In America, we spend billions of dollars on education in America and it seems that we still have failing schools and failing students.
What we need to do is go back to teaching methods that were successful in the old days. We also need to change our public school curriculum to what worked in the past. In other words, we need to go back to the basics of education with today's technology of course. This is reading, writing and arithmetic. Wait until high school to teach computers.
Yes. Right now, we have a curriculum that demands students to be like the Japanese and not America. Can America be like Japan? In some ways economically yes.