、ゆっくり下がる。

Passport control

"Came to this country for the annual symposium?

What do you talk about?"

.. Those who have no idea about anything

about education, the bigger and smarter world

are in charge of judging on educated people.
The folks with eneducated heads but with guns

greet you first at every country you visit.

No omes, hotels, shops would do such thing.

We often overhear Q&A that are not

making sense at all.
Spending lots of money to bring down

the quality to deep bottom while you also

spend lots on clean-looking advertising on tourism.

国際的な教養をどんどん増やす人たちに

「何の用で？」と担当者。

「世界子供心理学会シンポジウムで」と答える学者。

「何を話す？誰が来る？」と担当者。

「.... を話す」と学者。

世界を全然知らない人、教養が全然追っつかない人が

パスポートの審査をしてるのが面白い。

その国の玄関で一番に登場するのが

腰に拳銃をぶら下げた無教養人種。

料理できない人がクッキング大会の審判？
観光の宣伝にいーっぱいお金使って、

到着した人を出迎えるのは非常識蛮人。

「なあ、さくら、学がないってのは悲しいよ」

と寅さんも言ってた。

Definition of stupid

One definition of stupid :
Telling smarter people what to think and what to do.

バカタレの定義 ：
自分よりもうんと賢い人に講義する

365 new days

365 brand new days per year are given
to everyone and no days are any new.
3650 new days per 10 years .. still the same.

1年に365日の新品の一日が贈られても、
やってることは古いことのみ。
10年で3650日だけど、同じ。
内容は高まらない。惰性と慢性。
家を買ったり、建てたり、
結婚したりする度に悪化。
いいことしたと信じてるけど。

Borderlines

Before drawing them on the maps,

borderlines are drawn in your mind.

Little guys draw more borders everywhere.

国境線は、地図に引かれる前に

心に引かれてる。

小さい人間ほど、すべてに線を引く。

言われたくないこと

人が言われたくない

肝心要(かんじんかなめ)ことを言う。

その人がずっと避けてるから。

自分の知らんぷりを弁護し、正当化してるから。

それが子どもや家族や社会の害になってるから。

嫌われるし、悪者扱いされるけど関係ない。

それを言わない奴は悪の一味。

結局、何も言わない伝統は子どもに引き継がれる。

楽チン社会の作り方

政府は学校を利用して
「現状に満足する」
「なんの疑問も持たず」
「行動は一切起こさず」
「自分の子供をへっちゃらで同じ町で育て」
「思いどおりによく働き」
「言われたとおりに納税する」
「つまり、完全なロボット」
という洗脳を行なっている。
それを教育と呼んで。

Complete ignorance

Only by getting out of your island or

continent, you get to know not only

about the other side of the ocean

but also about your own little place.

If you stay there, you know nothing about nowhere.

住んでる島や大陸を離れなきゃ、

外の世界も自分の小島のこともわからない。

つまり、完全な無知。

なのにママやパパになって、

知ったようなことを強制する。

Death of a nation

Humanities under attack
BY TAKAMITSU SAWA
AUG 23, 2015 ARTICLE HISTORY PRINT SHARE
HIKONE, SHIGA PREFECTURE – On June 8, all presidents of national universities received a notice from the education minister telling them to either abolish their undergraduate departments and graduate schools devoted to the humanities and social sciences or shift their curricula to fields with greater utilitarian values.

The bad tradition of evaluating academic learning and sciences in terms of their utility, with private-sector enterprises meddling in higher education, is still alive in Japan.

Indeed, policies related to higher education are under the control of the Council on Industrial Competitiveness, which is made up of nine Cabinet ministers, seven corporate managers and two scholars. One of the scholars is from the field of engineering while the other comes from economics.

A member of the education ministry’s panel of learned persons even said that the humanities and social sciences departments should be allowed to remain as they are only at the seven former Imperial universities and Keio University, and that those at other universities should be transformed into vocational training schools.

This person even went so far as to assert that students majoring in the humanities and social sciences at schools other than those eight institutions should be taught the Building Lots and Building Transaction Business Law instead of the Constitution, software programming for bookkeeping and accounting in place of Paul Samuelson’s “Economics,” and the skills of orally translating between Japanese and English rather than reading Shakespeare’s works.

These are outrageous proposals and I cannot tolerate anti-intellectuals distorting the government’s policies related to higher education.

During World War II, students of the natural sciences and engineering at high schools and universities were exempt from conscription and only those who were studying the humanities and social sciences were drafted into military service.

In March 1960, the education minister in Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi’s Cabinet said that all departments of the humanities and social sciences at national universities should be abolished so that those schools would concentrate on the natural sciences and engineering. He also said that education in the humanities and social sciences should be placed in the hands of private universities.

A certain well-known entrepreneur predicted, meanwhile, that before long a majority of high posts in politics, the bureaucracy and business would be occupied by those with natural science and engineering backgrounds.

One of the principal features of the “income doubling plan,” which Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda announced in December 1960 as his major platform, was to promote education in the natural sciences and engineering at universities.

All of these events still remain clearly in my memory as they came while I was preparing for my university entrance examinations.

Fortunately, the prediction made by the famous entrepreneur proved to be off the mark. A majority of Japanese political, bureaucratic and business leaders today are still those who studied the humanities and social sciences. This is because those who studied these subjects have superior faculties of thinking, judgment and expression, which are required of political, bureaucratic and business leaders. And the foundation for these faculties is a robust critical spirit.

The countries in which the famous entrepreneur’s prediction was on target were socialist. In the Soviet Union, many of those who climbed to the position of general-secretary of the Communist Party had engineering backgrounds. Mikhail Gorbachev did not. Successive Chinese presidents also had engineering backgrounds.

The foundation of democratic and liberal societies is a critical spirit, which is nurtured by knowledge of the humanities. Without exception, totalitarian states invariably reject knowledge in the humanities, and states that reject such knowledge always become totalitarian.

The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has set an ambitious target of making 10 of the nation’s universities rank among the world’s top 100 within the next decade.

This target appears utterly impossible to achieve because at present only two universities in Japan are among the global top 100 — the University of Tokyo at 23rd and Kyoto University at 59th. Moreover, only three others — the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka University and Tohoku University — are among those ranking between 101st and 200th.

The Abe administration’s target is tantamount to demanding the impossible. Why is it then that Japanese universities rank so low? One big reason is the low levels of education and research in the humanities and social sciences. Schools like the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and Harvard University, all of which are among the world’s top 10, are highly reputed in these fields.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which ranks sixth in the world, is often thought to be an institution devoted exclusively to engineering. But the fact is that it offers a wide variety of curricula in the humanities and social sciences, and the standards of its research in these fields are reputed to be among the highest in the world.

The University of Tokyo is the only Japanese university that is among at the global top 100 in the humanities and social sciences. Although it ranks 87th in social sciences, no Japanese universities, including the University of Tokyo, rank among the top 100 in the humanities.

Stanford University ranks first in both the humanities and social sciences, while MIT places second in social sciences. The London School of Economics and Political Science, which specializes in social sciences, ranks 34th overall, which is below the 23rd spot held by the University of Tokyo but far above Kyoto University’s rank of 59th.

I believe that I am not alone in thinking that if Japan is serious about getting 10 of its universities into the world’s top 100, it will be far more cost-effective and advantageous to promote, rather than abolish or curtail, education and research in the humanities and social sciences.

Takamitsu Sawa is the president of Shiga University.

Fish on a tree

子どもの能力をまったく理解できない

アホウたちが教員

ー アインシュタイン

Schools with idiots

子どもたちをバカ者に仕立てるのが教師たち

Brain and no brain

Smarter people are controlled

by muscle heads.

賢い人は、筋肉たちに迫害されてる。

Inhuman

Inhumanity kills humanity.

人を殺せるのは非人間だけ

Refugee first

Wherever you're now, most of our grand

grandparents arrived in the new land

pretty much like refugees.

どこに住んでいようが、ほとんどの祖先は

難民状態で新地にたどり着いた

Refugees are welcome here

何十万人もの難民が来始めた途端に、

「ドンドン難民を受け入れよう」という巨大デモが

ロンドン、コペンハーゲンなど各地で行なわれ、

難民の子達はサッカースタジアムに招待される。

日本では、年間の難民受け入れがひとりか

4人くらい (世界記録単独更新中)。

日本で生まれ育っても追い返すことも頻繁。

追い返された人は自国で殺されることも。

Number of refugees Japan takes

per year ia about 1 to 4 persons.

They kick out everyone without food,

water or medical supply even though

it means death to children.

Tony's Chocolonely

「ほとんどのチョコレート製造には、

奴隷の子供が使われている」ショックを受けたトニーは、

奴隷制に対し訴訟。自らチョコレート会社を。

彼みたいな正義の人は大メーカーや公務員たちから迫害を受ける。

正義は搾取人種には都合が悪い。

多数決

One rather easy way to make the world
a better place is to stop applying
majority rule because people are mostly
hopelessly ignorant and selfish.
Minority rule should help.

多数決制をやめれば、世界はマシになる。
大多数はまったく見込のない
無知で自分勝手な生き物だから。
どこを見ても多数派は目も当てられない。

子どもを破壊

武器商人と
ビデオゲームで儲ける人は似てる。

どっちも子どもをダメにする。

奇奇怪怪

どこにも犯罪はある。

日本のは、極めて異様。

奇奇怪怪。

そこにいる人間性 (=妖怪性) の象徴。

子供と泥棒

勇気なき子供は、今後80年間、

食べ物(生き物)を食い散らすだけの泥棒。

ちょうど親たちのように。

バカママ

バカママは、ワガママ。

アホおやじは、恥のかたまり。

今、信じてること

信じてることの9割くらいを捨て切らないと

洗脳されたまんまで終わる。

方法は？

ひとり旅以外にない。

マザコン列島

自分でなんにもできない男どもを

いっぱい飼育してる、この島の悲劇は

ママ達がその生産ラインを決して

止めないこと。

つまらない理由

つまらない人間になる理由は

毎日、くだらない大人たちに囲まれてるから

前向きな職員

「前向きな人間は、ここにはいませんよ」

と都庁の職員

忙しい日々

「どうでもいいこと」に忙しく

「肝心なこと」は、永遠の先送りで、既に手遅れ。

それが大部分の人。

これでいい

「もうこれでいい。これで大丈夫」

と思ったら、人間は、おしまい。

下がるのみ。

本人は、「下がっちゃいない。横ばい」と

主張したがるけど、横ばいじゃない。

とどまったら、おしまい。

安物買い

百円ショップのオモチャは使う前に壊れてる。

ファーストフードは有害。

安上がりの教育は、取り返しがつかない。

「安物買いは高くつく」

登校拒否の子はわかってる子。