Nathan Fisher has been in some trouble lately.
As the principal of Stanion Magic Academy, he has lost a lot of hair, but he is facing more and more problems.
This magic academy named after the legendary mage Lord Lanchester Stanion is affiliated with Mercury Scale. Nathan himself is also a member of Mercury Scale, and his teacher is Frederick Demetri.
As a fourth-ring mage, Nathan is actually one of the weaker students among Lord Dmitri's students. Although the teacher gave him enough guidance, due to various reasons, he has never been able to advance. So far, he has not been able to advance. It's been ten years.
So Nathan gradually gave up the idea of promotion and decided to use his remaining energy, so he came to Stanion Magic Academy and became the principal here.
However, perhaps Nathan's original abilities were insufficient. In the past few years when he was the principal, the school's rating has gradually declined. After last year's assessment, the original five-level school fell to seven-level, leaving Nathan in Mercury. The scales were repeatedly ridiculed internally, and at gatherings of principals of various magic schools.
Gradually, the nickname "useless Nathan" spread, making him very embarrassed.
On this day, Nathan sat in his office, looking at the transcript of the mock exam that had just ended, and sighed.
Fifty-two people from Stanion Magic Academy participated in this mock exam, but less than ten people passed the test, and the passing rate was not even 20%!
You know, the students at Stanion Magic Academy are not just ordinary people picked up from anywhere. They are almost all children of various mage families and descendants of noble nobles. Judging from their education and bloodline, they should be first-class. One is correct.
However, according to Nathan's survey, it is precisely because of this composition of students that the school's enrollment rate has been sluggish.
The children of the nobility are not here to study magic seriously at all. All they need is socialization and connections. The aristocratic education they have received since childhood did not make it easier for them to learn magic, and very few can be promoted.
Although the children of mages are quite talented, most of them do not obey the guidance of their teachers. Nathan himself is not as good as the parents of many of them, and naturally he does not have the confidence to ask these students to work hard.
More importantly, a trend of despising students with good grades has gradually emerged in the school. Students who rank at the top of each test are given not flowers and applause, but ridicule and ridicule. Many students call them "nerds."
This was not how students looked when Nathan was an apprentice!
This class of students is really bad.
Sighing again, Nathan was about to make a pot of coffee when, outside the window, an owl flew over, seemingly holding something in its talons.
Nathan saw the black and white owl wandering towards his office, and then, with a bang, it hit the clean glass.
"This must hurt."
Nathan curled his lips, opened the window, lifted the bobbing owl into the house, and took off the envelope from its talons.
This owl was known to Nathan. It was an old owl used exclusively by the High Council. It had been in service for nearly ten years. Usually only the high-ranking mages would use it to convey messages.
Sure enough, the sender of this heart was Nathan's teacher, Frederick Dmitry.
Lord Dmitry first expressed his condolences to Nathan, and then told him that he recently learned that the level of education at Stanion Magic Academy has declined significantly, and he also heard some reasons why this is the case.
Seeing this, Nathan's heart skipped a beat. Finally, would even his teacher abandon him
Nathan's hands were shaking a little, but his strong willpower made him choose to continue reading.
"... I would like to introduce you to a new person, Rainer Ingle. He is very effective in managing Crescent Academy. You can exchange letters with him. Moreover, he has also developed a set of teaching aids. , I took a few glances and it felt good, so I decided to use your school as a pilot. You are fully responsible for trying to increase the advancement rate in this magic exam."
"Teacher, teacher, he didn't forget me?"
Nathan's panic at this time completely turned into emotion. He thought that he had disappointed Lord Dmitri long ago, but he didn't expect that his teacher was still worried about his job.
Seeing the name of Reiner Ingle, Nathan smiled even more. No one in Mercury Scale didn't know the name of Reiner Ingle. This rising star will definitely become a high-level mage in the future. A student with a bright future, now the teacher asked him to find Reiner. This is obviously paving the way for his future!
"Teacher, thank you so much!"
Nathan burst into tears of gratitude, immediately picked up the pen and wrote a letter to that Rainer Ingle.
Thanks to Mr. Dmitry's matchmaking, the other party's reply was very fast. Two days later, Nathan received a package including "Complete Solutions to Iain Gray's Textbooks", "Ten Years of Magic Test", and "Five Years of Tests, Three Years of Simulation" Including a series of teaching aids sample books, Reiner introduced his school running experience in detail in the letter, and said that if Nathan wanted to purchase these teaching aids, he could give a 20% discount.
After looking for a teacher to read it carefully, Nathan found that compilation of these teaching aids was actually not difficult and the knowledge required was not high. However, this systematic classification method was very good and allowed students to build a knowledge tree in their brains. Convenient for memory review.
"... Morning self-study and evening self-study, in-class tests, weekly tests, monthly tests, study groups... Uh, what is this recess exercise?"
Nathan found that Reiner Ingle had too many ideas in his mind, but all the ideas boiled down to one sentence: do the questions.
"If you don't do well in the exam, you just don't do enough in normal times!"
"Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent to you."
"The examination room is a battlefield, and only those who go all out can survive."
Reiner's letter repeatedly emphasized the importance of doing questions, and his teaching aids also focused on a large number of questions focusing on knowledge points. The weight of them shocked even Nathan, who was used to free-range education.
If Reiner's strategy is really implemented, those students will definitely have strong feelings of resistance, and they will find their parents to put pressure. By then, Nathan may not be able to persist. In the past few times, he thought He wanted to slightly strengthen students' learning, but met with huge opposition, and ultimately nothing was done. He was worried that history would repeat itself this time.
Nathan passed this worry to his teacher. In the past, he always thought that Lord Dmitry didn't care about his situation, so he never bothered him with these trivial things. But now, since the teacher asked him If the school is run well, Nathan will naturally have more confidence.
Lord Dmitri's reply came in the evening, with the same old owl and the same steady handwriting, but the content was very simple, with only one sentence.
"If anyone is dissatisfied, let them come to me directly."