Now high schools are the places where they receive a high school graduation certificate, not places where they receive a higher level of education than in junior high schools. That the students lack a clear sense of purpose highlights this phenomenon. It is not the students' own desire to continue on to high school, but their parents desire or the community s pressure that makes them decide to take high school entrance examinations. They sit still in class and, if they pass most of the examinations, they are allowed to graduate and continue on to college or go directly into business. Presently all Japanese Junior high school students are admitted to high school whether or not they are intelligent and whether or not they have a desire to learn.
Competition is definitely a necessity for our growth.
If anybody can do something, people don't have a strong desire to learn about it. However, if only a small number of people are able to do something, we then become very interested in it. For instance, not everyone can enter Tokyo University, so the students who really want to enter Tokyo University have to study much harder than anyone else. Today, anyone can continue on to high school, which means that the quality of high schools will decrease along with the quality of the high school graduates. Another phenomenon can be seen in students' uniforms.