Geocentric Theory

A shocking news came out.

TOKYO — A survey of 720 students in the fourth to sixth grades at selected Japanese schools showed Monday that around 40% of them said they believe the sun goes around Earth, while nearly 30% were not aware of which direction the sun sets.

The survey conducted by Hidehiko Agata, an associate professor at the National Astronomical Observatory, also revealed that more than 50% of the pupils could not explain why there are phases of the moon. (Kyodo News)

Are they turning back to the 16th century? That's why people believe various fake scientific terms like minus-ion.

The "dropping-out" of students has been a serious problem in Japanese educational scene. The Ministry of Education had not raised the teacher's leadership or quality of teaching methods, but only reduced the contents of curriculum. It's very easy thought and actually the drop-out students are not decreasing.

Originally, Japanese people had respected spiritual things from ancient times. However, we should not neglect to study about science because today we have received much of the benefit from science and technology. People seem to think that the science is a special field and not all the people need to study it. But they accept the pecuniary value of science. So there are also many persons who try to deceive people by pretending their fraud as science.
I think that elementary school is not too early to learn the scientific foundation in order not to be deceived by that kind of fraud. Treating science as a "surplus knowledge" causes Japanese people to be bad at logical thinking.