CATDOLL: Japanese cartoonist Tatsuya Egawa: Judging work ability by academic qualifications is hindering social development

Japanese cartoonist Tatsuya Egawa recently quoted a news article from Toyo Keizai ON LINE on Facebook, saying that Japanese schools are now instilling in students the idea that high education equals career and social elites, which is detrimental to social development. So what is going on?

This online news article criticizes the current local policies in Japan. Outstanding students who graduate from universities are squeezed into the bureaucracy, local administrative civil servants, and the power layers of large enterprises, which increases the financial dependence of local governments on the country. While the elites are aggravating the decline of local areas, managers who graduated from middle and high schools are contributing to the local economy. Teacher Jiangchuan believes that these elites are out of touch with the local area and cannot work at all. The highly educated elites in Tokyo are trying to hinder work, and their minds are full of thoughts on how to benefit from the work of others. What highly educated people can do, some bad boys can also do, and schools must change the existing educational concepts.

Japanese netizens commented on this: "You are right. The current king of the film industry, President Okada of Toei, is an elite who graduated from the Department of Economics of the University of Tokyo, the top student in Hiroshima, but there are also many rubbish in Hiroshima." "People who lack understanding and application ability are annoying." "It is easy to find knowledge on the Internet now, and what is used on the spot is wisdom." "I think people who have experienced frustration and have experienced conviction are amazing, and the same goes for those with high education." "I have such elite cases around me. Ability must be consistent with the direction of work to exert high ability, and the direction cannot be biased." "Japan's elite education should be fundamentally readjusted. People who only know how to take exams will only lead the country's core to decline."