Chapter 65 Teaching Manoeuvres
Jane chatted with Henry for a while, racked her brains, and finally knew how to describe Henry's physical level-a student who couldn't even understand the catalog.
Jane was easygoing, and said immediately, "Okay, then look at this question."
She gave him a question at random, and Henry looked down for a few seconds as if Jane wrote it in Morse code. In the end, he felt like losing face and said irritably, "I don't know."
Jane turned a few pages of the book, pointed to a question in it, and said, "That's the first exercise."
Henry said, "I am not the type of doing exercises."
Jane said, "It's okay if you can directly calculate the answer in your head. It's just that you can't omit the process of how to get the answer in the exam, or you can't get the score. "
She made it clear to provoke him. Henry looked unhappy and stared at her.
Jane said, "Learn mathematics, physics, and chemistry well, and you are not afraid to travel around the world. You haven't experienced the joy of knowledge."
Henry snorted, "Come on, whoever loves to drown in the ocean of knowledge learns. Such words may still work to deceive a three-year-old child, or to deceive Justin."
Jane said, "If you don't suffer from studying now, you will have to suffer from life in the future."
Henry said, "Study is taking the initiative to endure hardship. If you don't study, you won't suffer, but life is different. Suffering will also come to you, even if you just lie there."
Jane's eyes gleamed with appreciation and surprise. "You look like you have a lot of life experience, though young."
Henry didn't care at all and even wanted to pick up the guitar and play a song to express his depression.
Jane said, "Actually, you're right. In all fairness, I can't refute what you said. If there is a way, few people really like to study. I finally got through the hardships of study, and now I still have to suffer the hardships of life."
Henry asked, "What did life do to you?"
Jane answered, "I was introduced to your brother by Edward, and your brother must have promised your mother how good I was. He must have said since I can teach Justin well, I must have taught you well, but you are really hard to be fooled at your age. I can't beat or scold you, and even can't use routines. To be honest, I'm thinking of quitting the job."
She looked down at the nearly new textbook and sighed helplessly.
Henry hesitated for a moment, "You give up without trying?"
Jane sighed, "People can't be so selfish. They can't ask others to be tolerant and cooperate in order to keep their jobs. I understand you really don't want to learn. Neither do I. I would feel sick when opening the book and want to sleep when doing exercises. Whoever says a few more words in my ear, I feel like my head is gonna explode..."
After hearing this, the nanny who was hiding outside the door immediately ran back to the master bedroom to tell Rachel.
Leaning on his chair, Henry said, "It's too annoying to be a student. I wish I could be twenty-five after waking up."
Jane said, "Adults have the pains of adults. The pessimistic thinking is that people are destined to suffer hardship in this life. The optimistic thinking is that there are always people who suffer more than you and me."
Henry looked at Jane. "Does your current suffering all come from work?"
Jane thought about it seriously. "Kind of."
Henry said, "If you are dismissed by a client, will the company dock your salary?"
Jane said, "Our company will directly fire me if I get certain dismissals."
Henry was silent for a moment, then suddenly straightened up and put his arms on the table. He opened the book and said, "Come on, it's the same for everyone else. If I don't study, someone will suffer."
Jane was overjoyed. As expected, Henry was just like Justin, both seemingly cold and truly warm-hearted. She could do it in another way.
In the master bedroom, Rachel looked displeased and her face darkened after listening to the nanny's words. She hired Jane to help Henry make progress, but Jane instilled negative thoughts into Henry instead.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt inappropriate. She got up and walked to Henry's room. The door of Henry's room was not closed. Before she got to the door, she heard her son's voice which sounded familiar, but he was saying something she was very unfamiliar with. Rachel stopped and couldn't believe that Henry was discussing homework with Jane. She wondered whether those words she heard unfamiliar were physical terms.
Standing there and listening quietly for a long time, Rachel couldn't describe the feeling in her heart at this moment, as if she saw something impossible with her own eyes.
Jane was not a person cramming for the exams, and she was used to seeing the pain of cramming, so she would not use boring methods to make students disgusted.
Henry had been in high school for more than half a year, but he didn't seem to have learned physics. Jane's education method was to praise him. Whenever he said something right, she would give him an 'awesome' look, which made Henry feel he may be a genius, and his motivation had been triggered all of a sudden.
An hour and a half passed quickly, Rachel had been listening in the living room. Jane was really teaching, and Henry was really studying.
Rachel's excitement was beyond words. She looked at the time many times and finally couldn't help knocking on Henry's door.
Henry spun the pen with his right hand and frowned at the exercise. Jane raised her head when hearing the sound. Rachel walked in with a smile, and asked "Still studying?"
Jane nodded, but Henry didn't look at her.
Rachel glanced at the paper on the table, on which were all letters and formulas. She asked with a bigger smile, "Do you need anything?"
Before Jane could speak, Henry said with a frown, "Can you not disturb our class?"
Rachel patted him on the shoulder and said indulgently, "It's time for a class. You've been sitting for so long, get up to walk around and eat something, otherwise, your brain would stop working."
Henry shrugged his left shoulder and said without raising his head, "You're affecting my thinking, get out. I want to have two classes today!"
Rachel heard Henry say to play more games, play for two more hours, and eat two more bowls of rice and never heard of him asking for two classes. It was usually hard for him to take one class in the past.
Overjoyed Rachel walked out, saying okay. During the second class, Vincent called and Rachel went to the master bedroom to pick it up.
Vincent asked, "Is the class over?"
Rachel said with satisfaction, "He's taking the second class."
Vincent was also surprised, "Have you discussed it with him?"
Rachel said, "It was he who asked for it."
Vincent smiled, "Whew, I can't believe it. Henry has grown up."
Rachel couldn't contain her happiness on the other end of the phone. Vincent said, "I told you this tutor is very good. Edward recommended her. She must have some abilities."
Rachel didn't praise or criticize her, "It's too early to say these. Let's wait and see Henry's grades."
Vincent said, "When will the second class end? I'll come back to pick him up."
"Where are you going to take him?"
"Oh dear, is it possible that I take him out and sell him? He behaves so well, so I invite him out to dinner."
After sitting for two and a half hours, Henry couldn't sit still in the first half of the second class. Jane saw that he couldn't concentrate, and told him to stand up and memorize the formula as he walked.
Henry had never tried the taste of studying hard. Doing exercises was like leveling up and fighting monsters. Not memorizing the formula was equivalent to not knowing the ultimate skills.
After two classes, Vincent also arrived. The three of them went out and entered the elevator together. He said, "Miss Cooper, how about having dinner together tonight?"
Jane immediately declined. Vincent smiled, "Edward will also come, and Justin."