In Japan, children clean their own schools.Every day. After lunch.About twenty minutes.Classrooms.Hallways.Toilets.Not because the schools are too poorto hire someone.Because in 1947, this country decidedthat cleaning your own spaceis part of becoming a person.The cleaning ragis on the school supply list.Right next to the pencils.Egypt teaches it now.So does Indonesia.So does Mongolia.Think about the last timeyou watched a seven-year-oldmop a floor without complaining.Japan does thatin every elementary schoolin the country.Not as punishment.As education.