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Society’s Sin: “Just Get Into College” isn’t the Answer to Youth Future | Yoshitaka Menjo | TEDxAnjo


Translation: YORIKO NODA proofreading: Yuri Ueda

I was in high school where it is commonplace to go to college

That time I am this

You can be funny, is not it?

(Lol)

At that time the teacher said about the course

“When choosing a university, do not choose it easily by deviation value”

“Choose a university by thinking about the job you want to work in the future”

That’s why I thought hard.

And the answer that came out

“I do not know” was

I do not have good things to do or I do not like it

What kind of work is interesting or not?

I have no idea.

More than anything I was not confident that I could help society

Sensation that there is glass between myself and society

I can see but I do not understand it

Even if you ask a friend around you that your school is decided

Whether it is likely to be able to make money in the future or is stable

Only ambiguous reason

There was also an answer that we should think after going to university

There is no opportunity to realize the future despite saying “Think the future”

I can only study for not knowing what to go to college for

I thought at the time that it contradicted

So I chose the Department of Undergraduate Department of Information Technology which can be killed without any help

I went to college for the time being “

“Temporary University Advancement”

I think that because university entrance is normal or I do not want to work yet

It is a negative passive choice like there are no other choices

Japanese college admission rate is

It is 57% now that it was 10% 60 years ago

On the other hand, the employment rate of high school graduates was 52% now, which is 18%

Just the opposite

Now that I entered college entrance normally

What did such a society have given us?

Is it a rich life to be obtained as a college graduate?

Or is it expertise or ability?

I have been engaged in education so far

In relation to children’s poverty problems and scholarship issues

I came up to a certain hypothesis

That’s “I will go to college for the time being”

It is no longer a social crime

Do you know how much money is spent on the university’s four years now?

It will cost so much only for 4 years tuition

This is one ten years ago

It is the first time that the price has risen far above the rise in prices

If entrance fee and school fee textbook fee is also included

5 million to 7 million yen

A child can buy a luxury car

It is more if you go to a cram school to go on to a good university

People’s income has become polarized, and half of the citizens now

I am living with an annual income of 4.27 million yen or less

Tuition fee accounts for 40%

At least let me go to college

Using the feelings of such parents as a stepping stone

College admission deprives richness from home

It is the first sin

And this consciousness that “this is cost money for education”

I will brake the number of children

The second sin is declining birthrate

About 80% of couple now can not increase children

I am raising money too much

Declining birthrate pension problems and shortage of care workforce etc.

It is becoming a big problem for Japan’s future

It’s more than that

“I will go to college for the time being” will cut off the power of young people

It is the third sin

Many young people do “to go to college for the time being”

I have no goal after entering university

It is a day to and from the university and the house

Growth actual feeling Left without any response

Only time will pass as it is swept away

And if you notice it, you will be in the third grade and your inauguration hell will start

I can not get a job just by graduating from college.

Even though I think I got a job

Thirty percent of university graduates quit within three years and then gradually change positions

Since the turnover rate of high school is now 40%, there is not much difference

In addition to that, about half of college students borrow a scholarship

At the time of graduation, an average of 3 million yen for people with 6 million yen

There are people that cost 10 million yen

Repayment hell that can not be returned if you notice it

Approximately 330,000 people

10% of people are delinquent

The scholarship is cutting the power of young people

So there is a movement to make a scholarship that does not need repayment

We do not have prospects for financial resources to correspond to so many university students

“Moratorium college life with no purpose and is also important in life”

There is also a voice saying

Moratorium with borrowing a large scholarship is a dangerous substitute

Delaying young people to enter the society by going to university

It also results in wasting the power to grow

The university entrance that was supposed to bring richness and ability

It deprives richness from people, accelerates declining birthrate and reduces the power of young people

Things that lead to three social crimes

We are at the time to stop and look

I do not want to deny the university entrance itself

There are many things that only college can do

Doctors and teachers Advanced researchers in science etc.

There are also jobs requiring college admission

What I want to make a problem

Reasons such as a threat like having trouble in the future if you do not leave the university

I would like to make it a problem to “go to college tentatively”

So what should I do?

It is to make a society that is not locked by university entrance

It is indispensable for that to choose your way of life

“Independence”

That is

It is 18 years old to be able to select course carefully regardless of which way to choose

It is quite common to see it in the world

In Japan, this self-reliance is delayed due to going on to university as a top priority

I have myself and a society

How will human beings participate in this society

People conflict between themselves and society in the process of independence

What is important in this conflict

Thinking only in the head and not being captured by someone’s values

I see with my own eyes and listen with my ears and feel it with my skin

It’s a direct experience

By thinking deeply while coming back and forth between society and myself

Concepts to self – identity will be created

I call this “explorative experience”

High school student stage is a very important time in this self-sustaining process

Do you go on to work or get a job?

Are you going to college or going to college?

To what university will you learn?

Will it remain locally or go out?

It is this high school stage that other important options are gathered

Considering these choices Leave the material shortage

For the time being I’m deciding it without any help

In Japan now 70% high school students

I have a sense of self-denial such as “I am not good”

This is a high proportion compared with other countries

It is natural that the choice for the future will be reluctant with this

So they do not encourage speech, they need “exploratory experiences”

A real experience connected with society is realized and moved and

I am confident that I can do something in this society

It leads to a subjective life choice, or “independence”

To make this independence process between the age of 22 and not 22

Changing the mechanism is a way to solve it

There are many exploratory experiences

Internship to actually work for a few days at companies, business offices, etc.

Study tour to go to places of interest and interested people and listen to stories

Take action on something in the group

We also have project learning etc.

School and society cooperate to prepare opportunities

Summer vacation Winter break Spring vacation not only once

Deepened by learning iteratively and repeatedly three times twice

It is to nurture high school students big

College students are not too late now

I do not postpone my future with “I do not know”

Let’s take a step forward to find something because we do not know

This place is exactly right.

About explorative experiences and self-reliance We will think about by example of Mr. M high school student

M was in high school of course to go on to higher education

I was invited by my friend in a year to have an event of 10,000 people

I participated in a project planned and executed by high school students

And she is with other high school students

I overcome many difficulties and make the event a success together

I gained confidence that I can do something

The winter of the second grade will finally come and the course choice will come closer

Due to the economic circumstances of the family, parents were unable to enter the university and their parents said

Even if you go to university, you borrow a large amount of scholarship

Speaking of what I can do alone makes me very uneasy

Nonetheless, there is not much information about employment but a negative image

You will not be able to pick up your admission to entering graduate school or getting a job if you are in third grade.

He told us such anxiety

Would you like to work once? And I suggested an internship

And because she was interested in work that you can use English

I did an internship at a tourist information office

I tried working for two days

Impression after internship is this

I was impatient with all sorts of things I did not understand but it was unexpectedly passed

Because I was not doing it I could do it just because I was worried

He told me with a smile.

I tried high school entrance examination of national university, but I failed it

Although it was a shock, I decided my intention

I know what I am good at.

I am confident that I can do something

I decided to get a job if I had a company that could make use of myself

I also looked for such a company together

And found company and joined the company

This is my first time to recruit high school graduates

I was excited about my job but last month was my official announcement

She was really pleased

The president of the company said this impression about her

I’m really firm with having myself proper

It seems to be the best this year

I can do it in society enough

Another important thing to get rid of “go to college for the time being”

As the president, a company that has hired a university graduate so far

Reviewing the value of high school graduates

And it is to make a mechanism to adopt high school graduates and raise firmly

Japan now has a sharp decline in the production population of working generations

There is a talent shortage everywhere

I hear a lot of voices of corporations mourn that “people can not pick up even if they want to take it”

So high school students like diamond rock

Please be aware that there are many

If there is time until 18 years old

People who can fully apply to society can be nurtured

As an evidence what ability to adopt

The results of the questionnaire are as follows

Where is the ability to be raised unless it is a university?

As high school age becomes more fulfilling

These abilities can be nurtured

M is not a special case

An ordinary high school student repeatedly experienced a deep experience

I grew up naturally with ambitious young people

Of course, there will be inexperience unique to high school students

But that is amusing and flexible

One company actually adopts college graduates and high school graduates

We are educating employees on almost the same training menu

High school graduates are straightforward, absorbent and grow fast

He told me that some people will be leaders at the age of 21 at the age of three years

As early as possible to society I was polished at the field of serious game

Growing fast

Please make use of its growth potential

So far we have embraced

For the time being, I thought that if I go to university

It is a relic of the past

One is to connect high school and society and enrich the exploratory experience of high school students

And the other is that after high school students graduate directly enter the company and society

It is to expand self-sustaining way

I am going to society soon and work hard at work

High school graduates of a new era

In these two things you will find universities, job hunting and other ways

It becomes an environment that can be chosen autonomously

That way, university students gather together for the time being

University education can regain its original function

It would be good to support such university entrance with a benefit type scholarship

When I found something I want to learn after working in society

There will be a way of being a social university that you can always learn

Meaningful attractive president and company, not choice but to choose jobs

It will be a choice to challenge society early with youth and flexibility as weapons

Either way is a positive and subjective choice

For my parents at the age of 18 after my high school graduation My child as one adult

It becomes a society in which you can select your own path

Is not it a pleasant thing?

Towards a society in which everyone can become a carrier in this society

It is time we take a new step

Thank you very much

(applause)

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