Alice's kindergarten dance

It's a dance they do everyday as they leave school and it's really long and involved. Oh, and it is so very cute when a 3 year old does it.

Can you believe that at 3 years old she has already been taught at school all the stops on the Keikyu Train Line between Tokyo and her home?

Her mom Tae, who is also Japanese (although, to be fair, Tae was Japanese first), says that in their schools they cram the kid's heads so full of any information that they can think of on the theory that kids are gonna forget stuff. But if you fill their little noggins really, really full, then when they forget stuff they still got a lot left. It works for them because they don't spend a lot of time anguishing about "self-esteem" issues.

There's an argument for that, I guess. And there's an argument for skipping school and eating blackberries. Think it just depends on how you want to argue.

Travelin' Ed