Japan adding mandatory programming education to all elementary schools
In Japan, English is already mandatory, yet, English fluency sucks. Japan recognizes the problem, but doesn't know what to do about it. Basically, English education has yet to succeed. [1][2]<p>This is the thing about Japan. They can make these moves that are incredibly progressive and ambitious -- visionary even, yet, they really have no idea how to go about doing it.<p>As it stands, they don't have enough teachers that can program, so teachers from other subjects will be filling in picking up the material from textbooks as they go along.<p>From what I've witnessed from my school years, I guarantee you the smarter students will be correcting their teachers and making a mockery of them. It happens whenever there is an English native speaker in a Japanese English class (guilty as charged), and it will happen whenever there is a real programmer in one of these "programming" classes -- at least for the foreseeable future.<p>---<p>[1] <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/03/28/editorials/disappointing-levels-english/" rel="nofollow">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/03/28/editorials/di...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/whats-wrong-with-english-education-in-japan-pull-up-a-chair" rel="nofollow">http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/whats-wron...</a>