Chapter 55 Declaration of Education
Persuading the many students and their parents around the door, Zhang Junping led the horse into the academy.
"Zhang Guanren is here!" A teacher in his thirties saw Zhang Junping come in and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
There are two meanings of officials, one is the more familiar one, the title of the wife to the husband; The other is the official title corresponding to the emperor, the honorific title of the official.
"Mr. Xie!" Zhang Junping also returned the salute.
This Mr. Xie is one of the teaching gentlemen hired by the academy, named Xie Kan, who has passed the government examination three times, but unfortunately missed the provincial examination, failed to be named on the gold list, originally opened a Mengxue, after hearing that Zhang Junping offered a high salary to hire a teacher, he resolutely closed his own Mengxue and came to be an ordinary teacher.
This Mr. Xie Kan Xie is not greedy for Zhang Junping's high salary, the picture is the famous Confucians of the academy, although those famous Confucians are students of the academy, but it also improves the opportunity for these young teachers to get close to the famous Confucians, whether you can ask for advice or two, it depends on your personal ability, no matter what, this is always an opportunity.
"Zhang Guanren..."
"This is the academy, let's call me the mountain chief!" Zhang Junping is not very interested in the title of official, and when he hears this word, he will think of Ximen Daguanren.
"Mountain Chief, in just half a day, three hundred students have been recruited! According to the instructions of the mountain chief, there are 100 Mengxue students under the age of 15, and 200 students between the ages of 15 and 25 who have advanced to the imperial examination! ”
"Hmm!" Zhang Junping nodded, indicating that he knew.
Xie Kan because he had run a Mongolian school, according to Zhang Lu's understanding, Xie Kan's Mongolian school is still relatively famous, although he has tried many times, but he has quite a lot of management skills, so he was appointed by Zhang Junping as the manager of the college, in the words of later generations, let Xie Kan serve as the teaching director of the college.
Xie Kan led Zhang Junping to the study house before he spoke: "Mountain Chief, the students have been recruited, but this accommodation, the academy does not have so many houses for students to live in!" ”
This is the second time he and Zhang Junping have met, when he appointed the steward before, he met once, and the order to recruit 300 students was also conveyed by Zhang Lu, although Xie Kan implemented it seriously, but there were many problems in it that needed to be solved, so Xie Kan took the opportunity to speak to Zhang Junping.
"It's simple, you arrange for someone to find a carpenter first!" Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"The Carpenter Academy has it, and it's building desks for students! Students, please do it! Xie Kan said, turned around and called the carpenter.
"I've seen the mountain chief!"
"Master's surname?"
"The surname is Liu!"
"Master Liu! Do you take a look, such a bed may be made? Zhang Junping took out the drawings he had drawn when Xie Kan went to find the craftsman just now and handed them to Master Liu.
"Back to the mountain, this is the first time I've seen such a bed, and the two-story bed is a novelty, but it's not difficult to think about it!" Master Liu glanced at the drawings and said confidently.
"So good! Trouble Master Liu to recruit more craftsmen and hurry up to make one hundred and sixty such beds! Since the house is limited and cannot accommodate so many people, the occupancy rate can easily double with the high and low bed.
"Mountain chief, this one, the small one can't be understood, this is a cupboard?"
"It's the cupboard, students live in one room, there are always some personal belongings that need to be stored, this multi-compartment cabinet is specially used for students to store their personal belongings!" Zhang Junping explained.
Now that the bunk beds are out, there is no shortage of a locker.
"It's not difficult to make this cabinet, but I see that the mountain chief is marked with a copper hinge, and I'm afraid the price will be higher! How about making the user hub! ”
"It's okay, just use the hinge! My academy is not short of this money! Zhang Junping arrogantly rejected Liu Dajiang's kindness.
Note: Hinges have been invented in the Qin Dynasty, but the author does not know what the ancient pipe hinge is called, so he can only use modern names.
After explaining the processing and manufacturing of high and low beds and lockers, Zhang Junping went to visit the famous scholars who had moved to the academy.
"In order to cope with the imperial examination, the subset of classics and history has consumed a lot of time for students, and if they go to learn the six arts of a gentleman, won't they waste their time in vain?" A famous Confucian named Gu Fang had some complaints about Zhang Junping's request for students to learn the six arts of a gentleman.
"Mr. Gu! The imperial examination can be said to be the goal of the vast majority of students! However, it should not be the goal of our college! When we teach and educate people, we must not rush for quick success and profit, and only aim for the imperial examination!
And from the perspective of cultivating talents, we should cultivate talents for the country, not nerds who can only go through a subset of history! ”
"What does this have to do with the six arts of the gentleman?"
"Of course it is!
The six arts of the gentleman proposed by Zhou Gong, and the five virtues and four cultivations proposed by the sage, all have great truth! is to prevent the younger generations of Confucian scholars from becoming a nerd who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, and can only read poetry and books! Even if such a person is named on the gold list, what is the benefit of the high school champion to the country?
If students do not keep the five virtues and four cultivations in mind, they will see them in action. Just reading poetry and books, and taking reading as a means to become an official in the imperial examination, then the higher the knowledge and the higher the official position, the greater the harm to the court and the people!
When my generation of Confucian scholars read the books of sages, they must establish a gentleman's character and be a virtuous person! Zhang Junping unceremoniously stood on the moral high ground to criticize Gu Fang.
"This ...... The old man has been taught! Gu Fang surrendered and conceded defeat.
He can't help but admit defeat, Zhang Junping takes the words of the sages everywhere, and he is not allowed to refute it at all. As a celebrity and Confucian, if he dares to say that the six arts, five virtues and four cultivations of a gentleman are not important, then there is no need for Zhang Junping to speak, but if his words are passed on, Shilin will have no place for him in the future.
Seeing Gu Fang admit defeat, Zhang Junping smiled and changed his rhetoric, "Of course, the literature and martial arts and the emperor's family are the wishes of my generation of scholars!" The imperial examination is the threshold for my generation of scholars to serve His Majesty and seek well-being for the people of the world!
Therefore, we cannot ignore the imperial examination either!
However, there is one thing we must understand that the imperial examination can only be a technique, and it cannot be regarded as a Tao!
You can't treat the imperial examination as a lifelong study! ”
"Mountain Chief, the imperial examination is for the country to select talents, how can it be a technique?"
"What is the imperial examination for? It's fu, it's strategy, it's poetry!
Can these people be admitted to the Jinshi just by studying the Four Books and the Five Classics?
You gentlemen are all famous people in the world, I am afraid that you know better than me! Even if you turn over the Four Books and Five Classics and memorize them like a stream, you may not be able to pass the Jinshi exam!
Again, when we teach students, is it for the purpose of being admitted to the Jinshi?
Speak for the sages and ask for the people's lives! This is the duty of my generation of scholars!
The sage led his disciples to travel around the world, and only then did he have the seventy-two sages!
It can be seen that to read thousands of books, you have to travel thousands of miles!
Our generation of scholars should follow the example of the sages, temper their talents with the six arts of gentlemen, experience life with travel, and increase their experience!
Of course, occasionally every day the gentlemen will give questions for students to practice! Zhang Junping said a lot of nonsense, and finally pointed out the key points.