As expected, children who can teach themselves will not be weakly talented. None of the people sent in 727 had red-level talent; at worst, they had a faint orange light, close to yellow light, and there were a few people with bright yellow light.
There was even a child who could see the light on the talent stone the night before. After a long sleep and waking up, he found that all three magic stones were dim. Faced with such a situation, she was only seven or eight years old and even cried anxiously. This situation even alarmed the great magician who lived in the academy. But when Juan looked at the tearful little girl, he just felt ridiculous.
The association's standard distribution of magic prop talent stones to official magicians can only test talents up to the yellow level. Above this level, such low-level talent stone props will not show any results. So in the girl's case, it can only be that her talent is so high that low-level talent stones are not enough to use.
Although Tripwood Magician had discussed with the relevant teachers in the academy, he tried to downplay the children's talents and treated them equally. But children with talents above the yellow level will be popular wherever they go. Even I would not reject raising such a child myself.
However, it has only been a short time, it has only been two or three months since the academy was founded, and already such a gifted child has appeared. If time stretched out longer, would there be more amazing geniuses emerging? However, this also illustrates from the side how many talented children have been missed in the magician world according to the old way of selecting talents.
After all, Juan Javier couldn't stop his curiosity. He asked a girl named Charlotte to hand over the talent stone to the next child scheduled to be tested. At the same time, he brought the cyan high-grade talent stone bracelet that he owned to the girl's hand.
It is clear that this is an item with the same function, but it belongs to him, a great magician, and is more advanced and expensive, rather than the public property of the academy, so it must be treated with caution.
He said it in a slightly stern tone because he didn't want these children to regard using this bracelet as normal. Otherwise, with the same effect, who would be willing to carry a talent stone all day long. Furthermore, watching a half-grown child carrying a big rock on his back for a whole day was honestly quite emotional for Juan.
Then the next day, looking at the pure cyan light on the bracelet, Juan Javier was speechless. Charlotte, on the other hand, hid behind her sister Wendy, timidly looking at the handsome and handsome magician.
"Well, don't worry, kid, your magic talent is very good. But you have to study hard to achieve success on the road of magic."
This was a very official statement after the discussion between the three magicians. But Juan just shouted in his heart, your mother's talent is even better than mine, it's not just good. Fortunately, learning magic is not just about talent. Clear thinking and a flexible brain are also the key to learning magic well or poorly.
At the afternoon faculty meeting of the college, amid the aroma of coffee, and just after finishing today’s discussion on the calculator project, Juan Javier mentioned Charlotte, who was extremely talented. In this regard, Lin could only say regretfully: "It's so pitiful."
"Poor? A child with great talent?" Juan Javier felt like he couldn't keep up with someone's thoughts.
"Yeah, can't you be pitiful?" Lin shrugged and said, "You obviously have such a good talent, but you end up in this place."
...Hmm, this place? What do you think of the academy you run? It’s just...it seems like that’s right. Juan said tentatively: "You have such an outstanding child, aren't you going to cultivate her well?"
"No, just follow the same standards as everyone else."
"This is a very rare child! If you treat her in this way, it is simply a waste of her talent. At least she should be given a longer time to use the meditation room."
Seeing the great magician so excited, Lin knew that if he didn't give any explanation, he might not be able to pass this level. Even if this person stays in the future, he will still have a grudge against him.
As for the time in the meditation room, because there are so many children, the resources available are limited. For the sake of control, children who can use less than twenty minutes have nothing to say, and those who can exceed this time are restricted to finish a round of meditation within twenty minutes. Allow every hour of free and meditative time for the children, and at least three of them.
But giving the green light to a child with extraordinary talent?
Correcting his sitting posture, Lin said seriously: "You two, please listen to me. The way the academy teaches magic apprentices is completely different from the past practice. You can agree on this."
This is something anyone with long eyes can see. Comparing it with the apprenticeship life he has experienced, it is clear what the difference is. So both of them nodded.
"Compared with traditional education methods, it is actually them who spend a lot of time with those children now, rather than us as teachers, a group of formal magicians. This is true, right."
The two nodded again.
"Then please imagine that you are a member of this group of children. Of course, the part about being trained like a dog will be ignored for now. Let's just say that if your talent is very good, the teachers at the college will favor you. If you add, what will happen? Will other children be envious or jealous? Seeing that I get less resources than you, my progress is slower than you, and my learning effect is not as good as yours. When When this jealousy accumulates to a certain level, what will happen?"
"This..." It was difficult for two magicians without student experience to imagine such a thing, but Lin's question was also thought-provoking.
"Hate is the easiest emotion to arouse people's emotions. So I intentionally unified their emotions and differentiated them from those apprentices who can be taught by the magician personally. Of course, I think the most important hatred of the children is, Or maybe the fear is focused on me and Old John. But even so, I don’t want to cause complete hatred and confrontation. I just want to give the children a reason, a feeling of common hatred, so that they can stand on the same side. Just be on the front line. But if there is a person today who can get most of the care, most of the resources, and indeed has made significant progress. This is like changing the target of hatred from external to internal, then he becomes the one who is resented Some of the target’s children can survive. Especially those children under ten years old.”
"This..." Juan Javier made his final struggle and said, "At times like this, we, the teachers, are the ones who come forward to protect the talented children. This is how I got through."
"The one who spends the longest time with the children is each other. How can a teacher protect him? Keep that child with him and be inseparable? Of course, Mr. Javier is lucky to have such care from President Carlos. Things. But how many apprentices were studying with President Carlos at that time, and how many apprentices are there in the academy now? As a teacher, can you, as a teacher, with such a number of people, give special gifts to those with extremely high talents? At the same time, it does not reduce the opportunity for others to receive magic education. In other words, we should give up other people and focus on cultivating 'one' child."
"This..." Even the great magician was speechless. But from this aspect, we can also get a glimpse of the attitude of this great magician. If you completely believe in elite education, you may not hesitate to say: You should give up other people, concentrate your resources, and do your best to cultivate one person.
However, Juan Javier could not say such words plausibly, which shows that he also hopes to bring magic education to everyone as much as possible, and then promote magic.
Lin guessed the thoughts of the great magician and said: "After all, those children live in a group. If there is not a good system, the elite can stand out and receive more and higher education. Then the best solution The method is to let them live the same life, achieve similar results, and receive the same care. Don't treat them differently. Children are very sensitive. They can tell at a glance who treats them well and who treats them poorly. Likewise. Who is living better and who is living worse will also become the reason for them to compare with each other. Don't let these become excuses for them to oppose each other."
What Lin did not continue to say was that regarding campus bullying, it is a problem that is difficult to solve even in the 21st century. Regarding the establishment of college atmosphere, Lin could not ruin the previous efforts casually.
In addition, these children are not divided into classes according to their age. The older children and the younger children are all in the same class. There are adults like Lenny, and there are also people like Kish and Charlotte who are obviously underage and still childish. If those older kids bully the little guys with the help of their arm muscles, who can keep an eye on them?
Therefore, Lin was more worried about the atmosphere on campus than about magic education. Fortunately, at this stage, the overall atmosphere seems to be good. Although it has not reached the level of mutual help, complementarity, solidarity and mutual love, at least based on current observations, no one has been excluded or bullied.
At this point in Lin's explanation, the two magicians were speechless. They have no experience in college life and cannot judge many things. However, someone's arrangements and instructions were reasonable and sounded like the best way to live in the academy. He had no choice but to agree to Lin's rules and continue to pretend to be confused as before.
At night, Juan Javier had just returned to the academy from his romantic place. He drank more wine today and is now sitting by the window sill blowing the cool breeze. There was still a hint of chill in the early spring night, which stimulated his alcohol-sedated head and made him sober up a little.
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