A survey reportedly asked couples around the world whether they wanted another child, and Japan and South Korea recorded the lowest figures. One major reason is education costs.
Certainly, education costs are extraordinarily high. Children attend cram schools until late at night from elementary school onward and pay tuition. They go to private schools and pay endlessly for donations and other things.
It is abnormal.
After spending all that money to enter university, they play around and become foolish.
It is strange.
How could it be reformed?
What if admission to national universities were made open?
At the University of Tokyo or Hitotsubashi, everyone who wanted to enter could do so. However, everyone would pay an admission fee. (Even then, it would be insignificant compared with the education costs spent up to that point.) Then there would be no need for absurd entrance-exam study. University finances would also improve.
In exchange, only half could advance 1 academic year each year. The rest would be dismissed. (However, they could take the credits earned so far and attend another university that would accept them.) Only 1/16 could graduate. One could not graduate without studying desperately. Therefore, the level of Japanese people would rise as well.
What do you think?