Chapter 216: Academic Center: Teaching Learning

In the setting of the university, Dai Yan also almost completely copied the practice of modern comprehensive universities in later generations. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

He divided the ranks of teachers into three levels: professor, lecturer and teaching assistant.

For future generations of professors, they must be knowledgeable, have a comprehensive understanding of the whole knowledge of the profession, and at the same time have a deep research on a single issue; In terms of methodology, he is required to know all the methods of the profession, and he himself has a good grasp of one of the methods. And you must be able to do groundbreaking work and advance the discipline around the world!

And for the professors of Taoqiu University today, Dai Yan's requirements for him are stricter than those of later generations! The first professor of Taoqiu University must be the leader of a school, or the founder of a school! In the entire Taoqiu University, only six people can become professors, namely himself, Zhuang Zhou, Hui Shi, Yang Zhu, Tian Jiu and Xu Xing!

Among these six people, Dai Yan not only considered himself the sacrificial wine of Taoqiu University, that is, the president, but also served as the dean of the Academy of Sciences. Tian Jiu served as the dean of the Mo College, Xu Xing served as the dean of the Agricultural College, and Hui Shi served as the dean of the famous college.

As for Yang Zhu and Zhuang Zhou, who both belonged to Taoism and belonged to two different branches, Dai Yan had some difficulty in dealing with this, and then he made a decision to let Yang Zhu serve as the dean of the Taoist Academy, and Zhuang Zhou as the dean of the Faculty of Letters, and at the same time give Zhuang Zhou the right to teach knowledge in the Taoist Academy.

Such an approach is not only beneficial to Dai Yan, but also to the entire Taoqiu. In Dai Yan's view, Yang Zhu's Taoist ideology is very suitable for social and economic development and can be used as the official mainstream ideology. The Taoism to which Zhuangzi belonged was not easily understood, and it had a negative concept of escapism, which was not suitable as the mainstream idea of Taoism.

Of course, Dai Yan also knew that Zhuangzi's thought had made a great contribution to the development of Chinese literature and art in later generations, and that Zhuangzi had already written the famous "Wandering Away" in this era. Although Dai Yan himself would hum from time to time, "There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun; Kun is so big that it can't be stewed in a pot" to ridicule, but he is deeply aware of the literary greatness of this article!

With such a prose of great value in terms of thought and art, Dai Yan estimates that in this era, except for Qu Yuan, there is no one in the whole world who can create a greater work than this!

With such a great work, Zhuangzi as a professor and the dean of the Faculty of Arts is absolutely qualified!

For lecturers and teaching assistants, Dai Yan's requirements are also very high!

The lecturer is the backbone of the teachers of Taoqiu University and the main force of teaching. Basically, those who can serve as lecturers are currently the elite of various schools. Like the Mo family's tangzi, the farmer's Chen Xiang, and Yang Zhu's disciple Zhan He, these are absolutely elite talents even in the outside world to serve as lecturers!

In the major colleges of Taoqiu University, Dai Yan was also divided into several departments according to the practice of later generations, and some of the best of these lecturers also served as the administrators of these departments, which was the so-called department chairs in later generations.

The job of all these lecturers is to fill in the work left by the professors, to make the teaching content of the whole college more systematic and to make it perfect!

As for teaching assistants, Dai Yan does not give these people the right to teach for the time being, all they can do is to assist professors and lecturers in the work of assisting in the development of courses!

As the first president of Taoqiu University, although Dai Yan also wants to satisfy the bad taste that has crossed over from the later generations, he hopes that through the practice of his first president, he will set a rule for the later presidents!

In order to prevent Taoqiu University from becoming a vassal of Qi politics like the Jixia Academy, and swaying with the rise and fall of Qi and the king's preferences, the first thing Dai Yan did when he took office was to strictly delineate the relationship between Taoqiu University and Taoqiu's Yi Prefecture! This kind of thing seems a little awkward for a person like him, who is not only the lord of Taoqiu and the president of Taoqiu University, but it has to be done!

The most obvious way to draw a clear line is to separate the financial system of Taoqiu University from the Taoqiu Eup, and the salaries of the professors, lecturers, and teaching assistants of the University of Taoqiu are paid by the Taoqiu University, not through the Eup! This is the biggest difference between Taoqiu University and Jixia Academy!

Subsequently, he prescribed the method of acquiring property at the University of Tauqiu. The university is not allowed to do business, only to accept donations, to obtain research funds through cooperation with the trading houses and factories of Taoqiu, and to collect tuition fees to generate income.

Of course, Dai Yan, as the lord of Taoqiu, will also give Taoqiu University a certain amount of funding through Taoqiuyi Mansion. This grant will not exceed 20% of the University budget each year.

Since Dai Yan, as the lord of Taoqiu, has made a very large investment in the infrastructure of the entire Taoqiu University through businessmen, the consumption of funds in the future of Taoqiu University will be very small. With so many sources of funding, the University of Taoqiu is basically financially independent. It is also unlikely that in the future, once the Yi government cuts off Taoqiu's economic resources, Taoqiu University will go bankrupt and even weaken.

As the president of Taoqiu University, Dai Yan has set the basic principles for Taoqiu's academics: academic freedom, academic autonomy, and academic neutrality.

These principles can only be implemented with the support of an independent financial system!

Dai Yan set the financial system of Taoqiu University, as well as the principles of academic research, and also set some tone for the management of Taoqiu University. Because the university is an educational institution, a place that needs a liberal atmosphere, it is not a government agency, it is not an army, and it does not need to be strengthened by centralization. Therefore, Dai Yan's overall management of Taoqiu University is one word "loose". Through continuous decentralization, how to maximize people's imagination and creativity, how to come!

In order to achieve the goal of "loosening" the management of the university, Dai Yan introduced the management concept of professors governing the university in this era of feudal autocracy, which even the modern universities of the Celestial Empire did not have.

Now there are only six professors at Taoqiu University, plus Dai Yan. Therefore, the management of the entire school and the major affairs are managed by the six professors through consultation. For more subdivided internal affairs, it is managed by lecturers in each department.

Such a management model, which gradually lowers the power, is of course very suitable for the management of the university. As a result of this management model, the liberal academic atmosphere of the University of Taoqiu was formed, which laid the foundation for the liberal humanistic atmosphere that it would form in the future.

After such management, many lecturers of Taoqiu University have made pioneering contributions in academic fields in the future, and Dai Yan also passed these outstanding lecturers to become new professors in accordance with the school's system and by voting by major professors!

This makes the entire Taoqiu University, which is extremely similar to the university in the later Republic of China, a place with a free atmosphere and many masters!

The faculty at the University of Taoqiu are excellent and will become even better in the future with gradual optimization. However, Dai Yan's selection of students from Taoqiu University is completely different from the free and loose system of Taoqiu University, and his requirements for students who enter Taoqiu University are extremely strict!

At the admissions level, Dai Yan will conduct an unusually strict selection test! The University of Taoqiu admits students twice a year, and each time there is a rigorous entrance exam!

For all students who wish to enter the University of Taoqiu, they must master the six arts, namely: etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics! All the professors have no opinion on such a request, because this is the basic talent that the Zhou Dynasty official school requires students to master since the establishment of the aristocratic education system of the Zhou Dynasty!

In addition to these basic aristocratic talents, Dai Yan will also let all students who wish to enter take a unified exam, and the difficulty of these entrance exams continues to change with the development of Taoqiu University, and basically only the top one-third of the students who request admission can be admitted every time!

Of course, Dai Yan also knows that some preferential treatment is needed for the financiers who donate funds to the school. Even if Dai Yan restricts it according to extremely strict measures, it is impossible to completely ban the erosion of educational institutions by money and all efforts!

So he chose to add a price tag to this erosion: a million dollars for one admission place! And each donor has such a place once in five years!

In this way, the enrollment quota equivalent to the fiscal and tax income of the Song State for a year can only be afforded by those who are really rich and noble. Although this practice may seem unfair, it is a way to achieve greater fairness in the future through grooming!

Such strict admission measures not only did not displease the professors and lecturers, but were extremely supportive! In their opinion, through such a strict screening method, they will definitely be able to screen out really excellent talents!

And this practice also makes those parents who want their children to become Jackie Chan and the travelers who are eager to study and gain knowledge are very excited. Whenever Taoqiu's entrance exam came, Dai Yan would find that countless nobles and wealthy businessmen from all over the world came to Taoqiu, hoping to send their sons to Taoqiu University!

With such a strict enrollment system, after Dai Yan met the three students who all passed the exam, Dai Yan knew that Taoqiu University had been successfully run.

These three students are all people of the same race, and their names are Su Qin, Su Dai, and Su Li!