"Will it delay students from studying saints' articles?"

Such a question obviously carries some traps, which can be said to be somewhat ulterior motives, and this is the reason why Zhu Mingzhong asked this question. After all, there will definitely be people asking this in the future and some people saying this.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong will not ask questions as an apologist, but will ask questions from the perspective of an opponent.

However, Zhang Shan didn't think so now, and in his opinion, there was no such thing as a so-called delay. After all, compared with the elementary schools in later generations, there were no holidays in this era. Compared with the five days a week in later generations, there were winter and summer vacations every year, and the study of social schools was almost endless all year round: the school started every year on the 15th of the first lunar month and the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month; during the semester, the Dragon Boat Festival, the 14th, the 15th day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the 14th, the 15th day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the 15th day of the Qingming Festival, the 10th day of the New Year of the October lunar month, and the first day of the October lunar month were all on holidays. In addition, there were 3 days off every month.

"Relying on the classics, teaching teaching in social sciences should be of great importance but not much. Anyone who can have 200 characters can only teach one hundred words, so that students can have more spirit and never suffer from suffering and have the beauty of self-satisfaction. If they are immersed in the articles of saints throughout the year, they will inevitably suffer from suffering. Therefore, appropriately embellishing arithmetic, geography, etc. is also necessary to teach children."

Zhang Shan's answer surprised Zhu Mingzhong a little, but then he felt relieved. If the Four Books and Five Classics are 365 days a year, if it is 365 days a year, it will definitely be bored. Appropriately mixing other courses will help teaching, but now it is just adding courses such as arithmetic and geography to it.

Then Zhu Mingzhong asked about the teaching content in this society, and basically learned that the junior level is equivalent to the lower grades in the basic education stage. In addition to teaching eight-legged articles, the society teachers also teach a few applied words and numbers that are needed to build a family and establish a career. As for the teaching content of enlightenment, the three-character classics, "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Classics", "First Character Classics" and Zhu Zi's "Collection of Primary School Notes". Of course, it is different from Zhu Mingzhong's imagination that children receive this kind of education in private schools, even if they are "full of knowledge" and "learning with five cars" in the future, they will not be able to use them in their actual life. In addition to their regular careers, the society teachers will also teach common knowledge such as number recognition. After all, many of them will never be "full of knowledge" and "learning with five cars" in the future, nor will they engage in the imperial examination.

"... So, in general, most students in social sciences often work in agriculture or business after they are fifteen, and they must know about miscellaneous knowledge such as arithmetics. For them, articles are nothing more than personal self-cultivation, but they are useless in ordinary times."

A word of uselessness made Zhu Mingzhong unable to help but read Zhang Shan more. There are not many people who can say this sentence these days, and it can even be said to be a bit earth-shaking. Who dares to say that a saint's knowledge is useless? But what puzzled him was that Zhu Zhiyu did not have anything unusual because of his words, and seemed to have become accustomed to it.

It seems that this sociology is not out of reality.

After nodding silently in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong discussed with him that the content of the daily teaching, he also gained a preliminary understanding of the social education of this era. Because it was his first time to come to social education, Zhu Mingzhong spent half a day to understand the situation of social education.

When I returned to Qinghe, it was already late, and the lanterns hung in the carriage were on. Along the way, Zhu Mingzhong only thoughtfully recalled Yu Zhangjiaji and the nearby social schools, the primary education of this era. If I had some concerns about establishing a middle school before, then now, I am full of confidence because the quality of students in social schools far exceeds my imagination.

"Chengren, what do you think about this trip?"

Zhu Zhiyu asked with a smile looking at Zhu Mingzhong who was silent all the way.

"Teacher, there is great potential for middle school education!"

Zhu Mingzhong answered truthfully, what is the most important thing about middle school education? It is the source of students, and social science is a stable source of students. The reason why most parents of students who are different from his imagination sent their children to social science is not to allow their children to engage in the imperial examination, but just to allow them to receive education, be able to read, read, calculate accounts, and not be ignorant of people.

In other words, most students study for a living, which is exactly what middle school needs. After all, what middle school needs is not people who focus on eight-legged articles and those who focus on the title of the Golden List.

Zhu Zhiyu was not surprised by Zhu Mingzhong's answer and asked back.

"Then what are the shortcomings in this sociology?"

"Mathematics only knows basic arithmetics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The foundation of mathematics is too poor. If you enter middle school, you must strengthen it specifically."

"How should this be resolved?"

The teacher’s question made Zhu Mingzhong ponder for a moment before saying.

"The poor foundation of mathematics is because his teachers generally do not understand mathematics and only understand basic arithmetic. If you want to improve students' math level, you must improve the math level of the social teacher. You can teach the social teacher's mathematics and other knowledge and assist in the distribution of textbooks. This can naturally solve this problem..."

After a brief pause, Zhu Mingzhong understood what Zhu Zhiyu wanted him to accompany him. Compared to the middle school he thought of, Zhu Zhiyu looked farther away. He nodded immediately and said.

"Teacher, the student understands."

While nodding, Zhu Mingzhong naturally thought of the normal school hundreds of years later. The suggestion proposed by the teacher now is actually to establish a normal school.

If you want to develop modern education, you must establish modern teacher training. This is an unchanging truth. Only by spending decades to cultivate teachers can a modern education system be established.

Teachers are the foundation of the education system.

Of course, it is obviously unrealistic to establish a teacher training system based on teacher in this era. After all, there are limitations of the times here.

However, this does not prevent Zhu Mingzhong from starting a school similar to a normal school and being trained by the teachers in the society, starting from one bit by bit, first allowing the students in the society to master some knowledge that is useful in the world, and then they can enter middle school and receive more profound knowledge in middle school.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with your feet. From now on, you will start to transform traditional social sciences, carrying out the silent transformation. In the end, you will transform social sciences into primary schools step by step, and finally establish a modern education system in China, making education the engine of the industrial revolution. It is not impossible!

After understanding all this, Zhu Mingzhong's mood suddenly improved. That night, he even had a rare opportunity to drink with Zhu Zhiyu and Zhu Daxian and his son, and drank happily, and did not return until they were drunk.

When I left the Zhu family, it was completely dark. I looked at the time and it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Zhu Mingzhong did not take the bus to leave the academy immediately, but was walking around the academy.

In terms of scale, this academy now looks like a university in later generations. Thinking of this former academy in the past two years,

Now the potential to become a university has been vaguely revealed. Of course, it is not his campus and scale. Instead, he is developing in the direction of a university. In the future, he will definitely become the first university in China.

"Maybe more foreign scholars should be hired."

When he met several foreign missionaries, Zhu Mingzhong once again had such thoughts.

Now there are a group of "foreign professors" in Qinghe Academy, but most of them are missionaries, but this does not prevent them from spreading modern scientific knowledge that is already ahead of China.

So their scientific knowledge is needed, but Zhu Mingzhong is not very catching a cold about those people's missionary identity. After all, those people came here just to preach. Even if they teach students now, their purpose is to preach. It can be said that spreading scientific knowledge is just a means of their mission.

"We should think about it, it's almost time."

Although the expeditionary fleet has not returned yet, Zhu Mingzhong has made up his mind that it is time to send overseas students. Of course, it is more important to invite European scholars here, but they teach at Qinghe Academy and spread the most advanced scientific theoretical knowledge.

But what scientists are there in Europe now?

Zhu Mingzhong, who was a little drunk, repeatedly pondered in his mind about the scientists she knew, but except for one Galileo, he seemed to have no idea about anyone else. He could not imagine other European scientists in the mid-to-late 19th century.

"I don't know, is Newton adult now?"

While talking to himself, Zhu Mingzhong finally decided to put this issue aside. After all, his understanding of Europe is almost blank now. Even if he wants to hire scholars from Europe to give lectures in China, he must first send overseas students to let those international students choose scholars.

"You can also consider setting up an embassy there!"

Sending ambassadors to Europe is just to deepen their understanding of Europe. Of course, it is also in the need to send overseas students. However, sending ambassadors from China to Europe in the 17th century was a bit too radical.

"Come on step by step, and start preparing to send overseas students next year. As for ambassador information, I will talk about it later."

Zhu Mingzhong, who has temporarily put aside all kinds of thoughts, has been slowing down and enjoying the scenery of this campus for the first time. Although there are no electric lights in this era, the lights from the building windows and the lights of street lights. When the whole campus is thankful, you will have a unique night view. Zhu Mingzhong, who is addicted to the night view of the academy, just quietly enjoys all this. For him who has not been so relaxed for a long time, it is indeed a rare quiet night...—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
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