The big man has a living father

Chapter 107 New School ( words updated)
At present, there is only one article discussing this part, that is, Zhao Guo’s "Nutrition Theory", and it is not complete.

But the "Children's Six-Lesson Combined Edition" calls this part science.

Teachers have not done any research on this aspect; they mainly study "Statistics" and "Lesson Plans".

They will record the methods they try and find helpful in stimulating students to improve their literacy, share them with others, and then cross-test them.

By putting these statistical reports together, we can directly draw conclusions about which methods are good and which are bad. Whether good or bad depends on the individual.

After reaching the conclusion, they would write lesson plans before work every day, planning how many words and content to teach all students, how to make them learn quickly, and what methods to use.

So, these one hundred people quickly supplemented the content of the "Children's Six-Lesson Combined Edition".

To be precise, they used the blank spaces left in Huo Hai's book to fill in the necessary parts.

Some people even summarized the stick figures.

At the same time, these people are also responsible for teaching simplified Chinese to people in the Academy of Sciences.

Many people in the Academy of Sciences can read and learn simplified Chinese very quickly.

The rest are not slow either.

After finishing the course, people from the Academy of Sciences mainly learned how to write reports and essays.

Because they feel that these two types of questions are very suitable for recording research and presenting research results.

Now two months have passed, and both in the military and at the Academy of Sciences, there are still a large number of people who are still unqualified and have not reached the standard for completing elementary education.

However, they have already learned the method, and what they need is time.
But, among them, a large number of people have learned it!
Of these 70,000 people, less than 10,000 lived in Chang'an County, and the rest lived in Lingyi and some places farther away from Chang'an.

But the thousands of people living in Chang'an County are studying and teaching their children at the same time.

Of course, they hope that their children can learn to read from an early age, rather than waiting until they are old like themselves to learn.

Although adults have higher intelligence and better logic, sometimes they just don’t have enough energy and their memory is not good enough.

Therefore, when they educate their children, they will also encounter some difficulties that are different from their own learning.

Children don’t learn as fast as I do.

So they also communicated with the 1,100 teachers who taught them, and reported many problems related to children's learning.

Then a hundred top teachers discussed countermeasures, researched methods, and explained the methods to them.

For this kind of problem, they directly chose to experiment!
Because of the cooperation with the Academy of Sciences, this form of experiment was quickly recognized by them.

With such a large sample, the experimental data can be obtained very quickly.

As a result, the "Children's Six-Lesson Combined Edition" was supplemented too quickly and the book became thicker and thicker.

They all ran to ask Huo Hai what the six lessons for children were.

Huo Haicai told them that the six subjects for children are "Chinese", "Morality", "Mathematics", "Painting", "Music" and "Science".

Although the development of science is indeed important, Huo Hai put science at the end in the study of "Six Lessons for Children".

Chinese is the foundation of all learning and a basic tool, so it is placed first.

Mathematics is the foundation of scientific learning and research. It is the second basic tool and is placed second.

The content of morality is directly extracted from the existing content of Confucianism.

Plus some modern translations, and extended content.

It was impossible for Huo Hai to study a new set of ethics that conformed to the logic of imperial rule. If he did that, he would be doomed, so he directly threw things from Confucianism, Legalism, and Huang Lao into this part. Huo Hai did not choose any of them, but just threw in anything that taught how to be a human being.

Then came painting and music.

The reason why these two are ranked higher than science is that children who study the "Six-Lesson Combined Edition" are not yet at the level of studying and understanding science.

Painting and music can help them remember.

For example, it is easy for adults to remember the two words "chicken" and "duck", but it is too difficult for children to remember them.

But if you draw a chicken, write the word "chicken", and then mark the pinyin, then below this content is a song about chickens.

This makes it easy to remember the word.

Adults study in order to make money, to work, to gain social status, and to move up in career. They are strongly motivated to study.

The 70,000 soldiers all understood that if they could not read, they could not become officers. Even if they won the next war, they would still be soldiers for life.

But after learning to read, you can improve.

Therefore, the sergeants, with their mature brains, learn very quickly.

But if you tell children that they can make a lot of money or become an official after studying, they don’t understand the importance of this at all.

So, fun is the way out.

For humans, music and painting are arts that are naturally understandable.

Therefore, among the six lessons, painting and music are ranked before "Science".

After Huo Hai pointed out the complete framework, the one hundred teachers had something to do.

What kind of characters need to be taught with the help of music, and what kind of characters need to be taught with the help of paintings.

What scientific knowledge developed by the Academy of Sciences do children need to learn?

Things that are too complicated, such as the carbon steel ratio, metal distillation method, and bacterial culture dishes, are definitely not in this category.

But if it’s more basic, and children can experiment with it, then you can put it in.

What is pinhole imaging and what is the principle of refraction.

Two months later, these 100 smart men selected from the best of the 70,000 soldiers were truly amazing.

A large part of Huo Hai's "Six Lessons for Children" was completed to form the first printable version.

These one hundred smart people will definitely be successful no matter what they do.

However, there is a lack of education now, so Huo Hai suggested that they become professional teachers.

To be precise, to become one hundred principals.

Because of the special circumstances of the times, the one hundred people were divided into four parts.

Thirty principals of primary schools, responsible for educating children. Thirty principals of vocational schools, responsible for educating adult workers and researchers.

Thirty people became night school principals, responsible for teaching ordinary adults who wanted to learn in Chang'an City.

Ten became university presidents.

The so-called university is not the Confucian university, but is slightly less meaningful than the Imperial College. It studies how to translate the classics of various schools of thought into vernacular and then standardize education.

Because these one hundred people were soldiers, and they had a lot of money rewarded by Emperor Wu, so they didn't even need any funds to build a school.

Huo Hai meant that they should set up an education association, a 100-school alliance.

Then they opened schools all over Chang'an.

If there are any problems, they will be discussed and decided within the Hundred Schools Alliance. Any difficulties will be overcome together. If there is any need for assistance, the Huo family will step in to take care of it.

However, once the class starts, they must abandon their soldier status.

These one hundred people have reached the forefront of the times and are at a crossroads.

But in fact, their choice is obvious.

They were all just beginning to learn to read and were not born into particularly wealthy families.

It was because of being a soldier that he was able to reach where he is today and become a wealthy man.

They are smart and know that it is very difficult to continue to climb the career ladder in the military.

But now, there is an opportunity to gain social status in other ways, so why not do it?
If I become a principal now, what is the difference between me and the great scholars in today's society?
No difference.

Also, although I have received a lot of rewards from His Majesty, I can't spend the money myself and my son for the rest of his life, right?
Now everyone is doing business, turning money into business, and only business can make money.

Running a school is also a business, and it is a special business that receives special respect.

Why don't you do it yourself?

In the end, only a few people quit.

If a few people don't want to do it, then we'll select a few more people from the second wave of one thousand people to fill the vacancies.

Still a hundred people.

They can freely select the partners and teachers they want in the military and hire those who are willing to be teachers.

Of course, if someone feels that the selected person is very talented and capable and is worthy of long-term cooperation, and wants to bundle them with shares, that is fine.

At the beginning, Huo Qubing said that how many people Huo Hai could take away depended on Huo Hai's ability.

In fact, Huo Hai didn't need to do it himself, he just put together an education team of thousands of people.

Sixty percent of these thousands of people stayed in Chang'an County because they saw the changes in Chang'an County and knew that this place had the greatest potential for development.

Forty percent of them moved to various mausoleum counties and other more distant gathering areas because of their wives and children.

Although it is difficult to go to a faraway place to learn new teaching methods or new scientific theories, it is also difficult for them to be away from their families.

The reason I started a business now instead of continuing to serve in the army is to be closer to my family.

So they chose to go home without hesitation.

In fact, Huo Hai does not advocate the privatization of education, but the problem is that the court does not know the power of new-style education yet and cannot actively promote it.

Therefore, Huo Hai wants to take advantage of the current shortage of cultural personnel in Chang'an County and quickly develop new professional educators.

You have to know that these people are from good Han families and retired soldiers after all.

In the future, if Emperor Liu Che gives an order to open public schools and needs educational officials, they will definitely flock to them.

Because no matter how you do business, the official status is always a little higher.

In this way, one hundred schools were quietly built around Chang'an.

Sixty of them are located in Chang'an County.

Among the sixty schools, there are eighteen primary schools, eighteen night schools, eighteen vocational schools, and six universities.

There are eighteen primary schools, each with ten teachers, and the first batch of enrollment quotas is for 300 people.

There are 18 vocational schools with 10 teachers each. They not only teach reading and writing, but also collaborate with people from the Academy of Sciences to teach jobs like bricklaying, stonemasonry, carpentry, and blacksmithing.

With eighteen night schools, each teacher has to teach more students, because the students studying at night are adults who are very eager to learn, so there is no limit on the number of places.

The six universities are currently targeting people who do not know simplified Chinese characters but are already able to write seal script and Chinese clerical script.

At first, when the literati in Chang'an heard the news, they were all stunned.

What the hell, a soldier who has just learned to read for more than two months is teaching me, a person who has been studying for ten years, how to read? Is this funny? I won’t learn!

You should know that before the end of the year, more and more people who should have been recommended for filial and honest positions but were stopped came to Chang'an to look for opportunities. Many people also joined the Imperial Academy to translate scriptures, and there were a large number of scholars.

When these people have nothing to do, they either write poetry or study idioms.

Now there is one more thing to discuss, jokes about the new school.

"Let alone college, there probably aren't many people going to elementary school. Are they kidding me?"

"I would never send my son to study with someone who has only learned to read for two months."

“Have they learned it themselves, teaching others?”

However, to their surprise, the 5,400 places in 18 primary schools were filled up on the first day of school!
All the children of the people in the Academy of Sciences were sent to school.

Some miners, upon hearing that the chairman supported opening a school to teach Chinese characters, took leave and enrolled their children in school.

Recently their children have been living in Chang'an, and are learning Chinese, but they cannot find a way to learn Chinese characters even if they have money.

Now that the chairman has opened a school, what else is there to think about?

Many workers with educational ideas sent their children here.

In addition to them, there were some soldiers who were learning to read and teaching their children, but it was a bit difficult to teach their own children, so they simply sent them to school.

No one expected that all 18 primary schools in Chang'an County would be fully enrolled on the first day of registration!
However, no one has signed up for the 18 night schools and technical schools.

(End of this chapter)