私が通っているESLクラスで使用しているテキストの内容が非常にアメリカらしいと思ったので紹介します。ある2児の母親が二人の個性について話すシーンのリスニング。一人は数学が得意で数学コンテストで優勝した子、もう一人が楽器を弾くのが得意で、作曲もするとてもクリエイティブな子。二人はそれぞれの分野に才能があって、優劣はないという内容でした。個性を重んじる教育は素晴らしいと思いながらも、どの個性も等しく評価されているとは限らない現状とのギャップを感じました。
I'd like to introduce the material I use in my ESL class because I thought the content was like American. It was a listening material that a mother of two kids was talking about her children's personalities. One was good at mathematics and won a mathematics contest. Another is good at playing instruments and is such a creative person that he can also make songs. The material concluded that each had a talent in different ways, so there was no winner or loser. Although I thought education to respect their personality is great, I felt a gap somehow between the current situation that every personality wasn't evaluated equally.
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I'd like to share the contents of the textbook that we use in the ESL class I attend because I found it to be very American. It's a listening exercise featuring a scene where a mother discusses the personalities of her two children. One child excels in math and has won a math contest, While the other child is skilled at playing musical instruments and composing music, showing great creativity. The message conveyed each child has their own talents in their respective fields, and there's no superiority or inferiority between them. While I appreciate the emphasis on evaluating individuality in education, it made me realize the gap between the ideal and the reality where not all talents are equally recognized.