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「旧帝・国立大学医学部」受験対策講座（２）

　If you haven’t cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.  (Sophia Loren)

   塾・予備校業界では「教師は良い教師になれない」「東大卒の人は良い講師になれない」という採用基準がある。学校の先生は教え方がヘタでもクビにならない。競争による淘汰がないから削り合っている塾講師にはかなわない。東大卒の人は頭が良すぎて苦い屈辱感を感じたことが少ないため生徒の気持ちが分からない。

　生徒の支持される講師になるためには、ある程度の賢さと、地べたを這いずり回る苦しさのため悔し涙を流した人でないとダメだ。私は大規模予備校で４０人中２番人気だった（生徒アンケート）。名古屋大学卒で東大や京大卒ではない。また、英検１級は一発合格ではなく３回受けた。５０代で高校生に混じって京大を７回受けるのは恥ずかしかった。

　カッコつけてるうちは真剣とは言わない。一人になった時、問題集を壁に叩きつけたり、屈辱的な点数のテストを破り捨てたりした経験がない人は見込みがないと思う。

 In the cram/preparatory school industry, there is a hiring standard that says "teachers cannot be good teachers" and "those who graduated from Tokyo University cannot be good instructors. School teachers are not fired even if they teach badly. They are no match for cram school teachers who are grinding each other out because there is no selection through competition. Those who graduated from Tokyo University are too smart to understand the feelings of students because they have rarely felt bitter humiliation.

　To be an instructor who is supported by students, you need to be smart to a certain degree and someone who has cried tears of frustration due to the pain of crawling on the ground. I was the second most popular out of 40 students at a large prep school (student survey). I graduated from Nagoya University, not Tokyo University or Kyoto University. I also took Eiken Level 1 three times instead of passing it in one try. it was embarrassing to be in my 50s and take Kyoto University seven times among high school students.

　I wouldn't say I was serious while I was being cool. If you have never slammed a problem book against the wall or ripped up a test with a humiliating score when you were alone, you have no chance.