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<p class="Normal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">A symposium of education methods which provides motivation to students was held at Waseda University at November 9th, 2012. It was a great symposium of more than 20 people giving presentations. The greatest point of this symposium was that 13 of these students (including 2 students graduating this year) are currently receiving the lecture of &ldquo;Motivation&rdquo;. It was just like live coverage of the usual lecture of education methods given by Ken Kawan Soetanto, a professor at Faculty of International Liberal Studies Director, Clinical Education and Science Research Institute. </p>
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Many of the assemblies may not be able to have a concrete idea what kind of presentations are done by students in the middle of studying about education methods. However, I was looking forward to their presentations because they are the ones who are taking lessons about education methods of motivation and feeling changes every day. I have been hearing their experience for about 3 years and was bringing impressive scenes in the class to mind. Their presentations were beyond my imagination. I could see their joy of giving presentations and their progress, especially the last 2 students who only began taking lessons a month ago.<br />
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<p class="Normal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'ＭＳ 明朝'; font-size: 10pt;">I have gone to many congresses of students&rsquo; presentation but have never seen students doing presentations with such confidence and enjoyment. Moreover, all of those presentations were different although their topic was same. It wasn&rsquo;t only the presentations that were unique but also each of the students was unique too. There was a student who was forgotten by society and was called a &ldquo;monster student&rdquo;. Some students suffered from depression or didn&rsquo;t have a goal in their life. One of them played Tsugaru-jamisen which is a Japanese instrument during his presentation. <br />
&nbsp;Everyone was full of confidence which they gained from classes of &ldquo;Soetanto Education Methods&rdquo;. Prof. Soento&rsquo;s endless challenge of &ldquo;raising motivation of any students&rdquo; can be said to be mostly successful. <br />
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<p class="Normal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">&nbsp;Lastly, I&rsquo;d like to introduce a text from a paper written by Hiromatu, who used to be a &ldquo;monster student&rdquo; and now a student leader. </p>
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<p class="Normal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:ＭＳ 明朝;mso-fareast-font-family:ＭＳ 明朝;font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;Prof. Soetanto thinks the situation that University students don&rsquo;t study much and that our society approving it should not be continued. He told me how hard he tries to change this situation and that was the moment I found an encouraging friend for me. In other words, Prof. Soetanto&rsquo;s presence as one human was a great encouragement for me. From then, I was interested not only in studies but also in teachers. I became to have an interest in professors at Waseda University. I didn&rsquo;t only take lectures but also went to professors&rsquo; offices and had conversation with them to know about the lecture as well as their background of starting their research. <br />
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<p class="Normal" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:ＭＳ 明朝;mso-fareast-font-family:ＭＳ 明朝;font-size:10.0pt;color:#3366ff;">To educators<br />
&nbsp;Although it is important to have knowledge, I think students have these kinds of questions beforehand; why do we study? What do teachers have in mind when they are teaching? What are teachers like? What are the dreams for teachers? Are they challenging something now? I think they want to hear answers to these questions from teachers. Moreover, if they have decision to help students earnestly not to throw out their future, I assure that miracles that are happening in classes of &ldquo;Soento Education Methods&rdquo; can happen in your classes too. As a parent who has a child who needs to choose his course soon, I hope that day will come to you as soon as possible. <br />
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translated by Yukiko nishiwaki (Waseda Univ.)<br />
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