Chapter 374 [Middle School]
Wei Yan, together with Sima Hui, Hu Zhao, Wang Cang and others, selected easy-to-understand chapters from Confucian classics such as the Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi, as well as the Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi, Mozi, Sun Tzu, and other Confucian classics, and compiled them into four books in order from easy to difficult, providing the first to fourth grades as the most basic courses. In this way, during the entire primary school period, except for "Primary School", books, and mathematics to annoy those primary school students, other courses are entertaining, playing middle school, learning and playing, these children are basically not hard, not depressed, not five-way bars.
In the third year, after the more than 1,000 normal students of the second phase of the Central University Hall graduated, they began to set up primary schools in Wubao in each pavilion and middle school halls in the county or large townships.
The secondary school is open to all children between the ages of 10 and 15 who have a little basic knowledge, and of course these children have to pass a selection test based on merit in order to get the chance to enter the secondary school.
The reason for setting up this selection exam is that Wei Yan feels that most of the talented and dull children still only receive a certain amount of enlightenment education, as long as they can understand the daily newspapers issued by the government, can understand the notices of the Wei army, can consciously resist the rule of the family, and can consciously cultivate their children, it is enough.
After all, in this era, there are still a large number of yeoman farmers, traders, slaves, and tenant farmers, and if they are easily allowed to go to middle school and then university, it will only make them have unrealistic ideas, thinking that they can be civil and military generals, so they disdain to do ordinary work.
Before he crossed over, he saw too many such tragedies, the university began to expand, many high school students who could not be admitted to the university can squeeze into the university gate, they think they are the pride of the sky, but they don't know, in the eyes of the authorities, they have become migrant workers with diplomas, they have been promoted by life, they can't find their own position, the first few years of entering the society are very painful, until they give up the pride of the sky, adapt to the society, and gradually become happy.
Wei Yan can't sit back and watch the selection of talents based on the quality of reincarnation, he can only give everyone an equal chance, whoever has good talent and is willing to work hard, who will have further opportunities,
Wei Yan set up a middle school hall in each county town, one hundred county seats, there are one hundred middle school halls, each middle school hall has about a thousand students, each middle school hall has only five teachers at the beginning, these thousand students have just entered the middle school hall is naturally the first grade of the middle school hall, according to Wei Yan's ten-year education system, they are considered fifth grade students, and the graduation of the Central University Hall is considered the tenth grade.
The first batch of students was allocated to 500 teachers in the middle school in the first phase, and an average of 200 students could only get one teacher, and there were so many subjects to be taught, at the beginning, they could only use the method of excellent student teaching assistants, even if the teachers were strong later, the tradition of excellent student teaching assistants continued.
The middle school hall is only set up for three years, and there is no distinction between the junior high school hall and the high school hall, and the learning curriculum is basically an upgraded version of the primary school, which is slightly different from the primary school hall in that the students of the middle school hall have to go to the Wei army barracks for military training during the winter and summer vacations in each school year. Wei Yan wants to make the entire Han nation strong, and the education of all the people must be combined, and the implementation of militaristic education is carried out, so military training during the student period is indispensable, and in this era of war, it must be strengthened, at least to let them have the power to protect themselves in the face of the enemy.
Wei Yan found that the difference between people's talents is very large, some children are born smart, can learn in half a year or even less to learn the content that other children take a year to learn, according to the education system promulgated by Wei Yan, these children can skip grades, as long as they pass the skipping exam, they can skip grades one after another, so that some stupid children are still in the first grade in the primary school at the age of fifteen, and some children are ten years old to the seventh grade in the middle school hall.
Of course, talent is not the most important, the degree of diligence is the determining factor, many children are talented, but they are lazy by nature and do not seek to be motivated, so they gradually disappear from the crowd, there are two kinds of people who really laugh to the end, talented and diligent, talented and diligent, and generally very diligent and hardworking, on the other hand, those who are talented but lazy by nature, generally talented but lazy by nature, and too poor are eliminated one after another.
The textbooks for the students of the middle school hall were also compiled by Wei Yan and all the scribes, including Sima Hui and Hu Zhao.
The etiquette learned in the middle school is the entire "Book of Rites", and some of the absurd and untimely things in it have been drastically deleted by Wei Yan, especially the annotations of many scholars such as Dong Zhongshu and others on the Book of Rites, which are simply dross. Of course, what is more important is to practice etiquette, and some etiquette that is not suitable for this era has also been deleted by Wei Yan, and new etiquette such as handshake ceremony, hug ceremony, kiss ceremony, and military ceremony have been added.
The music learned in the middle school hall is more practical on the basis of the primary school hall, and the orchestra, dance troupe, and choir troupe composed of these students have become the main performance team of every celebration in the township, county and other places where the middle school hall is located, and unlike those poor children in the later generations who stood in the cold wind and braved the heavy rain to give free performances to those bastards who had umbrellas, they were all paid, and all of them were set aside by these orchestras, dance troupes, and choirs for operating expenses, and Wei Yan wanted them to learn to be independent and learn to operate at a young age.
The archery they learned in the middle school is practical, and every month they have archery competitions and hunting competitions.
Twice as many horses are allocated to the secondary school from the racecourse than to the primary school, and basically every five children have a horse, and they can take turns riding and practicing their equestrian skills.
The cadets of the middle school were also incorporated into the Boy Scouts to assist the local county and township soldiers to do a good job of vigilance, and when the war situation was stable, some of the archery masters of the middle school would also climb the castle tower and shoot arrows at the invading enemy troops under the protection of the county and township soldiers. Wei Yan has always firmly believed that if what he has learned cannot be quickly transformed into productive combat effectiveness, he will learn in vain and a pure waste of time.
Because the fonts of this era are all traditional Chinese, many characters have a lot of strokes, and it is difficult to memorize, so there are still literacy classes and calligraphy courses in the middle school, and the students in the middle school who write well in calligraphy have the opportunity to participate in Wei Jun's propaganda team, and later, Wei Yan will gradually promote simplified characters.
The students of the middle school have begun to learn complex mathematical arts such as Juntian, Libu, Differential, Shaoguang, Shanggong, Junyi, Yingyu, Equations, Pythagorean, etc., and use the arithmetic they have learned to participate in specific labor production, settle accounts for their respective families, and assist the tax collectors in the townships and pavilions.
In addition, Wei Yan based on the later junior high school and high school physics, chemistry, biology textbooks, and then refer to the current "Mozi", "Lü's Spring and Autumn" and other works, racked his brains, compiled a "Gewu" for middle school students to learn, "Gewu" most of the content is very basic knowledge, but the facelift, all dictated by Wei Yan, like what Newton's three laws of motion, in this era, was also discovered by Wei Yan.
In his spare time, Wei Yan took the stage to teach "Gewu" at the Central University Hall Teachers College, and the audience was full, and the auditors crowded the classroom inside and outside, because Wei Yan's narration was simple and simple, telling the mysteries of the world in the language of the late Eastern Han Dynasty that were very simple and not discovered by the Eastern Han people, which opened their eyes.
After the students of the teacher training college learned it, they passed it on to the students of the middle school.
"History" and "Geography" no longer need to be compiled, and Wei Yan was too lazy to distort history and deliberately downplay the poison of foreign races to China like some historians in later generations, so he set "Historical Records" and "Notes on the Water Classic" as the reading textbooks for "History" and "Geography". When the time came, Wei Yan would compile a history and geography textbook.
The history that was not written after Ban Gu, Wei Yan intended to let Cai Yong's close disciple Wang Cang major in national history, and wrote it until Wang Cang's death, in the process of Wang Cang's compilation of national history, Wei Yan did not do any interference, he did not learn from Li Shimin, let alone some people in later generations, he tampered with history at every turn, and regarded history as a bitch dressed up by power.
Wei Yan was born because of history, so in terms of respecting history, no emperor can compare to him, even if Wang Cang's pen wrote about the bloody crimes he once had in his hands, Wei Yan just laughed at it.
Wei Yan also joined forces with Sima Hui, Hu Zhao and others, and selected more complex chapters from Confucian classics such as "Analects", "Mencius", and "Xunzi", as well as "Tao Te Ching", "Zhuangzi", "Mozi", "Sun Tzu", "Wei's Spring and Autumn" and other classics of Zhuzi, and compiled them into three books in order from easy to difficult, and provided them for the fifth to seventh grades of middle school as the most basic curriculum.
After graduating from the middle school, there is a cruel elimination examination, and this time the elimination rate is higher, ten to one, because after the middle school, there is only one central university hall that can be attended, and after the completion of the course in the central university hall, those who have passed the graduation elimination examination can have a very bright prospect.
Teachers who graduated from the Central University Hall Teachers College can become teachers, and teachers usually serve as pavilion masters, township officials, and county officials, and are in charge of local education, which is very respected, no worse than being other officials, and more than in terms of treatment and welfare.
Those who graduated from the military academy can usually go to the regular army to be a second commander, deputy captain or team member, which is directly the rank of middle samurai or above, and with the same merits, the students of the military academy are more likely to be promoted, if they want to stay in the place, they can also go to Tingbao to be a pavilion lieutenant or deputy village lieutenant, and the room for rise is greater than that of officers who enter the army through other means, because they are Wei Yan's students.
Those who graduated from the School of Political Science can usually go to the local pavilion to be the pavilion chief and pavilion chief, and a few excellent ones can go to the township, they have more room for promotion than the civil officials who come in through other channels, and basically they can get a chance to be promoted once in three years, the reason is very simple, they are Wei Yan's students.
Those who graduated from technical colleges usually went to work in the Ministry of Engineering, or in the General Armament Department of the Wei Army.
Those who graduated from the Academy of Literature and Art usually went to work in the Ministry of Rites, or in the Wei Army's Literary and Art Corps.
Those who graduated from the women's college can go to the general's mansion or the palace in the future to be a female official, they can go to the Wei Army's literary and art corps, or they can go to the primary school or middle school hall to be a teacher in charge of the teaching of music and art, of course, more students from the women's college choose to go home to teach their husbands and children, Wei Yan is very disappointed, but there is nothing to be done.
As for those children of the family, they mostly rely on their family background, and most of them go to Xu Du's Taixue to study, or go to follow Zheng Xuan, Guan Ning and other private schools, and disdain to enter the Central University Hall.
When they realized Wei Yan's strength and realized that the students of the Central University Hall were Wei Yan's protégés, the Central University Hall had closed the passage for the children of these families to enter, and the high-sounding reason was: "The children of the family should enter the Taixue, the Central University Hall is a poor and lowly child, and the children of the family will be humiliated by their status if they enter the University Hall." ”
Of course, the children of the family with excellent talents, high moral character, and distinctiveness, Wei Yan will still open the door to them for convenience, of course, such children of the family are rare, and it is mostly related to the character education of the head of the family.
While building the Central University Hall, Wei Yan didn't want to cause a backlash from the big families, so he arranged for some people who he could accept and whose talents and morals were more outstanding to make county orders and township orders, and some of the children of the family even became county taishou and county officials, such as Zhang Fan, a martial artist from Hanoi.
Zhang Fan's grandfather Zhang Xin once served as Situ, and his father Zhang Yan once served as a lieutenant and was quite famous. Zhang Fan has a quiet and happy personality, does not love glory, fame and fortune, does not pursue official positions, likes to help the poor, has no money to spare, and is very respectful to the poor and widows inside and outside. Wei Yan admired such a family very much, so he appointed him as the Taishou of Hedong County.
The duration of each college of the Central University Hall is three years, and there is no age limit for the students who can enter the school, as long as they can pass the entrance examination, whether they are 10 years old or 50 years old, they can be enrolled, of course, the number of places admitted is limited, because the regular military and political system can provide a limited number of positions for graduates of the Central University Hall.
Most of the students in the university hall entered the primary school hall at the age of five, the middle school hall at the age of ten, the university hall at the age of thirteen, and completed their studies at the age of sixteen.
Wei Yan felt that the primary, middle, and university education systems in the later world were so long, and it was completely unnecessary, because the education system was unreasonable, and the students wasted too much time learning useless things.
Wei Yan made sure that the things learned in the primary school, middle school, and university halls below can be used in practice, and those that cannot be used in practice for the time being are also basic subjects, unlike the regimes of some countries that let students learn more useless or even wrong things in order to whitewash the peace.