Naruseya Osaku's Diary: A New Novel Idea by an Active College Student Cram School Principal, Title Still Pending

I am Saku Naruse.
Nice to meet you.
Let me introduce myself.

I am a female college student living in Kyoto.
I view the world from a 30-degree angle.

I cannot bring myself to call mobile phones 'sumaho' or convenience stores 'konbini'.
If someone says that to me, I snap and lecture them, saying, 'In Taiwan, they call FamilyMart "Quan Jia Bian Li Shang Dian"!'
I get troubled when people talk to me about anime.
I hate phonies.

Basically, I dislike the common rabble, but I like the masses.
People think I have a bad personality.
Some even say I'm broken.

Even so, I'm surprisingly cute; in high school, I was selected for the school's student recruitment poster for three years in a row.

I declared this.

That's right. From today, I will be working here.

The students seemed quite surprised.

For starters, I forbade the students from chatting.
I forbade them from saying 'sumaho'.
I forbade them from saying 'konbini'.
If they even thought about talking about 'Demon Slayer', I would snap at them without mercy.

At first, I watched how the students studied, but the system here was for the previous instructor to have the students choose their own reference books based on their abilities and study on their own.
The instructor just guides them.

Unforgivable!

I shouted.

Everyone, if you study properly, anyone should be able to pass the entrance exam for Kyoto University.

First, English.

I set the goal of reading Western books without a dictionary.

That's easy.

Everyone just needs to read good books that will become a treasure for life.

First, I'll have them read Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'.

To read this, you need to build up a certain level of vocabulary. Since you'll get discouraged if you look up every single word in a dictionary, the shortcut is to memorize a vocabulary book like Duo 3.0, where words are listed in example sentences without repetition, and raise the level of your vocabulary. This is killing two birds with one stone because you can build up your grammar at the same time.
While doing this, you read school grammar books and readers to build up your strength until you can read Western books.
Once you can read Western books, you'll definitely get hooked. You'll start reading from front to back in the correct word order with an 'English brain'. You should visualize what you read in your head. You should read a lot of things like Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
I also want you to read Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day'.
Anyway, eliminate Japanese.
If you're asked to translate it into Japanese, you'll manage somehow.

For mathematics, we will cover up to the university liberal arts curriculum.
Things like differential and integral calculus and linear algebra.
In the Kyoto University exam, they make you explain linear independence or linear dependence before solving the problem, but if you know it from the start, you can solve it in an instant.

To pique their interest in the magnificent palace of mathematics, I will show them pi and e using Maclaurin series expansion.
I will let them experience Euler's identity, which Professor Feynman called the treasure of humanity, where pi (geometry), e (analysis), and i (algebra) are beautifully connected.

I took the reference books away from the students and made them follow the textbooks I created.

A fierce backlash arose from the students.

And then, their parents, who had become the embodiment of the common rabble, came storming in.

I immediately gave a presentation using PowerPoint.

To teach English, I talked about things like Proto-Indo-European and the Hittites. I explained how it crossed over to the British Isles via the Anglo-Saxons, confronted the Latin-based French language across the English Channel, and fused intensely to create the English we have today.

For the math talk, I discussed differential equations and Laplace transforms, explaining that many students drop out even if they go into science, so they need to get used to abstract theories while they are young.

Well, when you talk enthusiastically about things people don't understand, they tend to feel like they've somehow understood it and back off.

And so I climbed my way up to become the principal, and now I run this cram school.

The future of the students?

I don't care about that.

As long as I get paid, that's all that matters.

That is how our voyage began. No matter how rough the seas get from here on out, I will get everyone accepted into Kyoto University, the largest research center in Asia and the one that has produced the most Nobel laureates in Asia.

I am Saku Naruse. I will never lose.

I have a novel currently being serialized.
"Cute Zashiki-warashi Saku"
It is currently paused at #25, but I have written up to #32. The story is now reaching its midpoint, so I am taking a break. It will continue until #50, so I look forward to your continued support.
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