Be a master through ancient times

After visiting the County School Mengtong Hall, Chuci invited them to have dinner in the inn just now.Because I still have something to do in the afternoon, I didn't order wine.

These adults have been walking all morning, and they are a little tired at the moment, and their meals are more delicious than usual.Some people flattered everyone, saying that Zhangzhou Prefecture not only has a good academic style, but also has good food. It is really a good place.

For such words, Chu Ci always smiled politely, and he didn't say much, after all, he stretched out his hand and didn't hit the smiling face, right?

In fact, today's table is at public expense, and one table can only be reimbursed two or two taels of silver. Because there is no wine, the dishes are better than before, but there must be a gap with what these adults usually eat.

The specifications for reimbursement of public expenses are determined by Chu Ci, and the prevention is that some people are corrupted by public expenses, and they need to get credit cards.Of course, if someone, on the basis of these two or two, can greet visitors well, prevent people from saying that the teacher is stingy, and can get money out of it, Chu Ci will not ask again, this is all his own ability.Therefore, how to find those restaurants and inns with high quality, low price and high grade, and delicious cooking is also a necessary skill for the officials of the Department of Education.

After eating, everyone took a short rest, then got into the carriage again, and followed Chu Ci to a school in the countryside.This school was formed after Chu Ci closed down several private schools in the village, and now there are 89 students in it.

According to the arrangement, they also listened to a class first.This class happened to be Chinese, and it was about the content behind the "San Zi Jing".

The teacher above first wrote the content to be learned today on the blackboard, and then pointed at the words with a ruler in his hand, teaching the children to read sentence by sentence.

"Three passers, there are Rams, Zuo's, and Guliang..."

"Elegant people, good at distinguishing words, seeking scriptures, this is the first..."

The children's reading sounded loud and clear, which cheered up the people who were tired and a little tired from the journey.

After confirming that the children can read, the teacher on the stage began to read individually.He took out a bamboo tube full of bamboo sticks and shook it at the children, and the children under the stage sat upright one by one, with nervous and expectant expressions on their faces.

The master reached down and took out one, and called out, "Zhang Kangkang."

The child named Zhang Kangkang stood up suddenly, his little face flushed with excitement, and he read out two lines of words on the blackboard loudly.

As soon as his voice fell, neat applause broke out.The master on the stage smiled and asked him to come forward, handed him the ruler symbolizing majesty, and asked him to read it twice.After that, the action of drawing lots was repeated, and almost half of the children in the class came forward and read it twice.After the Master announced that today's lottery was over, the children who were not drawn were still disappointed.

The people listening to the class below have never been exposed to such a class.In their memory, reading and studying is a very serious thing.Usually, the teacher takes the book and leads them to read it. After reading it a dozen times, they sit down and let them read it by themselves. It takes half a day to read it, and they can't stop halfway.Rao people like them who love to read sometimes feel bored when they were young.

But if you stop reading, once you are found out, you will be beaten with a ruler, and one hand will be swollen half a foot high, and you will have to read while crying.

These children also read a lot, but everyone is still very interested and eager to try.If you can always study in this state, why worry about your studies?

With inexplicable excitement, these people looked down more seriously, wishing to immediately move what they saw today back to their own prefectures, so that the students under their jurisdiction would be as eager to learn as they were.

After reading the book, the teacher on the stage asked them to open the book and read out the words to be learned today.Because they can read the whole sentence just now, they are familiar with these unfamiliar words at this moment.As he read aloud, the master circled these words with red chalk.

According to the previous teaching method, these characters should be memorized naturally by the students in copying over and over again.Because the ancients did not pay attention to the order of strokes, but only the gestures of the strokes. When writing, let the flow take its course, very free and easy.

This is of course beneficial, and because of this, the characters of calligraphers have their own shapes and are not out of the ordinary.But this is not friendly to children who are just learning new characters. There is no clear way to make it more difficult to memorize the glyphs, causing many people to write characters with missing arms and legs.In the eyes of adults, these situations are naturally due to the child's lack of seriousness in writing, so another meal of "ruler" is unavoidable.

The teacher on the stage is different. He teaches the children in the order of first left and then right, first up and then down, and asks the children to take out their hands and follow the words he wrote to practice empty books, and at the same time read each stroke. Come out to strengthen the memory.

For example, the character "梁" that is being taught now, there is a wooden character next to the traditional "梁", so the children stretch out their little hands and follow the master's "horizontal and vertical dots" while reading and writing. Unknowingly, they have learned this. word writing.Therefore, when practicing with pen and paper later, the difficulty of learning calligraphy at the beginning will not appear, because they have already split an unfamiliar character into many familiar structures.

Then the master explained the meaning of these sentences to them, the words were a little easier to understand, and even expanded some additional stories to illustrate.The children listened carefully, and the adults listening to the lectures also listened carefully.So much so that after a class, they still have something to say.

If the painting class in the morning was a trick, then the afternoon class really convinced these people.Even Taoist He, who had been criticizing him all the time, was silent in the afternoon.After all, the benefits of learning in this way are obvious, even if there are disadvantages, they are still flawed.

After returning to the inn, these credit-raising patrols immediately proposed the idea of ​​sending people over to study as soon as possible.

Who knew that Chu Tixue, who had always been very generous just now, said at this moment: "Wait a minute, my lords, you might as well listen to the official to analyze the pros and cons before making a decision. After all, this is about a whole family of children. If something goes wrong in your studies, this official will absolutely not be able to bear the responsibility."

Before teaching them, Chu Ci had to make a disclaimer. In case someone went back after learning something different and delayed the future of the students, he didn't want to bear the reputation of ruining their future.

These words seemed to have poured cold water on everyone's heads. These adults could not help but look at each other after they understood Chu Ci's voice-over.

At this moment, it was Yang Tixue from Nan'an Prefecture who spoke first: "I don't know what Chu Tixue wants to tell us?"

Chu Ci glanced slowly across the crowd, and said: "Before everyone learns, I want to tell you that the new textbooks and new teaching methods have been implemented in Zhangzhou Prefecture for about half a year. Before the implementation, it has been tested many times. The idea of ​​the people, but when it was actually implemented, they still heard a lot of opposition, and some people even cursed in front of the Tixue Division because of their emotions..."

"These rascals!" Hearing someone swearing at the door of the Tixue Division, an adult couldn't help substituting himself, and became genuinely angry.

Chu Ci hurriedly served tea to appease, and then said: "These people are not unreasonable, but they are more obedient, and naturally they are not used to it. What I want to tell you is exactly this. The implementation of a new thing must be done at the beginning. There will be many difficulties, if any adult can’t overcome it, Chu doesn’t suggest to carry it out.”

"Of course, using violent means to impose on the people will also lead to resistance and bring disasters. At that time, good intentions will do bad things instead, and Chu does not approve of it." Seeing the expressions of some people, Chu Ci hastily added.

"Chu Ti's theory is that it is right to persuasion to the common people." Master Zhou stroked his beard and nodded.

Seeing that these adults did not raise any objections, Chu Ci made another point: "If everyone agrees to implement it, then Chu recommends that you start again in September this year. First, the current students have been studying for a long time. If If you change rashly, you may not be able to adapt to it. It is better to start with the new school children and see the effect, and then gradually implement it. This is the same in Zhangzhou Prefecture. Second, the new textbooks will not be published in a short time. Everyone go back and count the number of people, and then order again to avoid shortage or waste." Chu Ci said the word order very loudly, of course it is impossible to supply free, this is a student of the province!

The adults nodded, thinking that what he said was reasonable, and they didn't care too much about asking for money, after all, the money didn't come out of their pockets.

"What's more, the schools above the county school and the ones below will be separated. When the adults send people to study, please pay attention to selecting different responsible persons. The people who are selected should be as young as possible." Chu Ci said the last point.

"Chu Tixue, I would like to know, why are the students above the county level and the countryside separated? Could it be that in the eyes of Chu Tixue, these students are also separated by rank or grade?" The person who spoke was A sub-road in Yanzhou Prefecture next door.This person's surname is Gu, and he grew up in a poor family. After he was finally promoted to be an official, he was assigned to the poorest county in Yanzhou Prefecture, so he was more sensitive.Hearing Chu Ci's division at this moment, he got up and questioned Chu Ci in a moment of urgency.

"Bold Gu Tong! Who told you to talk to Chu Tixue like this, and you still don't apologize to Chu Tixue!" His Shangfeng, Zhang Tixue of Yanzhou Prefecture, directly reprimanded, "Chu Tixue, my servant Not strict, please forgive me."

"Don't be angry with Zhang Tixue, and I don't mind. If Daoist Gu doesn't understand, I will explain it clearly. This division is not to divide the students into ranks. The origin of the official Everyone must know that if I look down on poor students, what is the difference from looking down on myself? It’s just Mr. Gu, have you noticed the difference between county school and village school?”

Chu Ci's words were sincere, and he did not shy away from mentioning his identity from a poor family. This made Gu Tong calm down slowly, and began to think about the meaning of Chu Ci's words.Others also thought back, what is the difference between the two schools I went to today?

After a long while, Gu Tong blushed and humbly asked for advice: "The lower officials are dull, apart from their different family backgrounds, I really can't think of any difference."

Chu Ci motioned to the side, and the attendant immediately took out two schedules and handed them to him.

Chu Ci put the schedule on the table and motioned for everyone to read it.One is from the county school in the morning, and the other is from the village school that I visited in the afternoon.The course schedule inside is roughly the same, the difference is that the county school has three sessions in the morning and two sessions in the afternoon, while the village school has three sessions in the morning and one session in the afternoon.Among the subjects in the curriculum, the county school has several more subjects, while the village school has nothing but Danqing and Yuefu.The big class break that made everyone feel strange in the morning does not seem to be included.

"As we all know, the children in the county school are from very good families. The family has relatively high demands on them, and a good family background can also support the expenses they need to learn various skills. The children in the village school, in addition to reading, also need Help the family share some work. Outside of school, they are almost in labor, so there is no need for additional activity arrangements. What's more, even if these courses are offered, their family is not enough to support the required expenses. For For most of them, reading more books and recognizing characters is much more useful than learning these seemingly flashy things."

The grown-ups were silent, yes, to learn piano, one needs a piano, to learn riding and archery, one needs a horse bow and arrow, and to learn chess, one needs chess pieces.Some of them were born in poverty, so they naturally knew how difficult it was for a peasant family to provide for a scholar.

This is the cruel reality. Quality education is aimed at people from well-to-do families. For poor students, these things are too extravagant.