Japanese School Teachers
According to a report over at Markezine over 50% of Japanese school students hardly ever or never ask their teacher when they don't understand something. Only about 35% try to make a point of asking.
I think I was the same in school but always made a point of asking when in university studying Japanese and Korean.
I can relate to folks feeling awkward and embarrassed to ask the teacher something but would like to offer a few words of wisdom that I heard on the Internets:-
You are a fool for 5 mins if you ask.
You are a fool for life if you don't.
Or something along those lines.
On a separate note, in the same report, the Nintendo DS turned out to be the second most used method of studying outside classroom hours. Maybe playing educational games like Kumatanchi?
Image from Kumatan.
