10/7 ARW

Rab's statements were valuable and reasonable.But why had we not given many comments to our partners' essays? This passiveness derives from the difference of educational attitudes between a western culture and a Japanese culture.

In western world, perhaps not especially in education, the quality of work such as assignments in school has been valued. The process hasn't mattered to evaluators. So peer work is not unnatural.

On the other hand, in Japan from entering junior high school to graduating from high school, students has rarely done homework by themselves. For peer work they had done just in elementary school students. So for students peer work is reminded nostalgically. We aren't used to work with others.

Both of styles are necessary and essential for educating persons before becoming working members of society.

In the meaning of these opposite concepts, Japanese might be more individualistic than people in western cultures.