Japanese Students Clean Classrooms To Learn Life Skills
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2015
- In some parts of Japan, students spend about 20 minutes a day cleaning up their classrooms. AJ+ dropped by a second-grade class at Azabu Elementary School in Tokyo to find out why. From video journalists Irene Herrera and Naotomo Umewaka.
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wish my "adult" roommates would clean up after themselves too
+Luke Quevedo (Rūku) I pity you.
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Gell ann papa igo here usta na u
We should *really* do this in the US... but parents would throw a fit; *pissed* that their children were being forced into "slave labor" and that their child was "too good for this janitor work" and if their grades were slipping of course the first thing they'd blame is this silly "cleaning up" program that is clearly taking away from study time... The power that parents have over the school has gotten out of control -_-
What's amazing is that Japan has a much higher global rank in education than we do and they still have time to physically clean up after themselves.
+Flash Japan is much better when it comes to education, but in all fairness some countries (not Japan) can choose who goes to school and who doesn't so some statistics are inflated.
I did this stuff in America.
The way I see it: If someone makes a mess, they clean it up. I wouldn't want to clean up after someone else, and I know how to clean up my own mess.
***** I agree with you, but holy crap, what is your problem with correct punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and clean language?
So this the answer why Japan soooo Clean!
Japan was able to accept the industrial revolution earliest in Asia. Because Japan boasted a high literacy rate for several hundred years. It was ahead of the European countries. Children were taught to read, write, and calculate in Japan. 150 years ago, Japanese were able to translate, publish and read Western civilization. Another tradition in Japan is "cleanliness". Cleaning up in front of the house every morning was to not cause discomfort to others. Japanese education has a tradition of "We beautifully cleanse our classroom to make our hearts beautiful".
They also benefited from being an island. Didn't get wiped out by horse archers haha
I love this country so much
Manners in socializing, working together in cleanliness and serving others need to be taught from childhood
We need this in Mexico and USA all over the world. Start teaching good cleaning habits and discipline. It's never to early to start.
@@Meme-xq1wn it is but better for a cleaner environment especially in these days right now
@@Meme-xq1wn and Littering is fun?
@@Meme-xq1wn and your a little kid right?
Asian countries already do this
I can say it is accurate japan streets are always clean and safe
I am Japanese, cleaning with classmates at school was a fun time 🤗
thats awesome i love Japanese culture
During my Primary & High School Life
we used to clean our own class room too.
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I worked in Japan for more than 5 yrs, I must say that, JAPANESE ARE VERY CONSIDERATE TO OTHER PEOPLE.
an excellent way to get students to understand how their actions affect the community. we should adopt this policy in our schools
Superior civilization.
cizia69 good
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Very nice
Good. Keeps their culture intact.
since they're about the only country THIS disciplined, it's natural that they wouldn't think highly of other nationalities who aren't even half as disciplined :P
Everyone should do this! Good job Japan.
+Corrado VRz (CorradoVR6z) Clap.
+Corrado VRz (CorradoVR6z) I know a lot of Asian countries do it.. I was from Taiwan, we did it
+Corrado VRz (CorradoVR6z) you know in east asia they dont pay for janitor to clean the classroom right ? it's class duty to clean their classroom.students have to take turn to clean their classroom everyday.
+Lloyd Wang we do it too,i'm from indonesia
+Duc Tran I'm not sure that's 100% accurate. There are groundskeeping and maintenance staff available who do some cleaning. But simple maintenance like cleaning shelves, basic sweeping, and wiping the chalkboard are things kids can do.
Further evidence that Japan is simply a superior society.
Honestly i dont think that a society of sheeps is better
Superior superior society that produces one of the highest suicide rate. Ironic.
Gamer Z Actually the suicide rate of Japan is 35th, South Korea is 4th, which is way more higher when it comes to suicide in South Korea.
としあき sorry, I meant the highest among developed countries. And I never talked about South Korea but ok...? I don’t really care about how South Korea is.
@@GamerZ-gf9oe South Korea is a developed country dumbass
Cleaning your environment is no difference from cleaning and clearing your mind.
I love this. From a YOUNG age they understand just because something is a public space, it is still their responsibility to look after it. Teaches real PRIDE in their community
My country Thailand, we clean the classroom too, everyday. We take turns cleaning the floor, the backboard and students' table. And we don't wear shoes in the classroom, the classrooms are where students need to respect therefore we wax our floor also. The shiniest and cleanliest class will be rewarded. *So I don't get it why American students do not need to clean the classroom.*
Through osouji after school, these kids are learning important life skills and teamwork/working with others, all while having fun
Approaching work with enthusiasm, coming together to serve the common good, being mindful of the basics, and taking pride in how well they're covered are all refreshing qualities.
EXACTLY. That's the goal of this tradition.
Very good I love you children's
That's why I like japan.....
That's why entire country was clean. All schools should teach this skills.
This is great! I wish all schools did this. Discipline makes dreams come true.
Imagine what would happen again if American schools tried this
child labor
Too much common sense.
Everyone would skip school
Brits would do the same but i would be the 1 kid who turns up (in my year/grade)
chaos
Kids who probably didn’t wanna do it probably would call it child labor or they would be in a bad mood for the rest of the day
Ok I’m from Tokyo and I can confirm that it’s true in I think every school in Japan. We’re so used to it and I actually thought that it’s the same around the world until I was abroad
Same in south koerea to . My dad said in mexico theyuse to do this before
description is not right.
not "In some parts of Japan," but in any parts of Japan.
I don't know an exception.
There are international schools in Japan that don't do this practice because a lot of the families are from Western countries and they don't have students clean or serve. So not every school in Japan does this.
seems like a society you'd be extremely grateful to be born into
aw this is adorable. Such sweethearts
Something to learn from Japan.. It is a lesson for life
We can never learn. It's in the DNA.
@@ktkska8886 is this some bs?.
why cant schools in america be like this
+Everest Young How was it? Do children happeb to complain sometimes? I'm curious.
Because america is shit.
they are to spoilt to clean their own mess
Tentai Kitsune_FC
I'm an American Student who's starting HS. I always try my best to keep my spaces clean.
Go to Asia :V
I'm my school it's like that too
ah what a concept ! teaching them to be clean and responsible. in The US the parents would be suing the school.
tocororo suing? Why?
Stkrdknmibalz they would probably call t child abusive.
The problem is that cleaning up is treated as a punishment rather than something to embrace.
These things make a Japan trustable & great i think...
We did this when I went to school in Russia. Unsurprisingly, many schools and countries do this.
I might be wrong but I think many Asian countries do this, students cleaning their classrooms. My country too.
Jo Montanee because most asian school are build on the Japanese model...
Japan 1 - Rest of the world 0
ProNoX here in indonesia we have the same culture in school... we dont have janitor, and we also have to clean our classroom everyday, we call it 'piket'. So not the rest of the world..
same in phillipines we clean even the school backyard !! and the teachers even let us do the burning of the dried leaves !! it's just a shocker that other countries don't do this kind of thing !! i even enjoy cleaning with my friends even with the kids i hate! it's like playtime for me!
Korea been doing this ever since modern school started.
it should be
japan 1
world -10😂😭
Sure lots of other Asian countries do this but the difference is, Japanese people are mostly atheists, while most other Asian countries are still brainwashed. Hence, Japan leads the modern world, rest of Asians stays backward with oh so many gods and so many stupid religion traditions.
After reading the comments from this video, I learned various things from other countries especially United States. Since I live in Asia, it is common to clean up your class after school and have everyone participate. We do have janitors but they mostly do the heavy work during cleaning time. I’m a bit surprised that American students don’t clean up their classes after school but I think it was because they don’t stay in one same class? (Please correct me if I’m wrong though. I’m unsure about this fact).
In my country we also have some days dedicated to cleaning out the entire school. We clean the field, the garden, the cafeteria, etc. Especially when we have to prepare for cultural festivals or school anniversary. I wonder if there are similar cleaning events in American schools as well. I’m very curious.
Same when I was studying in the Philippines, if you were tasked to clean on a particular day, you stay after school and your groups cleans the whole classroom in preparation for the next day. You can clearly see those children who are spoilt by their parents not knowing the basics of cleaning.
As an American I can vouch that no it isn't. It's interesting I'm also a janitor and people definitely look down on us. There's this mentality from some that it's a janitor's responsibility to clean so therefore they can just leave a huge mess. I have enough to do without also having to pick up plates and cups and crumbs off the table. But that's just the mentality. Working class citizens are second class citizens
Truly this is admirable . This how the Japanese schools and at home taught their children. It's not just about doing their part in housework but more importantly about growing up to be civic minded and not self-centred. This kind of education is even more important than getting good grades as it holds the country together when in crisis. During the last tsunami disaster which badly damaged the Fukushima nuclear plants, the Japanese people all obediently quietly queued up for food handout. You cannot see anyone shouting, fighting or even cry baby complaining. In contrast, during the Katrina hurricane disaster in US , there was widespread looting of supermarket and damaging of shops and fighting.
That's why I never believed in this westernized idea "time have change". It's all about upbringing and instilling displines when young. Once adult, the one giving the displine will be very harsh and fatal....a stranger if meet the wrong person at work or outside. It can be a small misunderstanding turned into fatality. Newspapers also have reported these kind.
Here in Philippines we do this also in our schools, but sadly people here tends to forget when they grow up.
japan and its people is the best role model for the world.. ( IGDAF TO THEIR PAST..)
日本で学びたい
In PH, the cleaning of rooms are also done by the students. I honestly thought this was normal in schools around the world, Never thought this would be strange or new for some people :)
But it's more of a task in us, not really culture. We don't apply what we learn in school in our daily life. That's why our streets are dirty as hell.
it's a year late but I think students cleaning the classroom here is only for public schools, and it's seen as a chore
really? that wasn't the case back in my school days. Maybe a change of the times?
@@numbers_0036
I wish I had attended a Japanese school as a kid.
as a Japanese food(health), cleaness and respectful are the most important things.
This is why japan is so clean and the people are discipline
Seeing the comments here. I thought this was a normal thing lol. A lot of Asian countries do this. It's part of the school curriculum. We used to clean our own desk, room. from picking up trash, throwing it to the garbage center of the school while segregating it from Recyclables, Bio and Non Bio. to trimming the grass fields. We do this from preschool to High school.
This is a good thing to teach to children in any country.
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
That explains why Japan is so clean
Anyways a lot of people in the comment section are complaining about why they don't have this in their own country, but they probably are too lazy to clean their rooms. Myself included.
Lol I remember my school did this in the Philippines. When I was grade 4 , the classroom had polished cement floors so the group for the day (the ones assigned to stay and clean for 15 minutes) would get dried coconut husks and use them to try and glide against the floor. Sometimes we would tape our sheos to the coconut so that when we were gliding, we wouldn't fall off the coconut lmao
They should do this everywhere..yessss
I am Japanese. An American female scholar came to Japan in the 1980s and She said, "This is child abuse."
My friends call if child abuse 😬 I’ve never seen anyone in my class who actually dislikes it(other than bathroom cleaning, but they volunteer for it)
lol
I would never take ethics lessons from people who walk around carrying guns. Americans are capricious toddlers
Japanese are hard worker no doubt
allowing children to be filthy & NOT teaching them self-cleanliness is child abuse
I wish this education system is being followed worldwide.
Indeed!
Will labelled as 'child abused/labor'😅
If we did this kind of education then most celebrities and politicians will be poorer than us.
Here in the US this would be called child labor.
Sometimes US mentality can be EW...unbearable. I don't get them from times to times.
negative people like you cause the fall of the nation
Child abused😅
I like this education system, hope whole world adapts to it for betterment of children and young generations
Wonderful practiceMust be adopted everywhere as childhood is the time when you lay the foundation for adulthood
Cleaning is not just a cleaning.Many people can do it .. This activity is highly recommended for many schools all over the world.When having this activity in the class room indirectly we can nurture the attitude of cooperating, respectful and even obedience to the instructions ... we must train kids since they are at the young age
I seem to be generally tidy in the homes of Western countries.
For Japanese people, cleaning at school is not a compulsory labor but a part of education. They learn tidying up and cleaning at school.
this is great and more countries should do that
We used to have this in my school too where we were supposed to clean the class in team in rotation manner. We were actually having fun with until a mother of student complained about it being child labor or something lol seriously some people spoil their kids too much and this is way they lack basic knowledge required to survive on their own
Actually where I live there used to be a school which made children clean by themselves.like its ur choice.but still some people complained about this to parents and parents then complained to principal.
This is great stuff ! 🤙🏼
Not only japan.. But mostly Asia... Cuz we have sweepers schedule.. Every day.. Morning-night
I grew up in Taiwan, we have cleaning time everyday and students clean up schools just like Japanese.
Amazinggg excellent this should definitely be taught in school
EXTRAORDINÁRIO EU ADMIRO A DISCIPLINA É TUDO NA BOA EDUCAÇÃO DAS CRIANÇAS E SUA ALEGRIA
I'm not from Japan, but in my country kids also clean their classrooms. And teachers prepare schedule for each groups to clean everyday.
For me I might be wrong, but I think it's all over to Asian country do this by the way. Or I think all Asian countries do this.
I think most people who watch anime or read manga knew about this.
Still, it really should be adopted by every country. I'm a lazy adult who only cleans when things get out of hand, and I mostly put it down to having things done for my in my early years. I never had to do chores until my teens, and by then my hormones were kicking in and I went though a rebellious phase, leaving me without the habits and life skills that these kids will gain.
And no, I'm not blaming someone else for my laziness. I have the power to change it now, but old habits die hard. It's more about knowing how and when my habits formed.
+The Ramos Online Indeed it should but I'm alright with the standard cleaning, whereas in we employ janitors to clean up part of our mess in the day.
+The Ramos Online so true lol, . but i always thought it was a good idea
+The Ramos Online So much truth. I got used to just waiting for my parents to clean for me as a little kid and now it's a battle of wills vs laziness to clean and organize. It's a great idea to get kids cleaning up after themselves every day, whether it's fun or not. At the very least it'll teach them organizational skills so they're less likely to misplace things in stacks of stuff.
+The Ramos Online I'm just like you when it comes to cleaning, except I didn't have things done for me. On the contrary, because I was born a girl I had to clean, cook, do laundry and then clean again after everyone is done eating. I don't hate to clean, I just love being lazy because I feel that I need to indulge myself.I love being lazy because to me it's self-care. But My house had teamwork and cleaning after ourselves I would be a different person today, probably more productive. Teamwork and picking up after yourself are two concepts that have no meaning in my culture. Women cook and clean.
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Hello, what is that mean hormones were kicking in and what is a rebellious phase?
By the way I'm past my teens, it's just that I never heard that much, before.
I wish it could happen in indian schools but unfortunately indian schools don't teach us life lessons because here only marks and exam's percentage matters . I'm studying hard to go to Japan ,research about how they teach their children and then i will come back to India to open a practical school inspired from these schools . I don't want our future generations to face the difficulties that we are facing today in indian schools.
This is actually a really good lesson. Some schools were like this in America
Love this civilization.Few countries may be like this.
Japan - superior society
In Puerto Rico teachers do this but not always, we used to clean and paint the school, maybe not the toilets, but all the other yes and it was fun, they teach kids to arrange tables and serve food too
Do this in the USA parents would be filling out lawsuits. Japan is just beyond this universe.
all i know is if they did this in america kids would be less likely to pee on the seats.
Same to my country so much fun .
They start so young!!! We need this in America ❤🎉
Love japan from singapore❤
even some part of southeast asia have this..like philippines. starts from gradeschool to highschool.
Thailand too. I love this tradition because students learn to cooperate with each other and feel proud of the work we accomplish for our class.
Such a small sized lunch portions, even for children... But the whole idea is absolutely wonderful!
Kids have a lot more potential in every area. Teaching and nurturing them the right way is important. I'm working hard on my channel to help toddlers and kids learn a life skill or two.
Happy cleaning kids!
Go Japan!
OMG! there's a roundeye at :38 seconds.
In Japan, during the period of compulsory public elementary school education (ages 6-12), children attend school and go to school under the guidance of the Board of Education of each local prefectural government, which determines the system of attending elementary schools under its jurisdiction independently for each region.
In many cases, elementary school students in the neighborhood where they live form a group as ”a children's association”, and each year, a leader student is chosen and the children gather in groups under the leader to go to school alone.
This is called the "group school attendance" system.
In public schools, children from all neighborhoods, regardless of parental wealth, gather together and go to school alone. Each children's association has its own fixed route to school.
Therefore, there is no need for parents to drive their children to and from school.
The PTA organization, consisting mainly of parents from the community, takes turns assisting the children to school at designated areas, such as busy and dangerous intersections, with volunteers including mothers of children in the children's association and retired elderly people from the community.
(They carry yellow flags for traffic safety and assist with traffic signals, etc.)
There are two advantages to this system:
One is that the children's parents can commute to their own jobs in the morning, saving time from having to attend to the children's transportation to and from school every day.
The second benefit is that children do not have to depend on their parents to go to school, and instead, they are able to foster a sense of independence and self-reliance by going to school together.
This is a great opportunity for children to experience and learn about social activities.
This is possible because all parents and adults share the awareness that "all children are the treasure of society" and that "helping children grow is an important factor in improving society in the future.
It can be done because all adults (not just their own children) share the awareness that "helping all children in the community in which they reside grow up is an important factor for the betterment of their own country and society," and because they believe it is important to "support and help each other to grow up, not just their own children, but all children in all communities."
They also believe that by allowing children to go to school alone, this activity will help them to lose their habit of relying on adults, to look after their environment and protect themselves by themselves, and to grow in the spirit of self-responsibility and self-reliance.
Taking turns in preparing, serving, and cleaning up lunch for the school lunch duty, and having the children clean up their own classrooms before going home are also part of the social learning experience that helps them learn the significance of voluntarily keeping the environment clean through their own experiences.
All of this is part of the idea that in order for each child to grow into an independent adult, school is not only about learning, but also about learning about society through their own experiences during their daily school life.
They learn the necessity of these basic daily behaviors through real-life experiences and develop habits in their children.
While it is very difficult to change one's behavior as an adult, it is easy to acquire them as a child, and once acquired, life thereafter becomes easier and smoother.
These Japanese-style education teaches children wisdom and basic behavioral habits at school that will help them survive in social life when they become adults.
Of course, the reason why this concept has been taught in Japan since ancient times as a form of discipline education for children,
and has continued to the present day, is because it is a necessity that everyone living in Japan must learn in order to survive in the unique natural environment of Japan, a warm and humid island nation surrounded by the sea, which is geopolitically very different from life on the continent.
Thanks!
Clean and calm makes a person a good Servent 🤗 🙏
one for all, all for one.
I appreciate it.
We do this at our adult day support program. I vacuumed the game room rug today
We also do this in Philippines!
dang it,I wish i was in a school like this
my U.S school does this too!!
real life education...love u kids
Amazing
Their so cute!
wish school in Poland looked like that
All childrens are so cute like doll
True, in Indian villages children look like shit.
In ireland we kinda do this.. like thered be a rota for people to collect rubbish after lunch and throw the bag outside to be put in the big bin etc..
And sweep ! And wipes the board and tables
But they actually paid me to spend a day cleaning the lockers over the summer aswell
That's true !!
This is a great story. I have a presentation to share Japanese culture. Do you allow me to share the video with my colleagues in my presentaiton?
Same here in the Philippines, but sometimes it ends on a fight just because one felt lazy to do so and the other scolds it, and there it grew more and more hahahahahaha
The Japanese secret of the respect , that is why to Japan you see nothing broken at the public area , no graffitis..
P.LAUNAY.DEBNATH Graffiti are a type of art tho
well done japan....