"Qianruo, what are you doing?"

The girl listened attentively to the conversation between the gentleman and the grandfather in the house, it seemed that it was not the first time to do this kind of thing, when Zhang Xiang was a gentleman in the past, she often went to eavesdrop outside the school, and she had already practiced perfectly.

It's just that when she heard someone calling her not far away, she was immediately startled, her head lifted, and then with an 'oops' sound, she hit the window railing.

Su Qianhou came from not far away, looked at his daughter who was rubbing her head, frowned, and said in a low voice: "What are you doing, you ghost girl?" ”

"Shh

She sighed softly, then got up and hurriedly pulled her father away quickly, and came to the courtyard, only then did she pout, "Oh, Dad, what are you doing!" I was just hearing the key when you interrupted me. ”

"You damn girl, eavesdropping on Mr. and Grandpa." Su Qian nodded her forehead: "If your grandfather knows, he will have to teach you a lesson." ”

"Dad, I just heard from my grandfather and Mr. that the imperial court is going to fight next year's grain requisition?" Su Qianruo asked curiously.

Su Qianhou grabbed her and walked outside: "You ghost girl, what are you doing with this." ”

"Oh, Dad, isn't it?"

"That's none of your business, there's a lot to do! What do you care about? ”

"Dad, you'll give it to me! You are in the army, if the court is going to fight, you must know it, right? ”

“……”

The two fathers and daughters spoke, and their voices drifted apart.

In the study, Zhang Xiang also got down to business with Su Shaoyuan: "Old Su, I heard Qianruo, you have also read the stories she wrote. ”

Su Shaoyuan nodded: "She, that's what you used to do, when you were a gentleman in Huating Academy, I also heard from you, there are many truths in these stories of Ming Heng, students like to listen to them, and they can also learn, Qianruo This girl likes it, so the old man let her go." ”

Zhang Xiang said: "Old Su, now that I am no longer in Huating Academy, I wonder what happened to the students I taught at the beginning?" ”

Su Shaoyuan smiled appreciatively: "It's not bad, originally after you and Yanzhi left, many students taught Yun Zhang together, Yun Zhang is sometimes too busy, and often comes to me to complain, but the students you have taught are very conscious, even if he is not in the school, those students can study by themselves." Now that there are a few more gentlemen in the academy, Yun Zhang is a little more relaxed, I still listen to Yun Zhang, the students you taught at the beginning were not satisfied with the current gentlemen, and as soon as these gentlemen started class, they dozed off, but even so, those students' homework was very good, and many things that had not been taught, they had already finished learning. ”

So, Su Shaoyuan was relieved: "Ming Heng, your teaching methods are really useful, if there are more gentlemen like you in the academy, the old man will not worry about these children." ”

Zhang Xiang smiled lightly: "Old Su, in fact, children are very smart and learn things quickly, but because of their age, they are stubborn and heavy-hearted. Their minds are very active and simple, and as long as you show kindness to them, they will like you, and they will listen to what you have to offer. Most of the gentlemen are too serious, the child is afraid in his heart, this fear, the mind is full of the ferocious appearance of the gentleman, that Mr. naturally they don't have the heart to remember, teach the child, first of all, you have to be friends with him, let him accept you, like you, so that he is willing to learn what you teach. ”

Su Shaoyuan said: "But throughout the ages, the elders and young have been respectful and orderly, and the children are naughty, if the gentleman is not serious, won't he lose his majesty?" ”

Zhang Xiang shook his head: "Su Lao, you don't like to hear Ming Heng's sentence, Mr.'s majesty, this is the common problem of most schools, Mr.'s majesty is not established in a serious way, in the eyes of the child, as long as you are fierce, he thinks you are a bad person, this is in the child's heart, not majesty, but malice, although Mr. is for the good of the child, there is no so-called malice, but the child thinks so, for a long time, it will make the child's heart accept such a ' Malice', then no matter what this gentleman teaches, the child will naturally not listen. Older children may gradually understand that Mr. is serious for their good, but when they are young, they have just entered the school and have not seen people's hearts, so they will naturally be afraid, and they will accept this kind of 'malice' from the beginning in their hearts, so how will he learn in the future? ”

Su Shaoyuan said: "Although what Ming Heng said is not unreasonable, if Mr. is not serious, the child will not be able to learn." ”

Zhang Xiang nodded: "Yes, so, as a gentleman, teach children not to blindly show 'malice', but to take them to do something they like in a timely manner, so that they can accept that you are good to them from the bottom of their hearts, let them accept your kindness, and slowly establish a friendship with children, so that they will listen to what you say." Children just like to play, then take them to play, they like to listen to stories, then tell them stories, anyway, you have to make them willing to listen to you, in this way, as a gentleman, it is already half the success, I use this way to make those children like me, stories are an interesting way to transmit, because simple, children can understand, and yearn for, if the whole only knows to teach them Zi said, Zi said, for their age, it is too difficult, they don't understand, Because they have not received many things, and have not yet been exposed to such a thing as the truth that this thing is right, sir, this is right, and even if they hear it, they do not know what to call it right and how to call it wrong..."

"For example, 'threesome, there must be my teacher, choose the good one and follow it, and change the bad one', most of the gentlemen are taught, Confucius, three people walk together, one of them must have something you are worth learning, choose his advantages to learn, and his shortcomings don't learn, and then reflect on whether you have the same shortcomings, if there is, then correct."

"However, has Su Lao ever thought about what kind of advantages are called advantages and what kind of disadvantages can be called disadvantages for a child? For a child, he is extremely difficult to judge, an adult, good and evil are indistinguishable, you are a bad person, but he thinks what he is doing is right, so is he good or evil? Therefore, let alone a child, because his three views have not yet been established. ”

"What are the three views?" Su Shaoyuan listened carefully and suddenly asked.

"Uh..." Zhang Xiang, who was getting up, was greatly embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Oh, it's just to be reasonable, to look at things, and to choose the goal of life for the future, that is, a child does not have these three conditions, so he naturally doesn't know what is right and what is wrong." However, if you tell him a story, he can easily understand, it is easy to accept, most of the truths need to be understood after experience, as the saying goes, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. If you go to Beijing with him, once upon a time, there were three people who went to Beijing to take the exam, went to a village, and met an old woman who fell on the side of the road, and one of them went to help the old woman and sent the old woman home, while the other two were unwilling to help, and let their companions not be allowed to help. Later, the three of them rushed back from the exam, because they were so hungry that they couldn't walk because they ran out of dry food, and they fell on the side of the road, and met the old woman again, but the old woman only rescued the person who helped him, and the two finally starved to death. ”

"Among the three shortages, only the one who chooses to help don't spare you can learn, but those two are unwilling to help Rao, you can't learn, use such a story to convey such a truth, and the child will understand in his heart, then as long as he encounters the same thing again in the future, he will know what to do, it is right to help others, and it is wrong not to help others."

After listening to Zhang Xiang, Su Shaoyuan also fell into a moment of silence, as a great Confucian, he has studied Confucianism all his life, and before he met Zhang Xiang, he never thought that the transmission method of truth was simple and direct.

He sighed a little and said: "Listening to Ming Heng's words, the old man is really ashamed, but he has always learned in this way, so he didn't think about anything else." ”

Zhang Xiang said with a smile: "Su Lao, there are no children who can't learn well, only teachers who can't teach well, they don't teach strictly, and teachers are lazy, and they have always been like this in the past, that's because many gentlemen, like Su Lao, haven't thought about it, but they just think that it has always been like this, so everyone is like this." But the way of education can be flexible, its purpose is to teach the child well, as long as you understand what the child likes, then you can teach him in the way he likes. ”

Su Shaoyuan praised: "Yes, it is the old man who has fixed himself and opened the academy for so many years, and it is the first time I have seen Ming Heng use this method to teach children." ”

Zhang Xiang hurriedly and modestly arched his hand: "Don't be like this, Su Lao, compared with everyone who opened a academy like Su Lao, so that Pingzhou children can afford to go to school, Ming Heng can only be regarded as smart, not worth mentioning." ”

Su Shaoyuan pondered: "In this case, is there any good way for Ming Heng to teach?" After all, there is no gentleman like Ming Heng in the academy, if he can, the old man wants the gentlemen in the academy to change the original teaching method. ”

Zhang Xiang nodded: "Old Su, in fact, these days, Qianruo often goes to the Horse Mansion, and she also told me about some situations in the academy. ”

"Oh?" Su Shaoyuan was surprised.

Zhang Xiang said: "I came today because I want to discuss this matter with Su Lao, I don't know how Su Lao feels about the stories written by Qianruo?" ”

"That's all your story, naturally it's good, and the old man also thinks there's something to learn from it."

"Ming Heng has a suggestion, Su Lao might as well let every student in the academy have such a book in their hands."

"Huh?"

"Su Lao, I mean to make this kind of book a necessary book for every student to assist in learning in the future, not only that, but the gentlemen of the academy, everyone must also have such a book in their hands, so that those gentlemen can use the same way as me to teach students in the way of storytelling, and then apply the truth of the story to the Confucian books that students learn, in this way, students will naturally learn with half the effort, I don't know if Su Lao thinks it is feasible?"

"This ......" Su Shaoyuan was naturally a little surprised by Zhang Xiang's suggestion.

Zhang Xiang continued: "Su Lao rest assured, this book, the whole process will be printed by me, the content of Su Lao to control, if you feel that it is not suitable, Su Lao can change it, but to change such a learning method, you need Su Lao to be a respected person, after all, this can convince the world that this way is right, and the people are willing to let their children learn, otherwise, if it is done by Ming Heng, it will not be recognized, I believe Su Lao understands the reason for Ming Heng." ”

Su Shaoyuan pondered slightly, and the smile on his face gradually brightened: "Okay, then the old man will accompany you to change this education method..."