I've thought of the yutori kyouiku a bit before, when my teacher talked about it in the teaching course class, and last week in the class he showed us a graph of the transition of the length of students' study. It showed that the time of study schools have given has decreased. Then, the adoption of the system MAY be natural, but yutori is not so natural, I thought.
Of course children, including me or not, need power to survive and time to enjoy their life, but deceasing the opportunity of study hardly seems to give them the powers and the time. When we get more free time, we also get the need to think in ourselves. Thinking something needs some bases, and they rather consist of kinds of knowledge. Though the cramming system of education doesn't seem so good, the opportunity of getting knowledge shouldn't be lost.
In the system of yutori kyouiku, it seems ideal that the time when we can find something fascinating and we want to know would be longer, and then we can obtain the power to survive without decreasing knowledge we can gain. ... just an ideal, Ha-ha.
Well, even I said so, I would be happy with no class or no homework now! :9
I'm tired of typing so much X( I really think highly of your long article, Yousuke!
