Accelerated Passage of Time in Children When I was in elementary school a week seemed to be a very long stretch of time. Each day crept by and the activities which filled it seemed to drag by. When I first started teaching in Japan almost 40 years ago, I felt that my elementary and junior high students had similar impressions of the passage of their weeks. Obviously, their time was stuffed with more activities and TV than mine was in the days where there were so few things to occupy everyone’s free time. In my case, we didn’t get a TV until I was in 4th grade, and library books, conversation and whatever piqued my interest in the environment filled my free time. Still, even in the 1980’s I got the impression from my students’ responses to homework that they […]
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