DA@Intellectual decline

a) 1, Elementary School students study all subjects in Japanese.

  2, through this curriculum, they can acquire Japanese language.

b) 1, A/P elementary school students have to learn English from 70 to 105 periods per a year.

  2, Elementary school students cannot develop their Japanese language skills enough, b/o English learning.

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Q) Moreover, this increase of English classes, it means only about 20 hours per week for other subject, other subject will inevitably be neglected. Most Japanese people will not acquire Chinese letters or multiplication tables. Because mother tongue is the basis of all kind of intellectual action, without establishment of this ability, children cannot get basis of thinking, and become empty person. Besides, mathematics being a word in all kinds of science, making technological country becomes doubtful when it makes light of mathematics, and it becomes difficult that it even eats in our country without not only economic development but also resources.  

  3, Poor Japanese ability leads students into serious intellectual decline.

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  Q) It is very important to learn Japanese which is one of the most difficult languages. Teaching English to schoolchild as the second official language, Japanese standard for intelligence will decline. (omit) Japan produces many great@mathematicians b/c they are master of Japanese. (UQ@

c) The intellectual decline of young generation will ruin Japan.

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 Q) Intellectual decline, especially in reason number is the serious problem connected with the Japanese future directly. One of the author of g•ͺ”‚ͺo—ˆ‚Θ‚’‘εŠwΆh, the professor in Kyoto university, the president of a Japanese economics meeting, tells that Japan which lacks resources cannot survive without creating value added. Education doesnft kill people, but ruin the Nation. The sense of crisis of the intellectual decline is spreading out in the industrial world as well, and the folk think tank, global industry cultural laboratory of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry also blew an alarm whistle in last October that gIf the rapid intellectual decline will not recover, Japanese international competitive power will lost immediately. (UQ

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UQ: Now Elementary school students study all or most subjects in japanese. They learn arithmetic, Japanese, science, social studies and so on. They can concentrate on learning Japanese and other subjects which make their basic intellect.

LINK: A/P elementary school students have to learn English, even in the condition that their Japanese skill is not perfect. They have to learn English before their ability in Chinese letters or mathematics or Japanese or other subjects are not enough. Japanese basic study will disturbed by English study. Extend b) 2 card. And there is new evidence.

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Q)@It sounds good when it is said that English is introduced from the elementary school to expand English education as a subject and to raise English conversation ability, but this means the compression of other subjects, and securely encourages a national intellectual decline. It is no exaggeration to say that this policy makes whole nation fool. (UQ

 Mother tongue is the basis of all kinds of intellectual action, therefore their total intellectual will ruin by this plan.

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‚pjBut, If their ability in mother tongue, especially in reading and writing, is established enough, with this mother tonguefs help, they can develop second language ability. It is said that Ability in mother tongue and that of second language are not develop independently but they develop with depending mutuality. For example, the learner who already acquire the concept of gdemocracyh can learn it only by labeling g–―ŽεŽε‹`h to the concept which already they have, while it is too hard for young people who donft have the concept of democracy to learn this concept in second language. (UQ @@

Moreover, extend 3rd card. Poor Japanese ability leads students into serious intellectual decline. 

IMP: This intellectual decline will surely ruin Japan and Japan come to serious situation in future. Extend c) card. Without international competitive power, Japanese depression become serious and the nation cannot feed all the people, b/o lack of resources and food. In worst case many people will die.   Extend b)2 card. it said that git becomes difficult that it even eats in our country without not only economic development but also resourcesh.