3. Twilight College
There are many academies in Yunxiangguo, and most of them are open to the common people.
Children who have reached the age of five can be admitted as long as their families can afford the conditions offered by the different levels of the colleges, and if they can pass the entrance examination of the college, that is, the interview of the teacher of the subject to which they are applying.
It is said that it is an interview, but in fact, it is just a teacher who subjectively judges whether the other party is in line with his eyes before accepting students......
The academies that Yunxiangguo opened to the people of the world are divided into three levels: first-class, second-class, and third-class.
The bundle of the third-class college costs 5 taels of silver a year, the bundle of the second-class college costs 100 taels of silver a year, and the bundle of the first-class college costs 1,000 taels of silver a year.
Corresponding to the rank of the college, the "gentlemen" who teach in the college are also divided into grades.
In Yunxiangguo, if you want to teach at the academy, you must take the national unified "gentleman grade" exam held in October every year and apply for the subject you want to teach.
After the results are announced, the government will put up a notice advertising the name of each person on the list and the grade they have received.
If you are on the list, after knowing the grade you have obtained, you can go to the corresponding level of college to find a job according to your grade.
In general, as long as you meet the qualifications and there happens to be a vacancy in the college, most of the people who come to seek employment will be hired. Salaries are flexibly distributed according to the specific amount of money received by each college each year.
However, in terms of distribution ratio, it is necessary to strictly abide by the relevant provisions of the relevant decrees issued by the imperial court.
The imperial court would send envoys from time to time to conduct inspections, and if it was found that any academy did not strictly abide by the salary ratio stipulated in the decree, it would immediately seal down the academy, confiscate all the assets of the academy, and the academician would be imprisoned. As for how many years of detention will depend on the amount of corruption......
In Yunxiangguo, the academies are all public, and the academicians are also directly appointed by the imperial court.
It can be said that all the academies in Yunxiang Kingdom are all government agencies specially opened by the imperial court for the purpose of popularizing education.
The administrators of the academy, the academicians, were appointed by the imperial court and were officials who served the imperial court, except that they did not have to go to court every day, as many courtiers did.
Academicians, their most important task is to run well the academies that the imperial court has entrusted them to administer and run!
Different from the "academicians" appointed by the imperial court, "Mr. " is mostly from the people. As long as you have passed the subjects you have applied for and obtained a grade recognized by the imperial court, you can go to the corresponding level of academy to find a job.
In the final analysis, "sir" is still just a common man, not a person from the DPRK and China.
And there are three grades of "Mister": first, second, and third.
As the name suggests, "Mr. Sanpin" can only teach in "third-class colleges", "Mr. Erpin" can teach in "third-class colleges" and "second-class colleges", and "Mr. Yipin" is the most free, he is free to teach in any college he chooses to teach in as long as there is a vacancy in that college.
After officially becoming a "Mr.", if you want to be promoted, you can continue to take the annual "Mr. Grade Exam". If the grade is improved, it is natural to go to a higher level academy to teach, but if the result of the exam is that the grade has decreased...... The court will only change the person's "gentleman grade" based on this "new record......
Therefore, those who still take the "grade exam" after obtaining grade recognition are actually taking risks......
If you don't get it right, you may lose even the teaching qualifications you have now!
Out of such concerns, most of the people who have passed the "grade" examination and obtained the position of "sir" in the academy will most likely choose to live their lives silently in their current positions, rather than choosing to take risks lightly......
Therefore, the "gentlemen" of almost all the academies in Yunxiangguo are usually relatively content with their positions, and the mobility of talents is small, and the loss of talents is also less.
In addition, because the position of "sir" is not considered an official position, the women of Yun Xiangguo can also hold it—as long as they are talented enough to pass the guò "grade exam" and be recognized by the imperial court.
And, in Yunxiang Kingdom, among all the professions that women can engage in, the largest number of people are the "gentlemen" of this academy in addition to business.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that the imperial court allowed women to receive the same education as men.
In Yunxiangguo, both men and women, as long as they are at least five years old, and their family's economic conditions allow, most of them can enter the academy and get more equal learning opportunities.
However, the difference is that after graduating from the academy, men can participate in the scientific examination held by the imperial court in December every year to win the opportunity to become officials in the imperial court, but women are "not allowed to enter politics" and can only choose to engage in other professions that have nothing to do with politics.
Therefore, there are many talented women who choose to take the "Mr. Grade Examination" and obtain the recognition of the imperial court, so as to get a chance to teach in the academy and display their talents.
Because the law clearly stipulates the specific amount of enrollment for each level of college, due to economic pressure, there is a clear differentiation between the students and the social class in which they are enrolled......
Generally, most of the students who choose to go to third-class colleges are children of ordinary people who barely have to worry about food and clothing;
Most of the students who choose to go to second-class academies are the children of some businessmen with relatively well-off families, or the children of officials below the third rank who are officials in the court;
The students who can generally go to the first-class academy are the children of officials who hold official positions above the third rank in the court, or most of the children of the four major families, and some children of the royal family with relatively mediocre qualifications.
In Yunxiang Kingdom, in addition to these three levels of academies, there is actually a very special academy that is never open to the common people and court officials-the Yuju Academy.
The Seowon is a royal college. Except for the children of the four great families who are free to choose their choice of colleges and universities under the royal charter, only the children of the royal family can enroll.
The gentlemen who teach are all from the rivers and lakes, but they are all "the best in the world" in their fields!
It is said that these gentlemen owed more or less the kindness of the current emperor and the deceased emperor in their early years, and in order to repay the kindness, they made a promise early on - they would stay in this academy and teach for half a year every year.
But these Jianghu people have their own principle of accepting apprentices that they must stick to to the end: only accept talented and intelligent apprentices.
Such a request suddenly excluded most of the children with mediocre qualifications in the royal family!
And the other small number of royal children who were able to enter this academy by virtue of their natural intelligence and ability, if they do not meet the eyes of the master they worship after apprenticing, they can only helplessly become the role of "attendant" instead of "apprentice" - although on the surface, they still have the identity of "student".
Therefore, over time, there was such a saying circulating in the Academy: "Unless you are a 'disciple' of the 'master' himself, you cannot be regarded as the 'apprentice' of the 'master' at all! Most of the students here, to put it bluntly, can only be regarded as 'attendants' who help the 'master'." No matter how long you stay, you can only learn a little bit, and you can never expect to learn the true essence of the skills possessed by the 'master'! If that is the case, it is better to drop out of this academy and transfer to the 'first-class academy' to study! In this way, it will be more promising......
Although Gao Ran has the right to freely choose the academy because of her background, as for whether the 'master' she worships in the future will be willing to pay attention to her and teach her, it depends on her own ability!