"Won't it delay students from studying the sage's writings?"

Such a question obviously has some pitfalls, and it can be said that it is a bit ill-intentioned, and this is the reason why Zhu Mingzhong asked this question. After all, in the future, someone will definitely ask that, someone will say that.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong will not ask questions as an apprehensor, but from the perspective of an opponent.

However, Zhang Shan doesn't think so now, and in his opinion, there is no so-called delay at all, after all, compared with the primary schools of later generations, there is no holiday for social studies in this era, compared to five days a week in later generations, there are winter and summer vacations every year, and the study of social studies is almost all year round: the school starts on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, and the museum is dispersed on the tenth day of the first lunar month; During the semester, the Dragon Boat Festival is the fourth and fifth day of the first month, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the fourteenth and fifteenth, the Qingming Festival, the half of July, and the New Day of October are each one day off. In addition, there are 3 days off per month.

"Returning to the scriptures, the teaching book of the teaching of books in social studies should be expensive but not too expensive, but those who can write 200 words can be given 100 words, so that students can have more than enough spirit, no boredom and self-satisfaction. If you are immersed in the writings of the saints all the year round, you will inevitably suffer from suffering, so it is appropriate to embellish them with arithmetic, geography, etc., which is also necessary to teach people's children. ”

Zhang Shan's answer made Zhu Mingzhong feel a little surprised, but then he thought that he was relieved, 365 days a year, if every day is the Four Books and Five Classics, there must be times when he is bored, and it is appropriate to mix with other courses, but it is helpful to teach, but now he is only adding arithmetic, geography and other courses to it.

Later, Zhu Mingzhong inquired about the teaching content of this social science, and basically understood that the primary level is equivalent to the lower grades of basic education, and in addition to teaching the writing of Bagu articles, the social science teacher also teaches a small number of applied words and mathematics required to run a family and start a business. As for the teaching content of enlightenment, it is mainly based on the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", "Filial Piety Classic" and Zhu Zi's "Primary School Collection Notes". Of course, it is different from Zhu Mingzhong's imagination that children receive this kind of education in private schools, even if they are "full of wealth" and "learn to be rich and rich" in the future, it cannot be used in their actual life at all. After all, many of them will never be "full of wealth" in the future, "learn to be rich and rich", and will not engage in the way of imperial examinations.

“…… Therefore, in social studies, most students in social studies are often engaged in agriculture or business, and they must know miscellaneous knowledge such as arithmetic. ”

A sentence is useless, so that Zhu Mingzhong can't help but look at this Zhang Shan more, there are really not many people who can say this sentence in these years, and it can even be said that it is a little earth-shattering, who dares to say that the sage's knowledge is useless now? But what puzzled him was that Zhu Zhiyu didn't have anything unusual because of his words, and seemed to have become accustomed to it.

It seems that this sociology is not divorced from reality.

Nodding silently in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong discussed with him the content of the daily lectures, and he also had a preliminary understanding of social science education in this era.

When he returned to Qinghe, it was getting late, the horse lanterns hanging in the carriage were on, and along the way, Zhu Mingzhong only thoughtfully recalled the primary education in Zhangjiaji and the nearby social studies, and learned about the primary education of this era.

"Chengren, what do you think about this trip?"

Looking at Zhu Mingzhong, who was silent along the way, Zhu Zhiyu asked.

"Teacher, this middle school education has a lot to offer!"

Zhu Mingzhong answered truthfully, what is the most important thing in secondary education? It is a source of students, and social studies is a stable source of students, and the reason why the vast majority of parents of students who are different from his imagination send their children to social studies is not to let their children engage in the imperial examination, but just to let them receive education, be able to read, write, settle accounts, and keep accounts, so that they will not be illiterate.

In other words, most students study to earn a living, which is exactly what middle schools want, after all, what middle schools need is not people who are bent on articles and gold lists.

Regarding Zhu Mingzhong's answer, Zhu Zhiyu was not surprised, and asked rhetorically.

"And what are the shortcomings in this sociology?"

"Mathematics can only add, subtract, multiply and divide basic arithmetic, and the foundation of mathematics is too poor, if you enter middle school, you have to strengthen it."

"So how should this be resolved?"

The teacher's question made Zhu Mingzhong ponder for a moment before speaking.

"His foundation in mathematics is poor, because his teachers are mostly not familiar with mathematics, but only basic arithmetic. In this way, if we want to improve the mathematics level of students, we must improve the mathematics level of social studies teachers, and we can naturally solve this problem by imparting mathematics and other knowledge to social studies teachers, and then assisting in the distribution of teaching materials......"

After a pause, Zhu Mingzhong understood Zhu Zhiyu's idea of letting him go together, compared to what he thought of running a middle school, Zhu Zhiyu looked farther, and he immediately nodded and said.

"Teacher, students get it."

While nodding in response, Zhu Mingzhong naturally thought of the normal school hundreds of years later, and the suggestion put forward by the teacher now is actually to establish a normal school.

If we want to develop modern education, we must establish modern teacher training, which is an immutable truth, and it can only take a few decades to train teachers. It is possible to build a modern education system.

Teachers are the foundation of the education system.

Of course, it is obviously unrealistic to establish a teacher training system based on teachers in this era, after all, there are limitations of the times.

However, this does not prevent Zhu Mingzhong from establishing a school similar to a normal school, and being trained accordingly by those teachers in social studies, starting from little by little, so that those students in social studies can master some knowledge that can be used in the world, and then they can enter middle school. Receive more esoteric learning in secondary school.

From now on, we will begin to transform the traditional social studies, carry out the kind of moisturizing and silent transformation, and finally, little by little, step by step, transform the social studies into primary schools, and finally establish a modern education system in China, so that education will become the engine of the industrial revolution. It's not impossible!

After thinking about all this, Zhu Mingzhong's mood suddenly improved, and that night, he even had a rare drink with Zhu Zhiyu and Zhu Daxian, father and son, and drank without getting drunk and not returning.

When he left Zhu's house, it was already completely dark, and when he looked at the time, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and Zhu Mingzhong did not leave the academy by car immediately, but walked around the academy.

In terms of scale, this academy now has the appearance of a later university. Thinking of this former academy in the past two years,

Now there is a vague potential to become a university, of course, not in its building and size. Rather, he is developing in the direction of a university, and in the future, he will definitely become the first university in China.

"Maybe more foreign scholars should be brought in."

When he met several foreign missionaries head-on, Zhu Mingzhong's heart once again had such thoughts.

At present, there are a number of "foreign professors" in Qinghe Academy, but most of them are missionaries, but this does not prevent them from disseminating modern scientific knowledge that has been ahead of China.

Therefore, they need their scientific knowledge, but Zhu Mingzhong is not very interested in the missionary status of those people, after all, those people came here to preach, even if they are teaching students now, their purpose is also to preach, it can be said that spreading scientific knowledge is just a means for them to preach.

"It's time to think about it, it's almost time."

Although the expeditionary fleet has not yet returned, Zhu Mingzhong has already made up his mind in his heart that it is time to send students to study, and of course, more importantly, to invite those scholars from Europe here, but they are giving lectures at Qinghe Academy to spread the most advanced scientific and theoretical knowledge.

But who are the scientists in Europe today?

Zhu Mingzhong, who was a little drunk, repeatedly thought in her mind about the scientists she knew, but except for one Galileo, she didn't seem to think of anyone else. I can't think of other European scientists of the mid-to-late 19th century.

"I don't know, is Newton an adult now?"

Talking to himself, Zhu Mingzhong finally decided to put this issue aside for a while, after all, the current understanding of Europe is almost blank, even if you want to hire scholars from Europe to give lectures in China, you must first send students to let those students choose scholars.

"You could also consider setting up an embassy there!"

Sending ambassadors to Europe is just to deepen understanding of Europe. Of course, there was a need to send foreign students, but in the 17th century, sending ambassadors from China to Europe was a bit too radical.

"Let's come step by step, next year we will start to prepare for the dispatch of foreign students, as for the ambassador's information or something, we will talk about it later."

Walking in the campus of Qinghe Academy, Zhu Mingzhong, who temporarily put aside all kinds of thoughts, is the first time to slow down and enjoy the scenery of this campus, although there are no electric lights in this era, but the light from the windows of those buildings and the light of the street lights, when the whole campus thank you, you have a different night scene. Zhu Mingzhong, who was immersed in the night view of the academy, just quietly admired all this, for him who had not been so relaxed for a long time, this was indeed a rather rare quiet night......——————————————————————————

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