A good mentor teacher could completely raise a graduate's potential ceiling!
Of course, to be assigned such a mentor teacher, one first had to possess enough potential.
The original Konoha 12 Genin had all been assigned jonin as their Mentor Teachers. Most of the others could only have chunin as their Mentor Teachers.
The difference was obvious. Ordinary people barely had any presence at all; they were nothing more than background characters!
Before Soji reformed the Ministry of Education's mentor teacher system, most mentor teachers had actually been chunin. Only when an especially outstanding graduate appeared would a jonin be temporarily transferred over to serve as their mentor teacher for a while.
Thus, there were truly very few permanent jonin-level Mentor Teachers.
When Soji's team graduated, Jiraiya had been pulled over by the Third Hokage to temporarily serve as their mentor teacher.
And Jiraiya had quit after teaching only their class.
Therefore, having someone as talented as Kakashi serve as a mentor teacher long-term was quite rare.
However, after some maneuvering by Soji, Kakashi had left the Anbu several years earlier than in the original story and become an honorable mentor teacher.
What a cause for celebration!
What Soji did not know, however, was that Kakashi's standards for taking on students did not depend on individual strength. As a result, almost no students could persist under him and pass...
Soji did not say much about it. In his words, geniuses like Kakashi were free and allowed to be willful!
Just like that, ever since Soji became Minister of Education, he had completely revitalized the department and completed reforms in every aspect.
Everything had entered the proper track.
One day, Soji made a rare visit to the Ninja Academy. Just as he was about to relax and look at the students