"You can't just cook adults and children together, right?"
"It can be divided into two batches, day shift and night shift." Du Wen proposed her plan, "Children will be in the daytime and adults will be in the evening."
"You can't do this." Wang Luobin shook his head repeatedly, "You have never been in the countryside - your children are half of the labor force in the countryside. If you go to school during the day, the villagers will definitely not agree."
Du Wen was right. In comparison, she was more interested in adult night classes: "Then just take half-day classes and do a good job in night classes..."
"It's even more outrageous." Before Wang Luobin could speak, Chen Haiyang shook his head. "When my relatives were young, they went to work in rural areas. Evening schools were occasionally held at that time, but they were all closed during busy farming periods. Farmers' labor intensity is high, and their work is difficult.
If you have to take a break after working all day, who will come to your night school?"
"That's right." Wang Luobin nodded repeatedly, "And before you realize the benefits of being educated, it will be difficult for you to attract them to study."
Du Wen saw that they all objected and became a little anxious: "Then we can't do it?"
"Okay, let's hold a training class first, and then we'll also provide elite education." Xi Yazhou said half-jokingly.
The so-called elite education Xi Yazhou mentioned is actually a training class for cadres. This kind of temporary short-term training class was often used in local work in the past: to cultivate activists who are close to the organization - although their purposes are different, through training they can improve
Their awareness, enhanced organizational discipline, and learning of work methods eventually became the transmission gear that drives the masses in countless grassroots organizations.
Of course, this is easier said than done. The so-called opening up of a place is the most difficult. Especially in a traditional rural society that is quite closed and conservative. The crisis faced by the salt farm gives travelers an excellent opportunity to break into the local society.
, from this point of view, Gou Dahu is their hero.
So who are the activists? There are the Tan family father and son, Village Chief Tan’s daughter, and some young people who are close friends with Tan Chengqing. Naturally, it is not convenient for a single girl to go to class at night with a group of men, so at the beginning
This night school is for men only.
Wang Luobin was not in a hurry to gather everyone seriously. He just went to Tan Guihuang first and said that he wanted to set up a school for the children to teach them reading and abacus. Tan Guihuang looked embarrassed and said that the children in the village
They had to help with some farm work on weekdays, and I'm afraid their parents would not agree if they were asked to go to school. Wang Luobin promised that he would only have half a day of class every day to ensure that he would not miss the farm work. Tan Guihuang reluctantly agreed to go and talk about it. To be on the safe side, Wang Luobin asked Zhang Xing to teach him as well.
Xi Yazhou originally wanted to promise free lunch to the children who came to study, but this was too reluctant for the dwindling food reserves.
There were quite a few children who came last. Although most people felt that it was useless for their children to study, it would not be bad for the farmers if their children could read a little and do some accounting. Besides, the school only lasted half a day, so it did not affect the work in the fields.
The classes in the school last for four hours every afternoon, starting at 12 o'clock and ending at 4 o'clock. However, the salt people, like most ancient residents, have little accurate concept of time. In order to establish this concept, the Gehong Temple Camp
An electric speaker was installed, which automatically played every hour: It is now x o'clock, Lingao time - Xi Yazhou knew that instead of instilling in them the concept of o'clock and o'clock, it would be more useful to do so subtly.
The members of the work team have invested a lot of enthusiasm in this education plan. The curriculum is arranged to be simple and practical. The main content at this stage is literacy and calculation.
Generally speaking, reading Chinese requires mastering at least 500 basic Chinese characters, so Wang Luobin's literacy plan is based on 500 basic Chinese characters. For this school, he specially returned to Bairen City and searched from the computer database of the Intelligence Data Group
Two suitable textbooks have arrived: the 1959 edition of "Rural Literacy Textbook" and the 1971 edition of "Rural Practical Mathematics". Both of these textbooks were specially compiled for rural education. They are easy to understand and highly targeted. Especially rural practical mathematics.
, not only simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but also practical content such as calculation of yield per mu, volume calculation, simple geometric measurement, etc.
However, there are many words and phrases with a strong flavor of the times in these two textbooks, such as "the great leader Chairman Mao" that appears frequently, and "among the great proletarian revolution..." Wang Luobin copied and rewritten overnight, and found Zhou in the printing room.
Dongtian asked him to print 30 sets.
"30 sets?" Zhou Dongtian is also a bit stingy now - his paper reserve has not been replenished. And these are two books, not a few-page document or a tabloid.
"Yes, 30 sets of elementary textbooks. The sooner the better!"
Zhou Dongtian looked through the manuscript and saw that there were many illustrations in it. He couldn't help but hesitate. The workload of drawing alone was quite large. However, he still promised to come up with the finished product as soon as possible.
However, in the textbook, Wang Luobin also added the teaching content of Chinese Pinyin in primary school Chinese. Wang Luobin has always believed that simplified characters and Chinese Pinyin are the two magic weapons that can popularize basic education in New China.
He showed this set of teaching materials to Zhang Xingjiao, and as expected, he was opposed by the middle-aged boy. In Zhang Tongsheng's view, these "vulgar characters" were not shocking, but as an education he objected to the use of "vulgar characters"
Included in the textbook - "It is misleading to the children." He commented.
Wang Luobin said that this was mainly to simplify education and facilitate children's reading and writing. Besides, the purpose of educating these children was not to take the imperial examination, recite poems and write essays. As long as they could write names, write letters, and read some simple books, it would be enough.
However, Zhang Xingjiao still feels quite awkward. In fact, he knows almost all of these simplified characters. In his opinion, simplified characters can only be used for practical purposes, not for style: "The students you teach like this will make people laugh to death. The articles they write are generally
The articles are all in common Chinese characters. Even if others don’t laugh at us, we are still ashamed to be their teachers.” As he spoke, he became emotional and almost wanted to defend the traditional Chinese characters to the death.
Zhang Xingjiao also disagreed with the literacy textbook. In his opinion, a thousand-character text and hundreds of surnames were enough for childhood education, and newly compiled books were unnecessary. Seeing the beautifully printed literacy textbook, he exclaimed that it was a pity -
Moreover, many phrases and sentence patterns in the textbook were marked as "unreasonable".
After Wang Luobin endured Teacher Zhang Xing's criticism for more than an hour, he proposed to him a fair competition: each of them would take a class to see who could learn to read and write first. Teacher Zhang Xing was stunned. He read the literacy textbook carefully again.
, and then said after a while: "Your simplified characters make it easier to recognize and write, so naturally you have the upper hand..."
"Yes, our set of simplified characters has the advantage of being easy to learn and remember. People do not need too advanced knowledge. Literacy is just for the convenience of life." Wang Luobin explained patiently. Zhang Xingjiao was the first intellectual they had in-depth contact with.
His attitude can roughly tell what kind of views the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty had on the culture of time travellers.
After some persuasion, Wang Luobin took a step back: Zhang Xingjiao was still reluctant to propose teaching simplified and traditional Chinese characters at the same time. However, it was commendable that these overseas people could run schools for poor children. Besides, he was also their subordinate.
We can only make ends meet, so we can't make things too tense. Thinking of this, he finally agreed to assist Wang Luobin's teaching. Ancient scholars still had a little sense of responsibility to educate the people, unlike modern people who only go to work for the benefits of guaranteed harvests during droughts and floods and winter and summer vacations.
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But for Wang Luobin, he was dissatisfied. He failed to really convince a small intellectual in the Ming Dynasty to accept his arguments.
In order to avoid interference, in the initial stage, he started teaching from Pinyin letters and taught the children the pronunciation of Pinyin letters - once they learned Pinyin, they also mastered the correct pronunciation of Mandarin. After all, time travelers need to be educated in Mandarin.
.Children’s language learning ability is far better than that of adults, so education can get twice the result with half the effort.
In Zhang Xingjiao's view, Wang Luobin's teaching method is completely unbelievable. Confucian scholars like Zhang Xingjiao have received indoctrination education methods since ancient times. When students enter school, they first learn the Three-Character Classic, the Thousand-Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, and Prodigy Poems.
To start reading and learn to write, you have to draw red with a pen. The teacher basically does not teach, but just takes the children to read a paragraph every day, and let the children read and recite it repeatedly. This kind of teaching usually does not end until the "Four Books" are finished. Most students can read the Four Books
I can memorize it backwards and forwards, and almost know every word.
But Wang Luobin started the class with something like a winding ghost drawing that he didn't understand at all. He also made many beautiful cards: the word "e" is a goose, and he taught the pronunciation very intuitively.
When they came out, the students memorized these things as if they were singing, and then used these characters to read each word. Seeing this use, Zhang Xingjiao suddenly realized that it turned out that this leader Wang was talking about it all day long.
The pinyin letters of are used to notate phonetic sounds, similar to the tangent and fantang learned by literati.
However, Zhang Xingjiao also admitted that after learning this set of "pinyin letters", it is much faster to recognize new words. Some even smarter children can recognize words by themselves directly based on the pinyin markings in the textbooks. This quick method allows them to
He was very interested and asked Wang Luobin which great scholar came up with this. Wang Luobin said that this set of pinyin and simplified Chinese characters were developed by the overseas great scholar "Wen Gaiwei" who spent his whole life - the purpose is to make the world
All the Chinese people under the Central Government could read and write. Such a great ideal made Zhang Xingjiao awe-inspiring.