FRONTIER SPIRIT BE OUR GUIDEA Tale of Two Cities

Education and theEndlessly Shifting
Global Context

Student in the Integrated Six-Year Program

T his being the first book bylord Marquis St . Evremonde.

ever read, I used an English

who spent 18 years in prison.

C h a r l e s D i c ke n s t h a t I h a v eversion written at a level suit-able for intermediate students
of English. I read it quickly tothe end with great interest. A

Tale of Two Ci t ie s is ab ou t aCharles is kind to Dr. Manette,picts the complicated societies
and relationships that existed
at a time when social discrimination of a kind that is unimaginable rules peoples lives, andwhen common folk, awakened

by ideas of freedom, rise up in

revolution and try to kill all thenobles.

C har le s Dar nay is a nephew
and heir of the French feudal

Charles was sent to the guillotine for execution anyway.

Sydney Carton is an Englishman who looks just likeCharles, and he is secretly

in love with Lucie. While

Charles is in prison, Sydney
puts him to sleep with drugs

and arranges for him to es-cape to England with hisfamily. Substituting himself

in place of Charles, Sydney

goes to the guillotine for exe c u t i o n . M o m e n t s b e fo r edying, he questions whether
or not he has been a goodp e r s o n , a n d p rays fo r t h esafet y and happiness of
C h a r l e s a n d L u c i e . At t h eend, he smiles and feels that
he can at last rest.

computer and the Internet are

the daughter of Dr. Manet te,

Can we expect to confront

The famous Protestant Refor-and they marry.

ran over and killed a child of

end of the 18th century. It de-perhaps the most significant in-novations since the invention ofscheduled execution by guilloRevolution (1775~1792) at thew hich our li ve s w ill re t ur n to

more normal times? Or, on theand declares his love to Lucie,

Th e M a rq u i s S t . Ev re m o n d etine at the time of the French

Th e w o r l d i s s h r ink in g . T h eCharles meets various people

French nobleman and the people around him prior to his［ ザ・フロンティア・タイムズ ］

Is the world passing through aperiod of endless crises, after

was t raveling in a coach andG a s p a r d , a c o m m o n e r. T h ecommon people were outraged.

Gaspard snuck into t he Mar-quis’ castle and stabbed him in

the chest with a sword while hes l e p t . T h e revo l u t i o n b e g a n ,and the ordinary people started to murder all of the aristocrats. Charles was caught up inother hand, is this normalcy ?

countless crises for the fore seeable future?

A fter World War II, one commentator noted that 20th cen-

tur y people were rooted in an

at any time since the collapse

young woman who recently

graduated from our school.

I think that Julia’s review oft he famous Dickens’ novel
was accurate and extremely
well written. I would like tohave seen her discuss more
explicitly the themes of res-urrection and self-sacrificethat are at the core of thenovel. The main character’s
deat h presages a new age

fo r Fra n ce w h e n fre e d o m ,liberty and equality will takepre ce dence over pr i v ile ge

and arrogance. Some havesaid that the protagonist is a
Jesus figure.

The Yagi family members

have been impor tant allies

to o u r s c h o o l . A l l fo u r o f
the children in the clan havestudied here. Mr. Yagi, thefather of these amazingchildren, has always helpedu s o u t a t o u r s c h o o l . We

meshed—religion, politics, culfirst time in world history, we hu-Peter Drucker, the managementbound to one another forever.

t h a t w e a r e a s i n g l e e n t i t y,scholar, said that “no one born

No man or woman is an island.

tur y has ever known any thingG lobalization is forcing the col-dations, overturning its values

and religious boundaries. Ques-

and toppling its idols.”

short review by Julia Yagi, ayears?

man beings are becoming aware

people still considered all aris-

I was impressed by thiswe have experienced in recentof the middle ages.

but a world uprooting its foun-Comment from the Headmasterfollow these new inventions thatture and economics. For theManette and another character,tocrats to be their enemy, so

the printing press. What will

been more anxiety-ridden thanafter the turn of the 20th cen-Gabelle. However, the ordinary

mation followed the invention of

E ve r y t h i n g h a s b e c o m e e n -the frenzy, but he was exoner-a te d by t h e te s t i m o ny of D r.

writing thousands of years ago.

endemic emptiness. He said
that our time after the war has

lapse of national, racial, ethnic
tions of identity naturally arise.

“Who am I?” “To what group do

I owe allegiance?” “What does

I n this age of incredible mobility

a wor ld w here p e ople are in -agery, what can educators do torace and ethnicity even mean inand the onslaught of visual im-

creasingly inter-marrying?”

help fragile children achieve a

Young people these days aresense of confidence, a pleasuresense of time and space, agetting more information fromin inhabiting this brave newof their years of classroom in-need to know when there is soavailable at the click of a com-enough years to make a dent inwatching television than from all

struction. Knowledge is now

puter button. Commercial advertising is a primary source ofworld? What do our studentsmuch to be known and not
the process of acquiring it? Our

students need self-understand-value formation. In this context,ing, self-control and self-direc-

question. “What is education?”

mation projectiles falling out ofT he traditional role of educa-

guide them to a safe spacepeople acquire a sense of root-

lives and get on the right path?

question for educators is star-

We are living through a period

from computer link to computer

dent. We have to think carefully

we have to ask a foundationaltion has been to help young

edness in time and place. Thetling. As young people jump

link, how can they acquire thosethe sky at meteoric rates, do wewhere they can examine theirof human history without prece-about how to lead our children

into the future in such a way thatmitted through art and intimate

ful and psychologically healthy.

human interaction in the traditional classroom?

will ensure that they are success-This is a paradigm shift. We haveto rise to the challenge.

closely with this exceptionalfamily.

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writ ten a high- qualit y book

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名古屋国際中学校・高等学校
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Congratulations to the 20th anniversary of Nagoya International Junior and Senior High School.

It is a great honour for me to extend our best wishes to your institution on behalf of many of
us at the University of Alberta, who have had the privilege to work closely with your academic

team on the intensive English language training program for your students since 2006. The “FrontierSpirit” established by Dr. Yuichi Kurimoto, the first Japanese national to graduate from the University ofAlberta, bears the foundation of our long standing academic tie between our two institutions.

We are excited that you will soon be launching the world recognized International Baccalaureate

curriculum in 2015. We are very proud of your strategic academic pursuit as we have learned from

Head Master George Pruitt that this new IB program will be the first English-only school for young
Japanese nationals in the Nagoya Region.

next week.
Sincerely,Katy Campbell, PhD
Dean

her and am rooting for her as
she proceeds to university.

［ Congratulations to the 20th Anniversary ］

We wish you continuing success. My best wishes to the opening ceremony for your new students

a re p ro u d to h ave w o r ke d

In all, I think that Julia has

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