Bumpy ride to driver’s licence
After an hour of driving in circles practicing right-hand Tsuneyoshi Yagi is ready to change direction and practice left-hand turns. A sudden yell of criticism from his driving instructor upsets him as he practices and he hits one of the guide posts’ in the course. Bowing, he apologises ,”This is only my second time behind the wheel . l still have a long way to go.”
Mr Yagi is one of the many Japanese who want to learn to drive and one of the 3% of learner-drivers who attend residential ‘cram’ schools, often in remote parts of the country , to do so .His course lasts seventeen days and he stays each night in a dormitory at the school. Despite the high fees he has paid he shares a crowded, uncomfortable room with seven other people all of whom sleep on mattresses on the floor with little space between them.
The 50 residential cram schools for learner- drivers in Japan reflect the Japanses people’s belief in cramming, short periods of hard work studying a subject, as an aid in passing examinations . Keigo Endo, who attended such a school two years ago claims , ”Driving schools are murder. But if you don’t go , it might take 20 tries before you pass. “Students at these schools can sit their driving test before departing although they still have a one hour written test to do after returning home.
Students at cram schools are in a hurry. Many have just left college. They pay the hogh fees and give up holiday thim to be taught quickly, just before taking up new jobs. Not everyone believes this way of learning to drive is the best however. Masao Ilegami, manager if the Tokyo Nissan Driving School, believes it takes six months to develop the physical and mental skills necessary for successful driving . “Seventeen days just isn’t enough,” he says. “You have to develop the proper spiritual attitude.”
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