Outing Class

"At the next class we will visit the newspaper company." The suggestions of outing during the classes are one of my favorite phrases. At MFWI I often went somewhere during classes. I really like outing classes becasue I can learn more than just talking classes.

In Japan, the outing hardly happens and the teachers hardly ask questions to their students at the universities. Most teachers just teach and talk about their experience. Some of them use a screen. The classes that use some material; screen or music and so on are good ones. I may have too much expectancy to the teachers, but I think they are not so interesting. I think American teachers want their students to learn more, so they plan to go somewhere. There are many facilities that they may go. While students visiting, they listen carefully during someone's talk. If there are students who talk with their friends, they can warn them. But Japanese students, especially young students, talk while the hosts are talking and the friends don't warn them. I think this attitude is a cause of not leaving classes. I don't like this attitude but I can't warn them bacause I also had done that.

There is one more reason that the classes hardly visit somewhere in Japan. It is the size of the class. In Japan there are at least 40 students in one class. It is a big group to move and the teachers can't know each student deeply. But in America, the class size is small so students can move easily and the teachers can know each students deeply.

Now I learned American style which listen carefully while someone is talking and warn them so I can follow them. I have known American classes so I think I will be bored with Japanese classes after I go back to Japan.