96. Credit system

When Zhang Chao forcibly passed the plan on de-administrative, the news about the selection of honorary doctors and honorary teaching assistants was also issued. And this news immediately made many ordinary teachers of the four disciplines extremely excited, they are not good at drilling camps on weekdays, so naturally they will not have the opportunity to become officials. And if you can't be an official, you can't increase your income, which is a very important fact. For the profession of officials, it is the rank that determines the salary income, and if the grade is not promoted, then the salary cannot be improved. And the vast majority of them are not scholars, they have no family land to feed them back, and they are not able to use power to profit for their families. So it's very difficult for them to progress in officialdom, so that their income can rarely be raised. Especially in the Qingshui Yamen of the Four Sects, if you want to be corrupt, you don't have a chance to be corrupt!

So after hearing that Zhang Chao gave them the title of honorary doctor and honorary teaching assistant, everyone also hoped to get it. After all, they are all taught in the four schools, and everyone hopes to get the opportunity to become this honorary doctor and honorary teaching assistant, as long as they become this honorary doctor and honorary teaching assistant, their monthly income can be increased by at least five times, and more than ten times. This is not a joke, even if the Tang Dynasty was only a nine-rank official, there were at least seven or eight thousand of various incomes converted into future generations. And this income that only officials can have, ordinary scribes and ordinary teachers of four schools do not have this income, and many benefits are not included, so it is not bad to convert to one or two thousand per month, and the proportion of official and civilian income in the Tang Dynasty is indeed much higher than that of later generations. And many so-called government workers are not the same as civil servants in later generations, and the status of government workers in ancient times is very low, and their income is not high, only the so-called "knife and pen fee". It cannot be compared with the civil servants of later generations. So this income suddenly increased by five to ten times, and this is a benefit that countless people want to get.

And because of the need for chief student evaluation, if the student evaluation is not good, it will not be able to get further evaluation, so during this time, everyone has begun to please students and began to give serious lectures in the hope of gaining the attention of students. Then give yourself a good review. At this time, the students of the four schools found themselves suddenly changed from "grandson" to "uncle", in the past, the teachers of the four schools were not very serious in teaching, and their attitude towards the students was not too good, but now the teachers have begun to choose to teach seriously, and the students who ask questions are seriously answered, so that these students feel that they are respected.

However, Shui didn't expect that Zhang Chao's second season reform punch was also beaten again.

"Now. I think we can have a credit system. In our four courses, we implement a credit system, so that students can choose their own courses, and then let them take classes freely on their own. Zhang Chao said.

"What is the credit system?" One of the doctors asked.

Zhang Chao immediately replied: "The credit system is to divide the credits of each course according to different standards, and then divide the credits according to compulsory courses and elective courses after calculating the credits. Compulsory courses are courses that students must learn and cannot afford not to learn. Compulsory courses are the main courses that students must study. If you do not pass any compulsory courses, you will not be able to obtain the qualification for graduation, and you will not be eligible to be recommended to participate in the imperial examination. The next is electives. Electives are all about letting students choose what they want to learn. Then the total credits of all courses in the required courses and the total credits of the courses in the electives met the standard. That is what will allow them to successfully apply for graduation. If we choose to let some of their outstanding people take the imperial examination after applying for graduation, and the other part of them will be awarded a graduation certificate of four courses, which means that they have completed their studies in our four schools and can go to fend for themselves. ”

What Zhang Chao wants to do is to implement the credit system of later generations, which is a very popular teaching method in later universities. The degree of freedom for students is very high. And the flexibility of learning is very great, which is of great benefit to students. In Zhang Chao's plan, Simenxue will be a "university" in the future. If there are several elementary schools in each state, and one secondary school in each province, then the graduates of these high schools will eventually be sent to four schools. In this way, the four disciplines are one university.

Zhang Chao believes that although the credit system is relatively free, they can pass the test of the primary and secondary schools they planned, and then they are all people who love learning very much, and they should not be passive and disgusted with learning. The elimination rate of primary and secondary schools planned by himself is extremely cruel, and he can kill from so many difficult processes, which is definitely the elite of the elite, and he is definitely a person who is eager to learn to read and change his fate.

Therefore, it is very easy to implement the credit system in the four courses, and I am not afraid that those students will not work hard.

"Aren't you making the students so indulgent? Such indulgence, then how can this be a strict teacher? And how can students choose to learn by themselves when they are taught in such a dispersed way? And, if you do that, how do you assign them teachers? Jia Wanchun said.

Jia Wanchun is also persistent in making trouble for Zhang Chao, anyway, he will oppose Zhang Chao's proposal, he is already Zhang Chao's enemy. Since Zhang Chao snatched his identity as the chief doctor, he naturally has a bad relationship with Zhang Chao. And Zhang Chao was his student in the past, and now Zhang Chao actually fell out with him, which made him very angry. This made her feel that her students had betrayed him, and Zhang Chao was a rebel in his eyes. So now, of course, he won't give Zhang Chao a good look, and obviously sprayed him to death.

"Strict teachers make high apprentices, should teachers beat and scold students at will?" Zhang Chao asked.

But Jia Wanchun also said: "Shouldn't you beat and scold students? ”

"Hmph, what can you do when you beat and scold like this? It's useless to beat and scold students, can you beat and scold students so that students can accept your words? If the student doesn't understand, then it's useless for you to scold? Why can't you find some questions about your own teaching methods, and then you can really understand what the students want, so that everyone can understand each other. If you don't know what your students need, you're going to beat and scold them at every turn. What's the use of that? Zhang Chao asked.

Zhang Chao really has to obey these ancient teachers. Because these ancient teachers all advocated that strict teachers produce high apprentices, education must be strict, and students are often beaten and scolded, which is absolutely forbidden in later generations. According to later investigations, beating and scolding students not only failed to make students study hard and fly. On the contrary, it will cause them huge psychological problems. This will definitely not be good for students in the future, so Zhang Chao is resolutely opposed to being rude to students. But he doesn't directly object, he has his own methods, so that teachers can avoid beating and scolding students. For example, this credit system is also a very good means to curb beating and scolding students.

"It's better to do less in the future when you beat and scold students." Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao went on to say: "The core of the credit system is actually course selection. Each compulsory course is also taught by different teachers according to the student's own choice. Students can choose their own instructors, and the instructors will start the lecture according to their own subjects. Each time, the students themselves come to the class. Then I went back after the lecture. And this process is not too complicated, that is, you choose the teacher's course, and then you all come to listen to the class, and then you can go to the course offered by other teachers. The teacher's teaching time will also be made public, so that students can arrange their own time to listen to the class according to their needs. ”

"What if you can't finish the course within three years?" Someone asked right away.

Zhang Chao replied: "It's very simple, if you don't complete it within three years, you won't be able to pass the exam." That's what makes them longer. They are allowed to work and study part-time, and they can work and earn money while studying in four of us. It is not necessary to concentrate on studying in three years. ”

"Is that okay?" The Ph.D. in doing it was very unexpected.

Because for these doctors, it was the first time they had heard of this method of reading. Part-time work and study, which used to be reading while doing farm work, and then this kind of reading was mainly popular in those low-level academies, and the four schools did not offer this method of reading.

"But don't we teach according to our own teams in the future?"

Zhang Chao replied: "Yes, we will not have a fixed team in the future." Everyone studies on their own, and then after completing enough credits, they can apply for graduation. Then students who have obtained a certain number of grade points, we can ask them to recommend the district to participate in the imperial examination. ”

"Ridiculous, what is this kind of student without a class? Give them the freedom to learn on their own? If so, isn't it too loose? Jia Wanchun snorted.

According to the teaching methods commonly used by later generations. There are three types of them. One is the tutor system, which is the so-called elite education. The mentorship system is a small number of students, and a tutor is sent to teach them specially, not only to teach them the curriculum, but also to be responsible for their life and guide them in all aspects. And this kind of one-on-one teaching, or small class teaching, or something like that, was later called. This model is the oldest and first model in China, and the oldest in China is this kind of master teaching, and then specially accepting a few apprentices to apprentice. This model is very inheritive, and since ancient times, the master has carefully taught the apprentice, and the apprentice is even the heir of the master's career. This method of education is the most efficient, and students learn well. But the price is that one tutor can't teach too many students, and one tutor can't afford too many students, so he can only concentrate on cultivating a few.

Later, a kind of class system of teaching was invented, which was commonly used in later generations, and now the four schools are also like this. The so-called class formation system of teaching means that students are organized according to a certain scale, dozens or even hundreds of people are in a class, and then teachers of various subjects are allowed to teach. After the implementation of a certain teaching plan, some "excellent students" are also selected in the class group to assist in management, so that teachers can also manage easily.

This group model is also a way to teach students on a larger scale, allowing limited teacher resources to teach students. This method is also the most commonly used method in education for more than 1,000 years, because it saves teacher resources and allows a few teachers to take on more educational tasks. This has been developed by generations of teachers themselves, and the model of the group is to allow as many students as possible to participate in learning, and to spread the cost of education as evenly as possible.

Of course, this approach is unlikely to have a better educational effect than the required tutoring system. The tutor system is of course the best mode of education, but it is only suitable for aristocratic education, and it is suitable for people with good economic conditions. As for the ordinary poor economic conditions. You can only choose the learning methods of these team modes. But this method is also good, he can get as many students as possible, so that more students can participate in reading.

Education can only become more and more popular, and only universal education is the way to tap talents as much as possible. In the end, the mentorship system can only produce elites, and in order to maintain their privileges, these elites will also choose to let the elites teach their offspring. Very few people are willing to go out and teach non-blood relatives.

So don't look at these group teaching methods as good as the tutor system, but they can get as many students as possible to participate in the study. For some geniuses, as long as there is an opportunity to learn, it is also a chance for them to soar. But if he didn't study, he wouldn't be able to change his destiny for the rest of his life. So the team system is such a thing as casting a wide net, and then allowing those excellent people to stand out themselves. As for the mentorship system, that is, all resources are concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, and those excellent people are in order to maintain their own family inheritance and protect their own generational interests. Naturally, they are reluctant to give these educational resources to others, so they are just willing to leave these educational resources to their own descendants.

This is the biggest difference, the education model of the group is to cultivate a lot of poor children, and it is an important means to let more poor students have the opportunity to study. And those tutor-based education models are easy to be monopolized by those scholars, and then leave excellent educational resources to their own families.

The lower the cost of education, the more it will be for universal education. For ordinary children from poor families with poor economic conditions, it is naturally impossible for them to enjoy the same treatment as those wealthy families. the same educational resources. What can be done is to share these costs as much as possible, so that more people can bear the cost of education. This education is not so much teaching. It's better to give them a chance. Education is not to educate everyone to become a genius, but only to give them a chance, a chance to change their own destiny.

As an education, it is naturally impossible to expect all students to become top talents, nor can we expect that all of them will be able to work hard for the revival of the family in the future, as is the case with those elite educations. And these poor educations are just to give them a chance. Let them change their destiny and class through their own learning. This is also an opportunity, if you seize it and work hard, it will be considered as allowing them to change their destiny. If you can't catch it yourself, or if you are really incompetent, then it will be a matter of seeing. And the education of the Hereafter. The core is not to make everyone a talent, just to give them a chance.

Later generations said that reading changes fate, and this sentence is enough to show that if you don't read, you won't have the opportunity to change your fate. Therefore, if you don't have the opportunity to study, then maybe a genius will be completely buried, and then you will be a farmer facing the loess with your back to the sky all your life, unable to change your profession, and then you will be a tenant farmer who is oppressed and whose rights and interests are not protected for generations. And with the opportunity to read, that is the opportunity to change your destiny. Reading just gives you a chance to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to change their identity, and if you can't catch it, you can't blame others.

"If you don't have your own teacher, what can you do? Why do we have to complete the four courses within three years, and can't we let the students learn on their own? As long as we allow ourselves to learn independently, why do we need to supervise our own learning? As long as they can study their own, then I think that is the most important means. If we force them to learn to read, then we can't have too good results. What's more, these students of ours are all over the age of thirteen, and if they can't learn on their own, then they are destined to have little hope. In this way, we can let them work and study on their own, do their own things, and then arrange their own study time, and then wait for the time to come to the exam, so that they can get credits if they pass the exam. As long as we get credits, we can all accumulate them gradually. In the future, we will not be forced to complete the reading process of the four subjects within a certain period of time, but will let them arrange the learning process by themselves, and then they can complete it by themselves within nine years. Zhang Chao said.

This flexible model of the credit system can effectively save education costs. If the school year system is followed in the past, students will inevitably be allowed to study on a full-time basis, and full-time study must have strong financial strength. If there is not enough economic accumulation, it is impossible to study part-time. And this credit system allows them to arrange their own study time, and then let them all study at the same time, and then according to their own financial strength to find a job, and get income for their own study. This will definitely have the advantage of prolonging the financial pressure of learning to read for a longer period of time, allowing more people to share the educational costs of these studies, and then more people can participate in learning.

"I object, how the college arranges teachers, it should be arranged by our college, how can the students choose by themselves? In this way, what is the good choice for our four courses, should we let our teachers of the four courses be like buying vegetables in the market, and let the students choose by themselves? What is this system? Jia Wanchun said angrily.

Soon, other doctors couldn't get rid of the old thinking, that is, they thought that they were teachers of the four disciplines, and they should be arranged by their superiors, rather than letting students choose by themselves. If the students are allowed to choose their own teachers, then the teachers are like the dishes in the vegetable market, and the students are allowed to choose their own dishes, which makes them very uncomfortable. According to their thinking, it should be the official dispatch of teachers from the four schools, and then the students must accept it no matter what, and they cannot refuse. If you dare to refuse, it is also disobedience to the master's order.

And these officials of the four schools are also very arrogant, obviously thinking that they should have the power to control the fate of their students, and that it is their power to send any teachers to teach. And for those classes that you like, you can send excellent teachers to teach. And those who don't like the class also prevent them from being taught by excellent teachers. As for how to allocate the resources of excellent teachers in this process, then this must be allocated according to who gives more benefits. This kind of educational resource is also the power of those doctors in the four disciplines, so no one is willing to give it up.

However, if Zhang Chao's method of course selection is followed, students can choose their own teachers, and then these officials of the four schools will not be able to obtain special rights, which is of course difficult for them to accept.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, they think that since ancient times, it has been the master who chooses the students, and now they actually let the students choose the teacher, which makes them very unhappy. Since ancient times, only those rich and noble families have been able to choose teachers by themselves, and it is good for ordinary students to be able to study, so why can they pick the fat and thin? If these poor students can also choose their own teachers, where will the faces of those teachers go? At that time, they must not be able to accept it, so that they feel that their face is worthless. Any student can choose their own teacher just like they can choose their own dishes in the vegetable market. If it's a rich family, it's just that, and now the poor students actually have this power, which makes them feel that their identity has been insulted, and they have changed from a leader to a servant.

"Hmph, bandit logic! I tell you, the credit system must be implemented, if you oppose it, you can go to the emperor to impeach me, otherwise I will manage the four schools, understand? Zhang Chao said this, and left immediately, ignoring the thinking of these guys.

These guys are simply robber logic, so Zhang Chao won't say anything more to them. (To be continued......)