The Traditional Japanese values :
These "beautiful virtues", applied to engineering, have enabled Japan to produce world-beating examples of technology. Such achievements are truly something to be proud of.
1) Let's take a look at some of these examples:
So -- how were all these things achieved?
The problem is that the same system is used by the Education Ministry for teaching English as is used for classical engineering projects.
But language is not a classical system--it is a:
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4) History can teach us some useful lessons. 60 years ago, using classical systems and the beautiful virtues, Japan built some of the most awesome battleships the world had ever seen. These were:
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5) The results of not listening to the lessons of history:
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6) What can we do about it? Study hard by all means, but USE your English for communication with other human beings. Don't build battleships from book-learning. It is a waste of time and money...
Especially--don't think of non-Japanese as extra-terrestrials (ETs). We are all human beings first and Japanese / American /British etc. second. Language is nothing but a mouthful of air--but it can move mountains if you use it right!
Try reading this book to see the way Western minds work....
