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The teachers I had were usually not good at teaching and would only teach one method. If the students did not understand they would say oh well you need to study more and then they would leave it.
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Well, that can and does happen in Japan too, perhaps even more so than the US. In Japan teachers tend to stick to the textbook and teach to the test. There's not usually a lot of innovative new teaching techniques or different ways of teaching to get to different kinds of students. If you learn it and do well on the test, you go to an academic school and eventually a university. If not, you are put in a vocational school with little hope of university... you are taught a trade like auto mechanic or farmer and that's what you'll be in life because you didn't do well on a test as a kid...