最近、本屋やテレビで「日本が誇る○○技術」という言葉を聞きます。
Recently, I often hear phrases "Technology that Japan boasts to the world" in a bookstore and TV program.
凄い違和感と(ときおり嫌悪感も)感じます。
Whenever I hear the phrase, I have a great feeling of wrongness and disgust.
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Previously, I calculated a ration between humanities department and sciences department in Japan, when I investigated school expresses in Japan.
ざっくり、7：3。
It's almost 7:3.
理系学部出身者が、全部、科学者やエンジニアになっている訳ではないことを考えると、さらに文系比率が高いことになりそうです。
The ratio of humanities department might become high, because not all of the student graduated from sciences department become scientists and engineers.
今、この日記を電車の中で書いているのですが、この車両に30人ほどいますので、理系の職業についている人は9人程度となる訳です。
Now I am writing this daily in a commute train, and I can find almost 30 persons in this cargo. So, there are only nine persons who work for science field.
それはさておき。
The above aside.
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以前、我が国が「ゆとり教育」という試みを行った時、
When Japan used to try a new education concept of "pressure-free education", so called,
―― 二次方程式などは社会へ出て何の役にも立たないので、このようなものは追放すべきだ
"The quadratic equations is not useful for our life at all, so we should banish these equations"
という、奥方(作家)の意見を間に受けて、我が国の数学力の低下に最大限の貢献をした作家がいたそうです。
There seemed to be a fatuous novelist who made a great contribute to the lowering of mathematics in Japan, taking stupid his wife's comment seriously.
『こういう奴がいるから、自分の借金の金利の計算もできないまま、自己破産していく人が断たないのだ』
"Because of the existence of such a fool, persons, who go bankrupt without calculating their rate of debt, are increasing.
と思ったことを、よく覚えています。
I remember very well at that time.
(To be continued)