Chapter 265: Sociology

After three years of study, Du Chensheng finally graduated, and after communicating with his teachers and getting the approval of his parents, Du Chensheng finally chose to study at the university in Guangzhou City.

Originally, an exam was required to enter the university, but before graduation, the teacher told Du Chensheng a good news, because the number of students who signed up for the university exam did not exceed the limited number of places, and the Metropolitan Governor approved that this batch of candidates did not need to take the exam to enter the university directly.

This is indeed good news for Du Chensheng, he himself has good academic performance on weekdays, but he is also worried that he will fail with a low score in the exam, so Du Chensheng can only choose to become a teacher and try to take the exam in the future.

Now Du Chensheng has graduated and is sure to go to university, but Du Chensheng still has to stay at home for three months, and the university will start on the first day of February next year.

Not only does the university start on the first day of February, but the next batch of primary school students also starts on the first day of February, with the first semester starting in February and the second semester starting in August, and there will be a long or short holiday at the end of each semester.

There are still three months before the start of the university, and it is impossible for Du Chensheng to do nothing at home, so the teacher recommended Du Chensheng to study college textbooks on his own during these three months.

Du Chensheng wanted to create more powerful firearms for the soldiers of the People's Army, so Du Chensheng chose to enter the university's gun design and manufacturing major, specializing in muskets and artillery.

Muskets and artillery are both mechanical, muskets and artillery need to burn gunpowder when firing projectiles, so gun design and manufacturing majors must learn physics and chemistry, chemistry is relatively less, more is to learn physics, but also to learn advanced knowledge of mathematics.

The three books "Intermediate Mathematics", "Elementary Physics" and "Elementary Chemistry" are the main textbooks of the first semester of Du Chensheng's first year of entering the university, and the Wenhua Bookstore does not sell them, but the university has already thought that the students are free for three months, and the relevant books are ready, and the students can go to the Wenhua Bookstore to pick them up after graduation.

After receiving the three books "Intermediate Mathematics", "Elementary Physics" and "Elementary Chemistry" from the Wenhua Bookstore in the county seat, Du Chensheng couldn't wait to learn the knowledge in the books.

However, without a teacher, some of the knowledge in the book will be difficult to understand, so Du Chensheng is more in the endorsement, and when he enters the school, he will be able to have a teacher to explain the knowledge in the book.

The students in the same class as Du Chensheng have also graduated, only three days have passed, and there are only eight students left in the village, one classmate is going to the university with Du Chensheng, and the other seven students are staying to follow the teacher to learn some experience of being a teacher, maybe these seven students may also enter the university in the future.

Du Chensheng's teacher needs to stay here for about half a month, teaching his experience as a teacher to seven students, one of whom thought that he would stay in Kinoshita Village and become teachers in the Kinoshita Village school, while the other six would leave Kinoshita Village to become teachers in the newly established schools in various places.

Half a month passed quickly, and as the new teachers went to the schools in various places, the enrollment of schools in various places will also begin.

The enrollment process is very simple, after the teacher comes to the school where he teaches, he can contact the village chief after simple preparation, and determine how many boys of all ages are in the village through the village chief, and the maximum age for recruiting students is 14 years old, and no matter how old they are, they will not be accepted.

In general, a teacher can teach about 40 students at a time, preferably no less than 35 and no more than 50, and the teacher will determine the number of students from top to bottom according to the number of boys of each age.

Due to the number of teachers, only one class can be enrolled at a time, and after three years have passed, one school can have multiple classes, and students of appropriate age can be enrolled every year instead of waiting for three years.

The enrollment of students in some areas of Huizhou City did not have much impact, after all, there had been one in the previous three years, but the enrollment of students in other regional schools began to occur, which directly had a huge impact in various places.

Reading and literacy, even if the people are "ignorant", they also understand the importance of reading and literacy, if there is a scholar in the family, you can get rid of the identity of the bottom of the society, in the eyes of the people, as long as the identity of the reader is higher than them.

Also, even in the areas ruled by the People's Army today, as long as a person can read and write, he can easily find a job and earn more money than ordinary people work hard to farm.

Now the opportunity has come, the People's Army has set up schools in various places, and the children of the common people can enter the schools for free, but the conditions are very few, only the age limit and the deployment of the People's Army after graduation.

From the teacher's mouth, the common people know that this teacher's classmates either enter the army to become officers or become officials in the government, and can also become teachers who teach and educate people, and this kind of deployment makes parents who want to send their children to the school to read and write are very satisfied.

Basically, ordinary people just knew that their children could sign up for school, so they hurriedly took their children to the school to register.

The establishment of more than 800 schools in various parts of the People's Army to teach students free of charge had a greater impact on the city of Guangzhou, and the gentry and businessmen were shocked by the People's Army's generosity.

The People's Army is not the only thing that teaches school-age people to read and write for free, but also the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

In the twenty-third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1286), the imperial court issued an order: all villages belonging to each county should take fifty families as a society, set up a president, "teach and persuade agriculture and mulberry as business", and set up a school, select those who are familiar with scriptures as teachers, and send children to school during the agricultural slack season, read "The Book of Filial Piety", "Primary School", "University", "Analects", "Mencius", and take teaching and persuading agriculture and mulberry as the main task, which is social science.

The Yuan Dynasty fell, and social studies were temporarily suspended; In the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375), the imperial court ordered the establishment of social schools in various places, and invited teachers and Confucians to teach the children of the people; In the first year of orthodoxy (1476), the imperial court ordered the scholars and county officials to support and supervise social science. In the seventeenth year of Hongzhi (1504), all prefectures and counties were again explicitly ordered to establish social studies, and it was stipulated that civil children under the age of 15 should be sent to social studies.

The Ming court seems to attach great importance to social studies, but the actual implementation is not very good, there is almost no social science in Guangdong alone, only the clan and some people who study literature will open a school, and the children of the people at the bottom want to enter the school to study, it is simply impossible.

Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, probably only Jiangxi's social science development was better, mainly Li Mengyang and Wang Yangming vigorously promoted social science in Jiangxi, while most other areas under the Ming Dynasty ruled that the development of social science was very poor, if the people at the bottom could read and write, how could they not be oppressed and exploited by the landlords and the government like this.