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The Japanese/American Tech Deficit
Why do the Japanese get all the coolest gadgets, while the U.S. is left with the second-tier, less-innovative ones? The San Francisco Chronicle delves into this age-old mystery and provides a few explanations for those of us who don't live near Akihabara.
"This is in the way that they don't really like learning"
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Teaching here is almost all memorization and regurgitation. Teachers don't care, though -- no reason to. Their jobs are safe. The worse they do the more money their school gets. A great system, American public education...