My policy on education
“How can children become smarter” I’ve been thinking about it for a long
time. “If they can solve problems, can they become smarter?”
No. If they could become smarter by solving problems, it would mean that
we just have to give them easy problems. But solving easy problems doesn't
make you smarter. It’s like doing muscle training with a sponge.
“If children can understand the explanations, can they become smarter?”
No. If they could become smarter, there wouldn't be easier job. If you keep
doing this job for two years, you can become good at explaining how to
solve problems in a way thats easy to understand. If you do it, they will just
think that they understood the problems and when they try to solve them by
themselves later, most of them can’t solve the problems. Even if they
memorize the way of solving the problems and become able to solve them,
you can’t say it’s real ability. It’s important for them to solve problems even
id it takes time.
“How can they become smarter?”
In 2010, I got the answer.
“Keep thinking makes you smarter.”
It doesn't matter whether or not they can solve problems.
It doesn't matter whether or not they understand your explanation.
In order to make children think, we need problems that they don’ t get bored
of. There are four kinds of mathematics problems. The first problems are
easy and boring problems. The second ones are easy and interesting ones
and there are hard and boring ones. And final ones are hard and interesting
ones. I only make interesting ones and only give children interesting ones. If
the problems are interesting, they can keep thinking.
“How can children get ahead of other children?”
I thought children could get ahead of other children if they studied at home.
Because they took the same classes and I gave them the same textbooks, I
assumed that they couldn't get ahead of others in class. Back then, I
explained it out loud.
When I had some time to think, I realized that in class, there were
differences between children who could got ahead of others and children
who couldn't do it. Some children try so hard to solve problems, and the
others don’t do anything in class. Children that can’t focus on classes can’t
concentrate at home.
However, what makes children get ahead of other children is not studying at
home. “How can children make differences?”
In 2009, I got the answer.
“Children can get ahead of others while they're sleeping.”
In human’s brain, there are ares where you think consciously and
unconsciously. The area of unconscious is much bigger than the conscious
area. The are of conscious is as big as the snow ball that’s on top of the
iceberg tip. When you're awake, you don’t have access to the unconscious
are. So you have to control yourself with the snow boll size of the conscious
are. No matter how hard you try to achieve big things while you're awake,
you can’t achieve big things. In 2009, I started to make my own books called
“Kashikokunaru sansu”(Mathematics that makes you smart). which I made
96 of in total. I was able to make the first problem easily. However, I had
some trouble making the second problem. Although I stayed in my cram
school for four days, I couldn't write a word of the problem. So I gave up on
doing it and came back home and went to bed. The next day, I went to my
cram school and started to make the second problem again. I was surprised
because I could make it. And then I got confidence that people should sleep
even if they think they need to think when they're supposed to sleep. This
does not apply to everything. However what I can say is it applies to
studying mathematics. The things you need to know when you study
mathematics are only addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integers,
fractions, and decimals. What you have to do is think how you can use those
things to solve problems. It’s meaningless to learn this from other people.
Children who are good at mathematics like mathematics. There is no
exception. They think unconsciously when they're asleep and fight with
math problems. If you want them to be good at mathematics, you should
give them interesting problems and leave them alone.