ゆとり世せ代だい

noun

generation educated under the 'pressure-free' system

Refers to Japanese students educated under the yutori (relaxed) education reforms from the late 1970s onward, often associated with reduced curriculum and Saturday school holidays. The term can carry a slightly critical or stereotyped nuance about the generation's perceived lack of academic rigor or common sense.

See also: ゆとり教育 (ゆとりきょういく)

• ゆとり世せ代だいは、詰つめ込こみ教きょう育いくを受うけた世せ代だいとは価か値ち観かんが違ちがうと言いわれる。

  It is said that the yutori generation has different values from the generation that received cram-style education.

• 彼かれはゆとり世せ代だいだから、円えん周しゅう率りつを3で計けい算さんしたと思おもわれがちだ。

  Because he is from the yutori generation, people tend to think he calculated pi as 3.