Principal talks about our school and university

Morikami: Then, from the high school side, please tell us about the current situation of your school, the efforts you have been particularly focusing on recently, and your requests to the university and Kyoto University.

Hisaya Miyamoto (Tokyo Metropolitan Nishi High School): Our school is said to be one of the few schools that retains the goodness of the former Tokyo Metropolitan High School, where students are free to work on various things.

Currently, Japanese universities are in the midst of reforms, but I would like Kyoto University to bring out more "likeness."This is because, looking at the students at our school, it seems that university selection based on the contents will become mainstream in the future.The number of exam schools per student has already dropped dramatically, and few have taken six or seven schools as they once did. The number of people who take the exam at only two or one school is increasing, and they are not always particular about passing the exam.I'm looking for a university that I can make use of, and my eyes on the university are getting tougher.

Hisaya Miyamoto Principal (Tokyo Metropolitan Nishi High School)

Akira Takeuchi (Hibiya High School): I want you to accumulate your strength for the future academics, and to go out into society and demonstrate your strength, not for the purpose of entering university.I want to ignite my heart in class and foster a willingness to learn.Of course, it is not an easy task, so we utilize SSH and SGH Associates to carry out inquiry activities on a daily basis, and in the second year, we also conduct overseas training to see the world's most advanced research and feel its breath.I want students to be able to contribute to humankind rather than to society.

Akira Takeuchi Principal (Hibiya High School)

Hiroshi Ohno (Toyama High School): Our school is proud of "independence", and we are fully committed to having students think and study by themselves without teaching.In the metropolitan area, we were first designated as SSH, and this summer we received the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) President's Award * XNUMX.The number of research-oriented students is increasing, and they tend to choose the former imperial university over Soukei.Compared to the students who go to Hokkaido and Tohoku, the number of students who go to Kyoto University is still small, so I would like you to make more efforts to pay attention to the students.

Principal Hiroshi Ohno (Toyama High School)

Yuji Kishida (Kunitachi High School): As it is located in the Tama area, it has a strong national and public orientation.Also, it is a tradition from the time of Professor Yamagiwa that there are many students who go not only to Tokyo but also to local national and public institutions, such as 16 students going to Hokkaido University.

The school festival is especially famous, and there are more than 20 visitors every two days.The year before last, a complaint was received from the neighborhood because people lined up from XNUMX:XNUMX for a ticket for the first performance of the third grade class performance from XNUMX:XNUMX.When I tell the students about it, all the third graders try to think and solve everything by themselves, such as performing a simulation with all the third graders to make it a lottery system.I would like you to see this area in the special entrance examination.

Principal Yuji Kishida (Kunitachi High School)

Masami Hirano (Saitama Prefectural Urawa Daiichi Girls' High School): It is a public girls' high school that is rare in Japan.A society where women shine is expected, but since I arrived, I have been hoping to reform the inward side of our school.Girls up to high school are no different from co-schools in that they are fast and strong both physically and mentally, but for some reason they are more reluctant to go on to university than famous private girls' schools.All public girls' schools are traditional schools, and the tradition of seeking good wives and wise mothers remains, and I think that the teachers themselves do not give as high a goal as boys.There are still public separate schools in the three prefectures of Kita-Kantou, but it is not easy to break away from tradition because all of them have a long history.

However, it is a problem if it kills the potential of the students, so in order to break the shell, I participated in the planning of the Metropolitan Nishi High School and SSH girls' school to try to turn the students' eyes to the outside. Six schools meet at Ochanomizu University twice a year to exchange information and receive guidance from graduate students.I thought that windows and gates were strange.

Principal Masami Hirano (Saitama Prefectural Urawa Daiichi Girls' High School)

Yamagiwa: Thank you.

Takeshi Sugiyama (Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School): At our school, 2000 people visited the school festival last weekend.At the boys' school, all the events are held in the rain.In the strong walking competition, walk 50km within XNUMX hours.The school motto is to challenge the difficult task.The world is all about difficult tasks, so in high school, my motto is to train tough students by training their minds and bodies and overcoming them. With the designation of SGH, he actively goes abroad and encourages him to meet diverse and different people.In the future, the human being who supports somewhere in the world, it may be the universe like Koichi Wakata, a graduate, but when a trouble occurs, it is said that "there is no human being to replace you". I want you to be human.

A graduate who went to Kyoto University said, "I thought I was studying liberal arts when I was in high school, but when I come to Kyoto University, the dimension is different." He was enthusiastic about it.Since Kyoto University is attractive for its spaciousness, I would like you to continue to enhance traditional liberal arts education and teach us how to incorporate diversity into high school education and university education.

Principal Takeshi Sugiyama (Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School)