最初に大学に入って一番驚いたのは、効果的な勉強方法を知っているクラスメートがごく僅かだったということだ。の英語

What surprised me most when I first entered college was how few of my classmates knew how to study efficiently.

Lots of people don't get into university the first time around. Why don't you pull yourself together, spend an extra year study, and try again next year?

"What are you studying at university?" "Philosophy" "Philosophy? How is that going to be useful?" "So that I can learn about the importance of things which have no use."

When I was a university student in Kyoto, I was doing part-time jobs, skipping classes, and having fun with my friends, just like other students.

When I was in elementary school I thought, from the bottom of my heart, that the teachers were great people and I was influenced by the teachers' attitudes and moral lessons, but middle school was just a business like any other.

I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.

I don't get why test scores are more important for the education system than real learning. Just because that kind of system is easier to implement, doesn't mean it's the best choice.

I recently changed the way I take notes, and ever since then I've gained confidence in math. For example, usually when I take tests, I don't know anything, and I get bad grades. But yesterday I took a test, and although I don't know my score yet, I think it went well for once.

But the boys I defeated in elementary school started growing bigger and stronger and I couldn't beat them anymore.

"I just ran into a friend today who had transferred schools a while back." "Cool!" "Yeah. Then, we talked about movies, and they suggested we go watch one sometime soon. Is that OK?" "Sure! But, is this friend a boy or a girl?" "....."

A man with a knife entered the school grounds, killed seven second graders and one first grader, and wounded many others.

Once the dreaded entrance exams are behind them, Japanese youngsters suffer a psychological letdown and slack off in their study habits.

In my secondary school days, I was much impressed by how my hospitalised grandfather would often tell the nurses there, "Thank you, I appreciate your help."

"You should write a novel or something." "Nah, I don't think so. I can't see myself coming up with anything good, anyways."

In America, even secretaries and clerks call professors by their first name, which is unimaginable in Japan.

When I was in middle school, I had a friend in the track club who normally studied 3 hours a day. He didn't speed up the pace before tests. On the contrary, he didn't have any club activities and so had lot of free time, so before the test we would go to his house and play video games every day. If we hadn't done that, I would have gotten better grades too.

He never got married because, as he said, “It's too much trouble humoring [《口語》 buttering up] a woman."

All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.

To make time for skating, I did my homework during recess and training breaks and got changed in a car on my way to school after morning practice.

To make time for skating, I did my homework during recess and training breaks and got changed in a car on my way to school after morning practice.

In middle school, I was talking with my therapist, and seeing as we were having such a great talk, I suddenly thought "There's a chance", and I tried to get a kiss. But she told me to stop. Then, as I headed to my next class, I felt so embarrassed.

If you eat with someone you like, everything is delicious, if you eat with someone you don't like, everything is nasty. If you eat alone, you can't taste anything at all.

One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!

Some people even called for an ambulance because they did not know which hospital to go to, or because they had no other means of transportation.

But looking back on those days, I think the friendly competition was essential for my development.

In the old days we always used to go home at lunchtime, but nowadays most children have lunch at school.

"I guess you just slept through our last class." "Yeah, I wasn't able to keep myself awake any longer. Do you think the teacher noticed?" "They didn't seem to notice, but you completely dozed off, so all the boys were laughing about it." "Yikes. That's probably even worse."

I love trying out new things, so I always buy products as soon as they hit the store shelves. Of course, half the time I end up wishing I hadn't.

Although I broke test tubes and played about with chemicals for fun, I did occasionally manage to obey the teacher's instructions as well; repeating experiments that others had long ago undertaken.

Our child was born just after April 1st , so he entered school one year later than our neighbor's son who was born in February.