Li Xiu wanted to start from his own side and promote large-scale basic education, so he built a free school, hoping to send the children of the surrounding tenant families to school, but he didn't expect that the children who came to school were only a few, and most of the children from the tenant families did not come, but almost all the children from Wuzhizhuang came. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Faced with this situation, Li Xiu was also very helpless, and after consulting Boss Liu, he also hoped that the other party could give him an idea, but Li Xiu was also sick and rushed to the doctor, Boss Liu was just a cropper who did his duty, and his knowledge was not as good as his daughter Su Niang, so naturally he couldn't give any good advice, which made Li Xiu quite disappointed.

After sending off Boss Liu, some people came to sign up one after another in the afternoon, but until the end of the registration, the total number of people barely exceeded four hundred, in fact, four hundred new students is already a very large number for a school, after all, this is only the first year, and new students will come in every year.

However, the ages of these 400 students varied, the oldest was already fifteen or sixteen years old, and the youngest was only five years old, and in this age range, the number of children around was estimated to be at least several thousand, compared to this huge number of children, 400 was really not much.

Although the four hundred people did not meet Li Xiu's expectations, they could only accept so many people first, after all, if people didn't come, he couldn't force others to send the children, and then he discussed with Tian Chip, and organized the more than 400 people into eight classes, each class has fifty people.

If you are very familiar with the general, a gentleman will definitely not be able to teach so many students, because the teaching in the private school is very different from the schools of later generations, and the progress of each student's learning is generally different, which also requires Mr. to teach according to his aptitude, teaching different content for each student, in fact, Li Xiu himself used this method when teaching children at home.

This kind of targeted teaching method belongs to elite education, Mr. one-on-one teaching students, so that students can learn the corresponding content more deeply, even if the learning progress can not keep up, Mr. can also slow down his teaching, and even develop special methods to help learn.

However, this kind of one-to-one education also has a big disadvantage, that is, Mr. has limited energy, and one person can teach twenty or thirty students at most, and if a gentleman is asked to teach fifty students in this way, I am afraid that Mr. will have to vomit blood.

Compared with later, the teaching of the school in later generations is much easier, the students in a class all belong to the same progress, Mr. will talk about a kind of content in the class, which saves Mr. a lot of energy, of course, this also requires Li Xiu to make the blackboard and chalk, these two things are not too technical, in fact, Li Xiu has used blackboard and chalk when teaching at home, and now he only needs to make more.

Of course, this kind of unified teaching also has great disadvantages, Mr. said above, positive students can understand the best, if you don't understand, Mr. can only focus on picking a few students to tutor, there will always be some students who are too poor to keep up with the progress of learning, this is also no way, after all, there must be disadvantages, but in general, this kind of unified teaching is more suitable for large-scale education, which is a bit like the difference between assembly line work and handicraft workshops in the factory.

Tian Chip is a very thoughtful person, and he didn't agree with Li Xiu's way of breaking the world at first, because he thought that it would be unfair to some students, especially those who were extremely good and poor, and they would be greatly affected in this kind of unified education.

But in the end, Li Xiu still persuaded him, after all, in comparison, those extremely good and extremely poor students are a minority after all, most of the students belong to the middle layer, and the new primary school he built is only for the purpose of enlightening the children around him, simply put, it is enough to let the students read and write, of course, if there are particularly excellent students, they can also be cultivated by the imperial court in the future, and even send them to participate in the imperial examination.

After the Shangyuan Festival, Xinzhu Primary School officially began classes, and the students who came to sign up before were also accompanied by their parents, wearing new clothes for the New Year to the school, and the school also held an opening ceremony, in addition to the teachers and students in the school, Li Xiu and Yang Dui also participated, and there were also some officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, and there were no other outsiders.

"Don Ma, you have built such a big school, after these children have completed their studies, will our Ministry of Agriculture also be able to select some of these children to be small officials?" After attending the opening ceremony, Yang Dui and Li Xiu chatted while walking in the school.

"Of course, these children have studied, I'm afraid they won't do some rough work like their parents, small officials, bookkeepers, businessmen, etc., these are what the children will do in the future, I don't want them to be like Shangguanyi and those people in high school, I just hope that they can broaden their horizons through learning, so whether it is for themselves or for our Datang, it is a good thing!" Li Xiu said with a smile at this time.

The founding of the Tang Dynasty is still short, and the number of officials is not much, but to manage such a large empire, these small number of officials are naturally not enough, so there is a large number of officials, such as more than eighty percent of the officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, these small officials are generally held by countless scholars who participated in the imperial examination, or failed to make the list, and after the officials above made a decision, they needed these small officials to really implement these things.

"That's great, our officials of the Ministry of Agriculture are no more than others, they need to be proficient in a lot of agricultural knowledge, and the scholars recruited from the outside world want to become a qualified official, at least a few years of training, and the scholars have a sense of arrogance, many people feel that they are not valued for a period of time, and they simply don't do it, in contrast, the students in this school can be cultivated from an early age, and I can also send some people to teach students some agricultural knowledge, and when they become adults, as long as they want, You can come to the Ministry of Agriculture to do things. Yang Dui said happily at the moment.

"The school mainly teaches language and arithmetic, not to mention arithmetic, no matter what you do, you need it, the language is mainly based on literacy and hyphenation, and you can also learn some Confucianism such as the Analects in the future, in addition, you may also teach astronomy, geography and other miscellaneous studies, and the things taught by the Ministry of Agriculture can also be classified into these miscellaneous studies." Li Xiu smiled again at this time.

For the students to be small officials in the future, Li Xiu not only did not object, but was very encouraged, in fact, Yang Dui's words gave him a great inspiration, maybe in the future can be specially classified for the new primary school, in order to cultivate a variety of specialized talents, this may not be seen in a short period of time, but over time, it will definitely have a huge impact on Datang.