Hey Reader! I’ve always loved learning about how other cultures approach things we take for granted. Take, for example, school. In America, we often get siloed into tracks of learning and a mindset that focuses on what we can’t do. Oh, I’m bad at math. I can’t spell. I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket . . . Imagine my surprise, then, when I learned about an educational approach in Japan that emphasized the opposite. If you were strong in verbal skills and weaker in math, they might put you...