So there's this man's name is James Stigler.

James Stigler teaches psychology out at UCLA currently,

but when he was a grad student,

he went to University of Michigan.

In 1979, he traveled to Japan,

and read this article about this trip to Japan,

where he just wanted to study like kind of Asian teaching

practices, because that's what his expertise is,

is basically observational learning in classrooms and whatnot.

And he tells the story about being there

in one of these Japanese classrooms,

fourth graders.

And the lesson for the day was teaching the fourth graders

how to draw like a 3D cube, you know, in a piece of paper.

And there was one of the students,

most of the students got it right away.

One student couldn't get it for life of him.

And so the teacher called that student up

to try to draw the 3D cube on the blackboard,

on the chalkboard.

And when James Stigler says, you know,

that's funny because in the States,

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