吉川英治の「ストレート・トーク」

口にナイフ

　広島市南区の市立中学校で、２０代の男性教諭が合唱の授業中、「もっと口を開けろ」と中１男子８人の口元にカッターナイフを突き付けていた。

　教諭は「口を開ける幅を示すためで、刃は出ていない。脅すつもりはなかった」と釈明しているが、複数の生徒が「刃が出ていた」と証言。市教委は不適切な指導だとして処分を検討。

　教諭は９月２９日、生徒８人の前に順に立ち、カッターナイフを口から約５センチ離れたところに突き付けて指導していた。生徒にけがはなかった。カッターナイフは教材を作成するため持っていたという。

ー 共同通信 Dec 17, 2015

子供の破壊者

子供たちを破壊してるのは、頭も性格も悪く、

世間知らず揃いの悪魔教師じゃない。

奴らを野放しにして、一切闘わず、いい子

ぶってる親たちの卑怯さとヘナチョコさに

完全に絶望してる。

子供への影響

親は、子供にいい影響が及ぶのをじゃまして、

自分らのしょうもない影響でコントロールして

してやったり、と思ってる。

その証拠が学校、宿題、試験とかの押しつけ。

The older you get

No matter how older you get,

no brain is no brain.

Actually, you get worse.

歳をとっても、頭のデキは変わんない。

大体悪くなる。

World or cockroaches

The most important role for

parents is to show kids the

world and not letting local

cockroaches brainwash them.
The reality is most of the

parents are the cockroaches.

世の中で一番大事なのは、

子供に世界を見せて、

地元で腐ってるゴキブリ大人達に

汚染させないこと。

現実は、親自身がそのゴキブリ。

Stay sane.

The only way to stay sane is to travel.
You see what I mean when you

see people insane all around you.
If you don't see anybody insane,

you're insane.

正気でいるには世界旅行以外に道はない。
まわりの狂人達を見ればわかる。
見えないなら 自分自身が狂人。

Women's chat.

Very often, women's chat is so bad.

おばさんのおしゃべりはタチの悪いのがいっぱい。

No trouble

A life that's not causing troubles

is the most troublesome one.

「差し障りのない人生」ほど

「差し障る」ものはない。

ズルく、自分勝手な証拠。

No trouble

A life that's not causing troubles

is the most troublesome one.

「差し障りのない人生」ほど

「差し障る」ものはない。

ズルく、自分勝手な証拠。

ファシスト支持市民

海外に出ない無教養、理解しようとしない閉鎖性、

親の仕事や土地を引継ぐ楽チン思考…

それらが保守派、ファシスト政党を支持する基盤。

世界共通。

Weird people

“Blessed are the weird people–poets, misfits,

writers, mystics…painters & troubadours–for

they teach us to see the world through different eyes

- Jacob Nordby

人は洗脳されてるから、詩人、作家、はぐれ者等の

変わった人たちの目のみが物の見方を教えてくれる。

Power to do harmful

You need power only when you

want to do something harmful.

Otherwise, love is enough to

get everything done.

- Charlie Chaplin

「権力」は悪事に使われる。

すべては「愛」があればできるのに。

Mistreated

The most sweet hearted people

are the most mistreated people.

- Charlie Chaplin

一番優しい人ほど、誤解され、

ひどい扱いを受けてる。

Good for you is bad for ..

What's good for you should be

bad for children.

What's good for your house

must be bad for your neighbor.

What's good for your city is

hitting the neighbor city.

What you think is good for your

country should be horrible to

other countries.

What you do has to be good

across the border.

Without living on the other side,

you'd never know what's good and bad out there.

親にいいことは、子供には害。

家にいいことは、隣には迷惑。

国にいいことは隣国に失礼。

自分の国だけ好きだと迷惑ばっか。

やることは、国境を越えて、みんなのためになることを。

国境を越えずに することのほとんどは社会悪、世界悪。

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