episode_0098

When I told Do Yoo-geon about Yumina’s hopeful and vague plan, he let out an exclamation. I am living a life befitting my status as a student, just occasionally exploring cracks and raising my level, but Yumina must have looked amazing as she was walking a tightrope against political power.

“That’s not something to just admire. The more optimistic you are about future plans, the more likely you are to achieve great things, but there are limits to that.”

I bundled up the blanket into a ball, wrapped myself in it, and rolled around in bed. The pillow was bothering me, so I threw it off the bed to create more space.

“It is a huge loss to focus on an almost impossible goal. If you think about the mental and physical strength that goes into it, it is a truly terrible loss. We are at an age where we wake up fine one night and act without calculating opportunity cost, but that shouldn’t happen.”

In reality, this side is wasting their lives in real time.

“I see.”

I heard a half-hearted answer as if I was going to roughly guess the answer. When I stopped rolling around and looked at him, he was solving the problem paper without even looking at me.

Yes.

“I’m giving you advice that becomes the lifeblood of your life, but what’s your reaction?”

As I was looking at Do Yu-geon, he put down his pen and turned his chair.

“It’s because I’m so absorbed in studying, which is my life and flesh.”

If you answer like that, I have nothing to say since you are the one who arbitrarily broke into someone else’s room. We had a snowball fight for a while and then sneakily avoided it.

“Since when did you say you were a model student?”

“It happened thanks to a young lady urging me on. Don’t you study?”

“Sitting at a desk all day is something that only kids who can’t study do.”

“I want to deny it…”

Do Yu-geon sighed. It seems difficult to find a plausible rebuttal. I heard that the top student in the entire school is like that, so what can we do?

“If you complete the high school curriculum before entering high school, you won’t have to waste time trying to understand the concepts, and you won’t have to worry about having a lot to memorize. If you do that, you can only solve advanced problems and review according to your memory cycle for 3 years, so there’s no reason to hold on to it for a long time. .”

“It’s easy to say, but when you’re in middle school, you have to study for middle school.”

“You shouldn’t have studied that back then. You should have finished middle school when you were in elementary school.”

“Then you study in kindergarten?”

The guy said it with an absurd tone. It’s a disappointing reaction.

“That’s gone too far. If you force children to study in kindergarten, it will be difficult to form a relationship of trust between parents and children, which will lead to serious trouble during adolescence. Elementary school is for six years, so you can complete elementary school and middle school in six years.”

It looks like he has a lot to say.

“I’m not as smart as you, so it would be impossible.”

“I’m kind of average.”

“Are you serious?”

“It’s because you haven’t met geniuses.”

A genius is so genius that you can clearly know it when you experience it. Even if it is a judgment based on prejudice.

“What solves elementary school difficulties is not the intelligence of elementary school students, but the wisdom and wallet of parents.”

It may seem difficult to complete a 9-year curriculum in 6 years of elementary school, but it is actually not that difficult. In the first place, there are many unnecessary elements in the elementary and middle school curriculum, so there are many things that will not be a problem in entering college even if you skip them without studying them.

Since high school courses require admission to college, it is difficult to teach minors even if there is something that minors think they need to learn from the perspective of the country or society if it does not help them advance to college. So, we put those as electives and hope that the student will be interested and study all the electives. Of course, there are very few students who would do that.

In contrast, in elementary and middle school, everything that is necessary is taught, but of course, there is a lot of unnecessary stuff in college. Things like the culture one must have as a democratic citizen and the civic consciousness one must have as an adult are important, but they are not necessary for going to college.

It is not that difficult to complete a 9-year course in 6 years if you omit all of this unnecessary education and study only the parts necessary for entering college in conjunction with the high school curriculum.

However, there are a few things you need. First, parents must humbly accept that their children will not receive perfect scores in all subjects until high school because they have not studied all the curriculum. This requires patience and wisdom.

Advice from a private education expert is also essential to analyze and organize which educational content is unnecessary for college admission. Because they must be a group of exceptional experts who can draw up a 12-year college entrance roadmap that encompasses elementary, middle, and high school courses without being concerned about immediate test scores that will help the academy’s reputation, high-cost, customized private education is needed rather than a mass-produced academy.

And parents must continue to maintain a trusting relationship so that they can soothe their children, who are likely to go through a chaotic adolescence due to studying from elementary school, and persuade them to study. It becomes more difficult for dual-income couples because it is advantageous for one person to stay at home to take care of the children.

To summarize, parents should be leisurely, the family should be wealthy, and the family should be harmonious.

Usually, these houses are called upper class, but in any case, it is a roadmap that is possible if parents work hard. It’s not for nothing that they say that college admission is decided during elementary school.

Do Yoo-geon’s parents were a dual-income couple, so this roadmap was difficult, but in fact, it was possible if my childhood friend Lee worked hard. Since we were the same age, we had an advantage.

But it didn’t mean anything, so I didn’t bother to do it. Roadmaps like that are something only the upper class of intellectuals do, and if your parents own a company or are running a business, there is no need to live that tight life. It’s really nice to do it. This is the easiest way to help your child gain confidence that he or she made it on their own without any help from their parents.

Well, if it seems like it’s going to be a problem, how will you solve it, whether it’s an adult, Cha Ha-neul, putting in a parachute or providing you with business expenses to start a business?

Maybe that’s why I don’t like the fact that he spends so much time studying. It’s clear that this is the one who told me to study, but I don’t like it because they actually take care of the study.

As I was looking at him feeling a little sullen, he was twirling the pen with one hand.

“Even if there was a way, I feel like I have to study for a long time now.”

“I guess high school youth isn’t a waste.”

“It’s not a waste. I stay with you.”

“Well, I wonder what I’m missing when I have a beautiful girl like me as my childhood friend. Then, just go study.”

After being persuaded, I rolled around in bed again. It’s okay to waste time at an important moment in your life. I wish I could do this for the rest of my life.

I could feel the presence of people at the open door.

“I peeled an apple. Does anyone want to eat it?”

Yumina came carrying a plate. I raised my hand while lying down.

“Yumina with a hopeful plan has arrived.”

“Is it that bad?”

“I’m already thinking about how to console myself after my failure.”

Actually, I’m not worried about it, but I’m sure Cha Ha-neul of the future will be worried about it.

Yumina became sullen and complained to Do Yu-geon.

“Isn’t it right to usually support your friends when they make plans for the future?”

“It’s good to support them.”

“Does our young lady really need to develop social skills?”

Do Yu-geon did not respond to those words. Instead, I laughed under my breath. No, that doesn’t mean I didn’t answer. They gossip openly in front of me.

Yumina handed over a plate of apples. I didn’t want to receive it while lying down, so I sat up. It’s a rabbit apple. The apple peel is tasteless.

“It is true that fruit peels contain a variety of nutrients, but the amount eaten is small, so it is not of much help.”

“If I don’t want to eat it, I take it back?”

I’m not saying I won’t eat it.

I ate a rabbit with a fork. Half of the apple was crunchy, and the part with the apple peel broke off. There are two types of texture.

Yumina left after watching others eat apples for a while to see what was interesting.

Apples are delicious, but their crunchy texture makes them difficult to chew. Is that why tangerines are so popular? Soft and sweet tangerines. Peeling the skin is a very annoying task, but it can be solved if someone else does it for you.

I grabbed a plate of apples and got out of bed. I slowly approached Do Yu-geon, who had started studying again, and looked at the question paper. It’s a differential. Is it prior learning? Still, the progress is too fast.

“Weren’t you here last time?”

“I got tired of doing similar things, so I decided to study something famous for a while.”

“You’re studying interestingly. But your solution is wrong. Aren’t you confusing the formula?”

He paused and looked through the front page to find an explanation of the concept.

“I think so.”

He was frowning, so I gently pressed it with my finger to tell him to straighten it.

“Calculus covers a different area from existing math courses, so it may be quite unfamiliar when you first encounter it. That’s why it’s fun.”

“It’s new.”

“I was shocked when I first encountered calculus. I was able to imagine the mathematics I was learning through images in my head, but I was surprised to learn that calculus had to be imagined through images. It’s literally on a different level.”

Although it is not from this life but from a past life, it is a happy memory.

“It was obvious that in order to understand the world, there must be mathematics that infers high dimensions from low dimensions and low dimensions from high dimensions, but it was also shocking that I didn’t feel uncomfortable about not knowing before I learned it. “I thought it was natural, but why didn’t I feel like I was lacking?”

Personally, I was disappointed with the educational process. Shouldn’t such an important, practical, and fun concept be taught in middle school so that students can enjoy acquiring the knowledge itself, separate from college entrance exams?

It’s literally an area on a different level than before, but the basic concept itself isn’t that difficult, so it would have been nice to skip the intermediate steps. Because they learn it only at the end of high school, there are too many students who are so prejudiced that they cannot accept the fact that mathematics is a completely different thing.

I was complaining, but he didn’t seem to empathize much.

… … What is it?

Did I hold on too much to the child studying?

I put the pillow I had left on the floor on the bed, tidied up the blanket, and left the room.

Cha Ha-neul, who is less important than studying, should read books diligently.

Yes, reading is good.

It’s food for the mind.

I’m really looking forward to that.