"You can't stew adults and children in one pot, right?"

"It can be divided into two batches, day and night." Du Wen proposed her plan, "Children are changed to adults during the day and adults at night. ”

"You can't do that." Wang Luobin shook his head again and again, "You haven't been in the countryside - the children are also half a laborer in the countryside." I go to school during the day, and the villagers definitely can't agree to it. ”

Du Wen was right when she thought about it, but she was more interested in adult night school: "Then it's better to have a half-day class, and do a good job in night school......"

"More outrageous." Before Wang Luobin could speak, Chen Haiyang shook his head, "My family went to the countryside to join the queue when I was a relative*, and at that time there was also a night school, but when the farm was busy, it was all suspended-the peasants have a lot of labor intensity, and they have to rest after a day's work, who will go to your night school?" ”

"That's right." Wang Luobin nodded again and again, "And before you realize the benefits of being educated, it is difficult for you to attract them to study." ”

Seeing that they were all opposed, Du Wen was a little anxious: "Then won't you do it?" ”

"Yes, let's run a training class first, and we will also have an elite education." Xi Yaya said half-jokingly.

The so-called elite education mentioned by Xi Yaya is actually a cadre training class. This kind of temporary school was often used in local work in the past: to train activists who were close to the organization, although their purpose was different, but to raise their consciousness, strengthen their organizational discipline, learn the methods of work, and eventually become the driving gear of the masses in countless grassroots organizations.

Of course, this is easier said than done, and the so-called opening up of a place is the hardest. Especially the traditional rural society that is quite closed and conservative. The crisis faced by the salt works gave the traversers a golden opportunity to break into the local society, and in this respect, Gou Dahu was their hero.

So who are the activists? There are Tan family father and son, the daughter of the Tan village chief is also counted as one, and some are young people who have friends with Tan Chengqing. It is naturally inconvenient for single girls to have evening classes with a group of men, so at first this night school was only for men.

Wang Luobin was not in a hurry to gather everyone in a serious way, he just found Tan Guihuang first, saying that he wanted to set up a school for the children and teach them to read and count or something. Tan Guihuang looked embarrassed, saying that the children in the village had to help with some farm work on weekdays, and if they wanted to go to school, I was afraid that their parents would not agree. Wang Luobin promised that he would only attend classes for half a day every day, and that he would not miss the farm work, so Tan Guihuang reluctantly agreed to talk about it, and for the sake of insurance, Wang Luobin sent Zhang Xingjiao to lobby. Xi Yaya had promised free lunch for all the children who came to school, but this was too much for the dwindling food reserves.

There are a lot of children who come to Zuihou, and although most of them think that their children are useless in reading, they can read and write, and it is not bad for the farmer to settle an account. In addition, the school is only half a day, which does not affect the work in the fields.

The school is taught for four hours every afternoon, starting at 12 o'clock and ending at 4 o'clock. However, the salt people, like most of the ancient inhabitants, had little of an exact concept of time. In order to establish this concept, an electric loudspeaker was installed in the camp of Ge Hongmiao, which automatically played every hour: it was X o'clock in the time of Lingao - Xi Yaya knew that it would be useful to be so subtle rather than indoctrinate them with the concept of what time it is.

The members of the task force have invested a lot of enthusiasm in this education, and the curriculum is arranged to highlight simplicity and practicality, and the main content at this stage is literacy and calculation.

Generally, reading Chinese requires mastery of at least 500 basic Chinese characters, so Wang Luobin's literacy jihua is based on 500 basic Chinese characters. For the sake of this school, he made a special trip back to Bairencheng and found two suitable textbooks from the computer database of the intelligence group: the 1959 edition of "Rural Literacy Textbook" and the 1971 edition of "Rural Practical Mathematics". In particular, rural practical mathematics not only has simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but also has practical content such as calculating mu yield, volume calculation, and simple geometric measurement.

However, there are many words and phrases with a strong color of the times in these two textbooks, such as "the great leader Chairman Mao" that appears frequently, and "in the great proletariat......*" Wang Luobin copied and rewrote it overnight, and found Zhou Dongtian in the printing room and asked him to print 30 sets.

"30 sets?" Zhou Dongtian is also a little stingy now—his paper reserves have not been replenished. And these are two books, not a few pages of documents or folios.

"Yes, 30 sets, elementary textbooks. The sooner the better! ”

Zhou Dongtian looked through the manuscript and saw that there were many illustrations in it, and couldn't help but hesitate, the workload of this 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 Hanyu Pinyin in primary school Chinese -- Wang Luobin has always believed that simplified characters and Hanyu Pinyin are the two magic weapons that can popularize basic education in New China.

In Zhang Tongsheng's view, there is nothing shocking about these "vulgar characters", but as an education, he opposes the inclusion of "vulgar characters" in the textbooks -- "Misleading people's children." He commented.

Wang Luobin said that this is mainly to simplify education and facilitate children's reading and writing, and the purpose of educating these children is not to take the imperial examination and recite poetry, as long as they can write names, write letters, and read some simple books.

However, Zhang Xingjiao still feels very awkward, in fact, he knows almost all of these simplified words, in his opinion, simplified Chinese characters can only be used, not for the body: "The students you teach like this are going to make people laugh to death, and the articles you write are all vulgar characters, even if others don't laugh, we are ashamed to be teachers." Saying that, his emotions became excited, and he was a bit of a sworn defense of traditional Chinese characters.

Zhang Xingjiao also disagreed with the literacy textbook, in his opinion, it is enough for Tongmeng education to use 1,000 characters and 100 family names, and the new book is redundant. When he saw the beautifully printed literacy textbook, he cried out for pity - and many of the phrases and sentences in the textbook were "incomprehensible."

After Wang Luobin endured Zhang Xingjiao's criticism for more than an hour, he proposed a fair competition to him: the two of them each took a class to see who could learn to read and write first. bluffed Zhang Xing for a moment. He carefully read the literacy textbook again, and only said in a half-loud voice: "Your set of simplified characters is easy to recognize and write, so naturally you have the first ......."

"That's right, our set of simplified characters has the advantage of being easy to learn and remember, and people don't need too advanced knowledge, literacy is just to facilitate life." Wang Luobin patiently explained. Zhang Xingjiao was the first intellectual they came into contact with, and his attitude can roughly show what kind of views the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty had on the protection of the culture of the traversers.

After some persuasion, Wang Luobin took a step back: Zhang Xingjiao was still reluctant to propose to teach simplified characters and traditional Chinese characters at the same time, but it was already commendable that these overseas people could run schools for poor children. Besides, he is also a subordinate of other people, so he can't make too much trouble. Thinking of this, he finally agreed to assist Wang Luobin in teaching. In ancient times, scholars still had a sense of responsibility to educate the common people, unlike modern people, who went to work as teachers in response to the treatment of drought and flood and winter and summer vacations.

But for Wang Luobin, he was not satisfied. He failed to really convince a minor intellectual of the Ming dynasty to accept his arguments.

In order to avoid interference, in the initial stage, he started teaching the pinyin alphabet, teaching the children to learn the pronunciation of the pinyin alphabet - after learning pinyin, he also mastered the correct pronunciation of Mandarin. After all, the traverser is to be educated in Mandarin. Children's language learning ability is far better than that of adults, and education is twice as effective with half the effort.

In Zhang Xingjiao's view, Wang Luobin's teaching method is completely incredible. Confucian students like Zhang Xingjiao, since ancient times, the enlightenment education method is indoctrination, students enter the school, first from the three-character classic, the thousand character text, the hundred family names, prodigy poems to start reading, learn to write is to use the pen to draw red, the teacher basically does not speak, just take the child to read a paragraph every day, let the child read and recite repeatedly. This kind of teaching generally does not end until the completion of the Four Books. Ordinary students can memorize the four books backwards, and they know almost all the words.

But Wang Luobin's class started with the crooked ghost painting like something he didn't understand at all, what ah oh goose, and made a lot of beautiful cards: the word e is a goose, which taught the sound very intuitively, and the students memorized these things like singing, so they used this character to mark each word. Seeing this use, Zhang Xingjiao suddenly realized that the pinyin letters that the chief of the king hung on his lips all day long were used for phonetics, similar to the positive and negative tangential that the literati learned. (Note: There are many ways for the ancients to mark the pronunciation of characters, the most common is to use tangent and reverse tangent, and learning ancient Chinese in the Chinese department is a compulsory content)

However, Zhang Xingjiao also admitted that after learning this set of "pinyin letters", it was much faster to recognize new characters. There are even some smart children who can recognize words by themselves directly according to the pinyin marked in the textbook. This quick method made him very interested, and he asked Wang Luobin which Confucian came up with it. Wang Luobin said that this set of pinyin and simplified Chinese characters was developed by the overseas "Wen Yiwei" who had painstakingly studied it all his life -- the purpose was to enable all the Chinese people in the world to be literate and compose. Such a great ideal made Zhang Xingjiao awe-inspired.