Excerpts from Honobu Yonezawa's "hyouka" series outside story "Estimating the Distance Between Us"

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"Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat to give me candy."

Ohinata frowned.

"Let's see, Zhou Enlai"

"It's Li Teng-hui"

Ihara speaks from the side.

"It wasn't Chiang Kai-shek, was it?"

Hearing the exchange, Chitanda got a twitchy look that made her laugh unreasonably.

"Um, it's, uh, you know, Ho Chi Minh."

Somehow she's trying to blur. I did something wrong for her. Incidentally, I had really forgotten about it, but as we were talking, I remembered it. This is To Kohei.

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My second daughter, a senior in high school, had no idea about the historical figures featured in the above story. I went out of the blue, to be honest.

Ebata: "Hey, the characters in Hyouka are all 2nd year high school students.

Second daughter: "The characters in "Hyouka" are fiction. No high school student has that kind of knowledge on a daily basis.

Ebata: "I could have answered all of those questions back then!

Second daughter: "That's because you had biased knowledge.

Ebata: "It's not like that. Even your mom can answer that question properly.

And when I mentioned the subject to my wife, she said

Wife: "Of course, I know all those names. I just forgot who and what they did.

Ebata: "It's "I cannot answer".

In addition, the second daughter interrupted me.

Second daughter: "Well, Dad, just because I knew the person's name, doesn't make it any less important.

Ebata: "Somehow, I feel like I'm in deep serious if you don't know that much about it.

Second daughter: "That's what you think. It's far worse in our world to not know the contents of the "cake recipe". Dad, can you argue about sweets?"

Ebata: "I can't argue it at all"

Second daughter: "There's more utility and usefulness in a cake recipe than in a historical figure, and something useful would be the right thing to do.

Ebata: "Certainly, I think I've been arguing that

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Any teacher says, "It's the subject I am teaching that's important."

It can also be described as "petty self-defense" to protect the teachers' sense of existence and dignity.

In fact, history teachers keep saying "history is important," but let's be clear "Whoever the pharaohs of ancient Egypt were, whether their country perished or not, what does it matter?

In short, it's the same story as my wife's famous quote, "It doesn't matter what color the litmus test paper is.

If you want usefulness in knowledge, a "profit-recovery model based on actual learning" is the only correct answer.

Eldest: "It's violence to argue what you know as if it's the world's standard, isn't it?

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I was thinking about this story...

"Am I wrong?

For a while, I sank into a deep darkness of skepticism.