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| minimum maximum credit pass fail discipline motivation attention behave autonomy drop out (quit) enroll curriculum syllabus
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| Are you most like Mariko, Lee Jin, or Zhijun Chu? Explain.
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| What is a student’s job? What is a “good student”?
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| What is a teacher’s job? What is a “good teacher”?
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| What is the purpose of education?
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| Have you received a good education? Explain.
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| What teaching/learning style suits you best?
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| What would you like to change about your education?
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| Is too much or too little emphasis placed on education in today's society?
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| In some countries some people say that a university degree is no longer necessary or valuable. What do you think the future of education looks like?
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| Your opinion of education in Japan.
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| How much control do you have over what or how you learn? Is student control (autonomy) a good or bad thing?
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| Do you want more or less control over what you learn?
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| How would you change things at this school?
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| What are some teaching/classroom situations that you find unacceptable?
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| What is different about education in Japan from that in other countries?
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| What accounts for those differences?
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| Discuss positive and negative learning experiences you have had.
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| Other experiences, stories, research...
Extra Material: http://www.impactseries.com/Issues_new/issues_link.html Video (opinions): http://www.impactseries.com/Issues_new/issues_personal_opi.html
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