Horror for Newbies

From the Bookshelf of Around the World in 80 Books…

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
Jul 26, 2009 rated it really liked it
Shelves: japan
What are Japanese schools really like? That's a question I'm interested in. Turns out, according to Bruce Feiler, Japanese schools are overcrowded and overly focused on discipline and structure. Why are they so successful, then? They are successful in producing students who work well in overcrowded, disciplined and structured situations. Japanese schools are remarkably bad in producing creative and self-motivated students. As a librarian working in the public schools, I found this a fascinating ...more
 · see review
alana
Mar 27, 2007 rated it really liked it
Shelves: travel, non-fiction, intercultural-japan
Jen
Aug 01, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: japan
Nikki
Nov 28, 2008 rated it really liked it
Curlysue
Sep 16, 2018 rated it liked it
Mary
Apr 27, 2010 rated it liked it
Kristen
Jul 01, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: non-fiction
Janna
Nov 04, 2013 marked it as to-read
Suzanne
Dec 21, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, outside-us-england
Eleanor
Feb 06, 2016 marked it as to-read
Jocelyn
Sep 18, 2016 marked it as to-read
Terri
May 17, 2017 marked it as around-the-world  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: memoir-general, japanese-culture
Suzanne
Jul 16, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
52937

Around the World in 80 Books

Group Home Bookshelf Discussions
Photos Videos
Send invite Members Polls