Chapter 123: Official and Private Studies (Part II)

"Chen Xianling, private learning is actually the best choice to meet your ideas. Private schools are schools established by some wealthy people themselves, or schools run by some learned people themselves, and the size of such schools depends on the talents of the professors and their own financial resources. If the professors are highly educated, it will naturally attract many people to come and study, and there are also wealthy people who are willing to help expand the school building. And many private schools also rely on their own learning, but can create a school that has lasted for hundreds of years. And the talents cultivated by these schools are also countless, just like the Yingchuan Academy in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, through the cultural inheritance of generations, he has many talents. And all of this is a legacy left behind by the founders who founded the academy. Ning Shuyu said.

Of course, Chen Fei knew that in fact, the school, like the army, was very particular about inheritance. If an army is an army with brilliant historical achievements and an army with a good morals, then of course its combat effectiveness will last for a long time. And the same is true for schools, if a school can often appear talents, and he can continue to influence later teachers and students, so that the whole school learning style is getting better and better, but can cultivate more and more talents. And those schools with a good learning style can also attract many famous teachers to teach, or potential students to study, and then further enhance the reputation and status of the real school. This is also a question of the inheritance of the atmosphere, and it all depends on what kind of person the founder of the school is and what kind of positioning the school has.

Ning Shuyu continued: "Chen County Order, this kind of private learning actually has great benefits, and the biggest advantage is freedom and uncontrollability. The extent to which this kind of private education can be done depends on how much financial support you have, as long as the financial resources are sufficient, it can be extended to the whole country, and the government has nothing to do with you. And the wealth of private learning cannot be easily appropriated by the government. They can't directly influence private learning. Private schools do not want to be influenced by the government like official schools, and then they have to obey some rules of officialdom, which is very beneficial to the freedom of teaching. ”

"With these two benefits, Chen County's ideas can be realized gradually."

Chen Fei thought for a moment, and then asked: "Private learning, but how is the teaching ability of private learning?" How does it compare to government school? ”

Ning Shuyu took the initiative to bow again and said: "Chen County Order, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period of the pre-Qin Dynasty and the Warring States Period, the hundreds of schools of thought began to write books and speak respectively, and that time was the time of private learning, and it was also the most prosperous time. Even if it's a Confucian saint. In fact, he is also a private leader. At that time, the people actually preferred to study in private schools, but the official schools were neglected. ”

"During the Qin Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty hesitated to pay attention to the law, so private learning was suppressed. As for the revival of private learning during the Han Dynasty, it reached another peak in the Wei and Jin dynasties. In the pre-Sui period, official learning flourished, and private learning was also very prosperous. However, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty recently, the imperial court has attached great importance to official learning, and if my estimate of private learning is good, it should be suppressed. ”

Chen Fei listened to Ning Shuyu's words. It can be regarded as understanding the relationship between private learning and official learning in ancient China. In ancient China, it was actually a situation where private schools and official schools took turns to compete, and sometimes private schools could surpass official schools, so that many people came to study private schools. As for the official school, it sometimes flourishes, because after all, he represents the power of the government. And this actually depends on the times. And they are actually competing with each other, but they are also in the process of interdependence. The public schools and private schools that Chen Fei attended in later generations are actually the remnants of ancient official and private schools, but in later generations, it is the official schools that overwhelmingly overwhelm the private schools. Both government and private schools have their own merits. It is also an indisputable fact that in the Western world in later generations, that is, private schools have a higher status than public schools.

"But if I want to start a private school. So where do you start? Chen Fei asked.

Ning Shuyu said with certainty: "I thought we should start with ordinary Mengxue. Now the imperial court's Guozijian and Taixue Sixue have attached great importance to higher academic teaching, and all potential students are yearning to study in Guozijian. And if we rashly compete with high-level government schools, the final result can only be suppressed by the government. Therefore, if you want to start a private school, the best way is to start with a Mongolian school. Official studies generally attach importance to advanced learning, and pay little attention to Mongolian studies. Therefore, we might as well start with the study of ignorance, and then let more children get out of ignorance and embark on a path of true scholars. ”

Chen Fei heard that this so-called high-level official school and Mongolian school, in the words of later generations, is higher education and basic education. In ancient times, the government only attached importance to higher education and despised basic education, which was also the fault of later governments. Ning Shuyu's suggestion is to start with basic education first, and when basic education begins to a certain extent, and he has accumulated enough strength and students, then he can develop in the direction of middle and senior education. At that time, there were already a lot of Mengtong under his command who were studying together, and the government was not easy to suppress, so he could only let it go. In any case, it is generally not a problem to break the law and rebel, or to preach doctrines that are not suitable for the times.

This process of starting from basic education and then gradually moving towards higher education is actually the same as the process of the rise of private schools in later generations. Later generations also started with private primary schools for basic education, then gradually moved to private middle schools, and finally private universities.

However, Chen Fei believes that private schools in ancient times are still beneficial to later generations, that is, the so-called scholars in ancient times did not care about the difference between private schools and public schools, and those teachers would not go to public schools for the sake of a so-called establishment. Therefore, in ancient times, private schools and public schools all started from the same starting point and competed at the same starting line. Even if it is a public school, it has to charge tuition, so the private public school is of little significance to the ancient people. Moreover, the ancient imperial examination did not discriminate too much between private and public offices. Therefore, whether it is a private or public graduate, it can be regarded as the same starting point competition, which also makes the ancient private schools continue to develop. In later generations, those private schools, as soon as they came out, meant that they lagged behind public schools and were discriminated against to a certain extent.

"So how should we hire a teacher? Money is not a problem, but Mr. Teaching is hard to find! Chen Fei said. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)