The first batch of students to receive compulsory education have already graduated.
The older ones were fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger ones were eleven or twelve years old. Those with outstanding grades were assigned to work as mathematics teachers in rural primary schools.
As long as you have good math scores, you can become a teacher at the age of eleven or twelve!
A few with excellent grades were recruited to Ji'an Prefecture for further studies and could serve as middle school mathematics teachers.
The current education reform can only be rolled out in seven counties: Luling, Jishui, Anfu, Taihe, Xiajiang, Xingan, and Yongxin. The main reason is that there are not enough mathematics teachers. In the past, mathematics was taught indiscriminately. Many village and town schools simply did not teach mathematics.
There are no math classes.
This situation will be alleviated in another year or two, and qualified mathematics teachers will inevitably emerge in batches.
At least, teaching primary school is enough.
In primary school education in New China, many mathematics teachers teach themselves and teach students at the same time. Especially in rural areas, a dilapidated temple, a blackboard, a teacher, and a group of students constitute a school.
Under such educational conditions, hundreds of millions of migrant workers who can write and calculate have been cultivated.
It was similar under Zhao Han. It was said that there was three years of compulsory education (it was four years before, which was a bit too much), but in fact the teaching was messy. Many old academics taught students while studying on their own. After a few years, the quality of students was not good, but they themselves
I learned mathematics.
Luling County School was officially renamed Luling County Middle School.
School was supposed to start in August (lunar calendar), but due to delays due to floods, many things were not ready, and it was delayed until the end of September.
Zhao Han attended the opening ceremony in person. The scene was not lively because there were very few teachers and students in the school.
There are six towns in the county, and the town mayors preside over graduation examinations. The top ten can be promoted to county-level middle schools to study for free. There is only one middle school in the county, with a total of 60 public-funded students, and the remaining students must study at their own expense.
Currently, there is only the first grade of middle school, with 187 students and 8 teachers of each subject.
It must be admitted that the reading culture is really strong in counties like Jiangxi, which have major imperial examinations. In the first year of middle school enrollment, which is a very new thing, 127 students are self-financed. Some self-financed students are even from ordinary farmers' families, scrimping on food and clothing and sending their children to study.
Middle school.
There will definitely be more and more self-financed students in the future, and a second county middle school will be opened by then. The school's address has been selected in advance as Wuxing Town, which is to the east and west of the county seat and can take care of students in the entire county.
"Welcome Mr. Zhao!"
When Zhao Han appeared, the principal brought all the teachers and students to bow.
Zhao Han immediately bowed in return and said loudly: "From now on, I will welcome you instead of respectful greetings. I don't need your respect, I just hope you will be happy when you see me!"
The principal immediately bowed again: "Welcome Mr. Zhao!"
The principal's name was Zhang Chunqin. He was a child of an old boy. He was over 50 years old and had not yet been admitted as a scholar. In order to support him in studying, the whole family was starving to death. After Zhao Han occupied the capital, the scientific examination in Luling County was interrupted, and Zhang Chunqin simply ran away.
Go to the village to learn to be a teacher.
Zhang Chunqin knows traditional arithmetic and can learn mathematics quickly by himself. He is the only teacher in the whole village.
In this year's graduation exam, four of the top ten in Wuxing Town were mountain children taught by Zhang Chunqin. When Zhao Han learned of the situation, he immediately summoned him in person, encouraged him to continue his self-study, and appointed him as the head teacher of Luling County Middle School.
The first principal.
At this moment, Zhang Chunqin stood behind Zhao Han step by step, then looked at all the teachers and students with his head held high.
This was the highlight moment of his life. Zhang Chunqin thought that he had no hope of becoming a scholar, but he never expected that one day he would be able to teach in a county school. He did not think that his ability was too poor, but that there were problems with the previous imperial examination system, and he actively supported education reform.
He also determined that Zhao Han would definitely become emperor in the future.
Some people think that Zhao Han’s education is a mess, and naturally there are die-hard supporters like Zhang Chunqin.
Zhao Han began to lecture: "Students, congratulations on becoming the first batch of students in Luling County Middle School. The imperial examination is excellent, but how to conduct the imperial examination and how to conduct culture and education are debatable. The Chongzhen Emperor in Beijing, and
All the princes in the court felt that there was something wrong with the selection of officials through the imperial examination. Therefore, they increased the number of military strategies in the provincial examinations and general examinations, and also restored the recommendation system in the early days of the dynasty. They were all wrong!"
"As you can see, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Nanzhi, and Zhejiang are all experiencing famine this year. Even if Zhejiang is as rich as Zhejiang, people are already cannibalizing! Why is this happening? Not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters. Many officials in Zhejiang have committed heinous crimes.
In the new year, they don’t think about relieving disasters, but are still exploiting the people. The principles of Confucius and Mencius, benevolent government come first, these officials have read the books of sages and sages into the stomach of dogs!"
"Of the officials elected by the imperial court, one out of ten can do things, and nine out of ten can only talk. Officials who talk only often make officials who do things unable to do things. I reformed culture and education and reformed the government in order to select officials who can do things.
Officials, you are all the first batch of students of the new cultural education. You will make great achievements in the future. You will be able to clear away the filth and seek benefits for all people..."
"You read the Four Books and Five Classics, and you study mathematics, which can be used to do things. After you have gone to middle school, do you know that even if students who have not been promoted to middle school cannot become teachers, merchants are still willing to recruit them as apprentices. Why is this? Because they
If they are literate, they will know mathematics, which will be more convenient for them to use, and they don’t have to spend more time teaching..."
"From now on, you can easily make a living even if you don't be an official, a teacher, or a scholar..."
"In matters of culture and education, being an official is not the only purpose. People who study must first learn to be a human being, and secondly, learn to do things. If you can be a person and do things, you will not be able to go anywhere in the world..."
As Zhao Han said, merchants are very willing to recruit many students with poor grades as apprentices because they can save a lot of training costs.
These students, after graduating from primary school, are about 10 to 13 years old. They have a good cultural background and can learn anything very quickly.
If it were changed to the past, either large households would train their own domestic slaves and then send them to shops and workshops to serve as apprentices. Or they would recruit apprentices from the society, and it would take five or six years to train one. How can it be as easy as now?
Children in rural areas, especially in mountainous areas, are very willing to work as apprentices in the city.
Even if the land is divided at home, other family members can still take care of it. If the land cannot be cultivated, you can still spend money to hire day laborers. The income from working in the city is more than enough to hire day laborers to do farm work.
This is the advantage of the new education system, which allows students to better integrate into society.
Of course, the premise is three years of compulsory education. Otherwise, the cost of education for lower-class children is too high and they may not be willing to go to the city to work as apprentices.
And there must be a stable social environment. Under the governance of the Ming Dynasty, apprentices must ask for gifts, and more than three good people must be guarantors. Under Zhao Han's rule, it doesn't matter. Taking out a primary school diploma is more reliable than any guarantor. Even if
If something happens, such as escaping from a donation or something, the government can also go to the school to investigate family information.
After Zhao Han finished speaking, he bowed to the teachers and students, and the teachers and students also bowed in return.
Among the more than one hundred students, there were actually a few older teenagers, or young people, around twenty years old. They must have studied at their own expense, their family conditions were not bad, and they did not look like ordinary people in their clothing.
Eight teachers, six classes, two people take breaks and take turns to teach.
In addition, several school workers were recruited to do some chores, and the school cafeteria was contracted to businessmen. If it were not contracted, it would definitely be a mess, and the cost of food would skyrocket.
As for the merchants' tampering with food, haha, scholars in ancient times were treasures. Believe it or not, they went directly to the county government to petition!
Zhao Han stood outside the window and looked in. This class was teaching "Geometry".
This is also the reason why there are only seven county-level middle schools for the time being, because there are only seven people who know "Geometry" and are willing to be teachers. Moreover, these seven people are also half-hearted, teaching and self-study at the same time. After all, they only received "Elements of Geometry" last year.
But after the seven seeds were sown, three years later, there were hundreds and nearly a thousand graduates who knew "Geometry".
Passing the torch!
Zhao Han went to another classroom, where the first book of the "Four Books", "The Great Learning", was taught. The opening chapter was "Cultivate oneself, harmonize the family, govern the country and bring peace to the world" to establish a correct outlook on life for students.
After watching for a moment, Zhao Han left silently. He was in a very good mood, which was more satisfying than defeating the army and expanding their territory.
When will I find time to complete "Physics"?
It was too advanced and he had forgotten it, but he still remembered the basic knowledge of mechanics in junior high school. Newton's first law and third law of mechanics are impossible to forget in this life, but the second law is somewhat unclear.
It's okay. If you can remember two of them, you are already at the forefront of Europe. After all, Newton hadn't been born yet.
The school is very close to the General Military Mansion, just walk from the south city to the north city.
Zhao Han walked back slowly and unexpectedly met a person. Xu Xiake, who passed by here last year, was back again.
Xu Xiake in history did a lot of immoral things during this trip.
This guy was almost out of money before he arrived in Jiangxi, so he borrowed ten taels of silver from a friend on the way. When he was in Hunan, he was looted by bandits, leaving only a silver ear pick in his body. He ran to Hengyang again,
I asked my friend's son to borrow money. But my friend's son had no money, so he could only help contact the local union, mortgage the rent of the Xu family's 20 acres of land, and borrow 20 taels of silver. At the same time, the head eunuch of Prince Gui's Mansion mobilized the eunuchs
Donated fourteen taels.
When he arrived in Guangxi, an official gave him a pair of popular horse cards.
Holding this horse card can use the carriages and horses at the post station, eat and drink for free at the post station, and make the people work for free.
Then Xu Xiake started to act haphazardly, often using horse tags to ask the villagers to carry the sedan chair. Including the luggage, seven or eight sedan bearers were needed. Once the young man ran away, he even asked two women to carry the sedan chair for him. The villagers still wanted to carry the sedan chair.
Provide him with food and drink, and the food should not be too bad. In his own words, it is called "boiling eggs and offering pulp". At least he must eat eggs.
This horse sign can only be used in Guangxi. After entering Yunnan, Xu Xiake had to rely on himself. Once he stripped naked and wrapped himself in a quilt, and hung up all his clothes, shoes and socks to sell because he really had no money, so he finally sold it.
An outer skirt.
"Why are you back, sir?" Zhao Han asked.
Xu Xiake sighed and said: "Southern Hunan is in chaos, and it is difficult to move forward. My servants are dead, all my money has been robbed, all the borrowed money has been robbed, and even my clothes have been sold, leaving only this shabby and shabby thing on my body that no one can buy. To be honest,
I...I came back begging for food all the way. There was great prosperity under Mr. Zhao's rule. It was difficult to beg for food in southern Hunan, so we had to pick wild fruits and eat weeds. After entering Jiangxi, there were many people who were willing to give alms."
Zhao Han suppressed his laughter and asked, "Why is there so much chaos in southern Hunan?"
Xu Xiake said: "Hengyang has been occupied by rebels. All counties in Hengzhou Prefecture are full of thieves. There are also Miao people in the Southern Prefecture Prefecture who are causing trouble. I finally managed to raise some money, but I was robbed three times."
Zhao Han immediately became serious: "Let me explain in detail."