英語検定ライティング準１級（第245回）

古典「英語よりも難解だと思っていた話」

学習塾で文系の生徒と話すと英語や歴史などの語彙を暗記して何とか合格したいと言う。努力科目というものだ。反対に理系の生徒と話すと覚えることが少なくて済む方が向いていると。
He sometimes has an opportunity to gain a conversation with a student in the humanities course, who wants to accept a reception letter from his or her desirable university by memorizing various kinds of vocabularies English or historic subjects contain, which requires him or her to memorize numerous technical terms.
On the other hand, a student in the STEM course dislikes to memorize a tremendous number of vocabularies, instead, he or she wants to solve numerous questions with the small number of formulations, an article says.

２年前に影響力のあるタレントが古典は実用性がないので廃止するべきだと言ってた。理系の生徒に聞くと古典が嫌だから文系に進まなかったと言う。難解な努力科目はやる気を奪う。
About a few years ago, an influential talent suggested that ancient Japanese language should be abandoned because they seemed useless and impractical to the modern society on the popular TV program, he says.
Not a few students in the STEM course avoided entering the humanities counterpart because they didn’t figure out any purposes to learn something too ancient.
Something meaningless robs us of our aggressivenesses.

職場で高校生と話すと学校は友情を育む場所かつ昼寝して夜の受験勉強に備える時間だと。世間一般では大きい声で言えないが合理的だ。公務員教師の適当な授業に付き合わなくて良い。
When he have a conversation with high school students in his workplace, they tend to consider their school as the place where they should cherish their friendship and gain enough sound sleep, which seems positive in the logical viewpoint, although we cannot share this way of thinking with one another in front of large audiences.
They don’t have any necessities to meet something trivial done by the civil servant teachers, he assumes.

苦手科目を押し付けるのは自信を奪うためだ。カルト集団の典型だ。得意科目がより得意になるサポートをするのが予備校だ。そもそも教育とは才能を引っ張り出すという意味なのだ。
When such servants impose disgusting subjects on their students, they have various kinds of malicious intentions to rob them of their precious confidence, which is similar to something vicious a typical cult leader utilizes.
A prep school enables the students with strong subjects to be evaluated highly with their superior skills, in the first place, education has played an important role to pull out their inner talents from their brain, an article says.