In Japan, students clean their own school. Not because the school is too poor to hire janitors. Because the floor you walk on is supposed to feel like yours. The 8-year-old gets a rag. The 13-year-old gets a broom. The principal sweeps too, on Fridays. Japan also has roughly 99 percent literacy and one of the highest math scores in the developed world. Not because schools have more money. Because students who scrub a floor at 8 do not feel above scrubbing a problem at 18. Think about the last time you watched a child refuse to pick something up because it wasn’t theirs. Think about who taught them that. And who didn’t teach them otherwise. Japan built a different contract. Not signed in pen. Not enforced by punishment. Just expected. Of everyone. Always. 🇯🇵