Yamagiwa:Thank you very much.The biggest difference between American universities and Japanese universities is that they are good at raising individual students because they start from individualism.In Japan, how to distribute educational resources equally on a class-by-class basis is in mind, and individuals are secondary.Recently, Harvard University's website even posted information that would be avoided at Japanese universities, which could lead to a loss of image.At American universities, it is thorough that students are the ones to choose, and it is basic to publish all information properly, rather than boasting good points or shyly hiding inferior points. It's a typical way of thinking.I think Japan is too kind to develop individual abilities.

Naoyoshi Takada (Saitama Prefectural Urawa Daiichi Girls' High School):Until this spring, I was on the board of education and was involved in reforming high school entrance exams.By the way, in the high school entrance examination in Saitama prefecture next spring, considering the difference in academic ability of junior high school students, out of the five subjects, there will be two types of problems regarding English and numbers.This is to see the students' ability to think and express even more firmly by aligning with this university entrance examination reform.Our school is one of the top girls' schools in the prefecture and is working hard on education for all, but it is a little unsatisfactory that the students are small and cohesive, probably because it is a girls' school.I want you to break the shell and fly bigger.

To that end, we are making various efforts. SSH is the third term and this year is the final year, but from this year it has been designated as SGH. "The Law for Promotion of Women's Advancement will be enforced from this April, and more and more women are expected to play an active role. Let's realize a society where anyone can play an active role if they have the motivation and ability regardless of gender, such as women and men. "!"

Perhaps because it is a girls' school, there is a tendency to take into consideration the intentions of parents, especially mothers, when counseling students' career paths.All students want to be good children who continue to live up to their mother's expectations, and parents are reluctant to let go of their children.We are also encouraging parents to get rid of their children well.One student each went on to Kyoto University.The active student was the top student last year and chose Kyoto University instead of the University of Tokyo.

Kyoto University has core fans who yearn for the academic style of freedom and the charm of the city of Kyoto itself.Last year, one Ronin raised his hand and passed the recommendation of the University of Tokyo. As an SSH student, he won the Excellence Award at the Japan Student Science Award and went to ISEF as a representative of Japan, but he changed his mind and proceeded to the University of Tokyo.

Yamagiwa:In the STAP cell incident, the Rike Jobum has been overshadowed, but there is still a need for girls with a science-based mindset to play an active role.However, the proportion of girls does not increase at Kyoto University.This is especially true in the engineering field.Mathematicians are very active in society in the United States.The salary is also high.In Japan, the image of a researcher is strong, and it often seems that they are separated from the real world, and even companies are the most shortage of human resources.However, mathematical ability can be applied not only to economics but also to various fields such as design, statistics, and modeling.As a university, I am afraid that I will be determined not to be suitable for science at the junior high school and high school stages.

Takada:At our school, 55 to 60% are science.

 
Akira Yoshino (Ohyu Gakuen Girls' High School):It is very important that women do not feel bad about science.I think the problem is that education today is formal gender equality, ignoring differences in developmental stages and letting them do it uniformly.For example, ratios and proportions appear in elementary school mathematics, but during this period, girls' ability to abstract language develops and their communication skills develop further.Boys have a better ability to abstract mathematically, and ratios and proportions are more likely to come to their minds, and at school they will continue to move forward.For this reason, girls whose mathematical abstraction ability grows later often end up with "I'm not good at math" and "I was the same".

Unless I change this area, I think it will be difficult for women to improve their science abilities.At our school, all science in middle XNUMX is biology.If you like science by targeting concrete things that you can see and touch, you can easily enter physics and chemistry with a high degree of abstraction in middle XNUMX and middle XNUMX.Although our school is also a girls' school, there are a few more science students, probably because we have a curriculum tailored to the developmental stage.