This post might be a little bit obscure, but I was thinking about language education today and recalled this bizzare post originally found by a friend of mine in Japan
You don’t really need to understand Japanese to get the subtle hint that this is exactly like the free public Japanese classes in Japan. Understanding Japanese helps, but not required.
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Help me out, because I didn’t get it at all — unless the students were supposed to be repeating after the teacher, but they were repeating a phonetically similar phrase, not the exact one.
The teacher is the focus of humor here. He clearly is simply just teaching them through memorization but doesn’t seem to care at all what he is doing. This is exactly how ALL education is in Japan. The teacher drones on and on in front of the classroom, the students regurgitate to the best of their ability, and then everyone goes away thinking learning happened.
In this case, especially, he teaches some pretty f’ed up stuff (if you understand Japanese it increases the humor potential), but if you have ever been in a classroom in Asia (or more and more a university lecture hall in the U.S.) you will find the same level of commitment on both sides of the lecturn. It humor (if you understand the experience, and more so if you understand Japanese) and commentary on educational standards.