At first, Sun Yuanqi didn't think about it, after all, "Notes on the Collection of Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" is the most influential classic in China since the Song and Yuan dynasties, and it is understandable to use the morning time to review and memorize. Remember, I waited around a few classrooms to find that something was wrong: all the students who read in the morning had yellowed old books in their hands. There is no need to ask, naturally they are all "Four Books", "Five Classics" and the like.

Seeing Sun Yuanqi frowning, Liu Shipei explained on the side: "Chinese classics, especially the "Four Books" and "Five Classics", contain infinite meanings, and they are often read and new. In the Analects, it is said that "the old is known to the new", "the day knows what it is going to do, and the month does not forget what it can do," and it is reasonable for students to get up in the morning to review. What's more, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other faces, the most important thing is to rely on understanding, memorization is ineffective, they can understand it without reading it now. ”。

Sun Yuanqi shook his head. The statement that science and engineering knowledge does not need to be memorized is completely false. In fact, all knowledge learning is based on memorization, and understanding and practice must be built on memorization. Especially in physics and chemistry, it is more necessary to be familiar with memorizing knowledge points and formulas, otherwise understanding and practice will become Versailles on the beach.

Seeing that there were more and more students, and class was about to start, Sun Yuanqi and his party left the Zhijun Normal School and came to the nearby Normal Training Institute.

The distance between the two schools is only a few hundred steps, and it can be reached within a few minutes' walk.

When I walked into the study center, it was already class time. But when I entered the door, I saw seven or eight middle-aged and young people sitting in the shade of a tree at the entrance of the school building, holding a cigarette pouch in their hands and chatting. When I got closer, I heard it clearly, and I saw the old master say impassionedly: "............ He writes well, according to the ability. However, there are always accidents, such as the examiner's good condition, such as the Gongyuan just leaking rain, and the article accidentally committing taboos. As the saying goes: Rest under the window, don't write in the field. That is to say, when it is time for you to work hard, don't think about fate, just work hard: but once you sit in the examination room, don't say that you work harder than others on weekdays, you have to obey fate and face reality.

"When the old man was young, he took the township test in Nanjing, and it was in the autumn house. As soon as he sat down, a man came to the side, and the messenger came and asked him for his name and place of origin. After replying, the officer said that he had dreamed of a woman holding an apricot blossom in her hand last night. The woman told him, "Tomorrow after someone in a certain county reports for duty, please tell him, and say that the apricot blossom is here." After speaking, he put the apricot blossoms on the number room. Isn't it a good omen that the name and place of origin are now in line with the verse 1? Who knows, when the man heard this, he was so shocked that he didn't even untie the four treasures of the study on his body, so he deduced that he was sick and left.

The old man was very curious, and he was thinking about it during the exam, and the article was not written. After appearing, he quickly found the man's fellow villagers to inquire, only to know that the scholar was talented, but his misconduct had defiled a servant girl named Xinghua, and when the woman became pregnant, he drove her out of the house, causing a corpse and two lives. As a result, the retribution was unpleasant, and this unjust soul went to the examination room to seek revenge.

"Therefore, if you want to be successful, you have to write the article well, but the key is not only the article. The predecessors had clouds, "one life, two luck, three feng shui, one four, four accumulations, yin virtue, and five reading." , very insightful! The big guys have read the sage articles for at least one or two decades, the four books and the five classics are naturally ripe, and the eight sharp weapons are also sharpened quickly. Who would have thought that the imperial court would issue an order to abolish the imperial examination, and all of our decades of hard work would be in vain! Isn't this fate? ”。

The surrounding audience resonated, and couldn't help but nod and sigh in unison: "Isn't it fate!" ”。

The old man took a deep breath of cigarette and spit it out leisurely, before he continued: "The old man heard from a friend in Beijing that Sun Xue, a new student in the province, has been studying in the West since he was a child, is a science and chemistry, and knows seven or eight English. But I don't know anything about things in my country, not to mention that I haven't read "Three", "Hundred", and "Thousand", that is, I can't even write words in a mess, and I miss my arms and legs. Do you say that when he comes to preside over the study and politics, will he come up with the title of the four books? As the saying goes, things gather by like, and people are grouped. When it comes to the exam, as long as the student knows how to make iron and how to burn glass, even if you write "depressed and written" all of them are flat with me, he will take you! …………”

Seeing that the old master began to criticize current affairs, Sun Yuanqi lost interest and walked around the school with Yang Du and Liu Shipei. Discover this called "Missionary Place". The teacher training school is almost the same as the Hanlin Academy in Beijing, chatting, playing chess, and reciting poetry............ Teachers and students of the whole school were divided into different interest groups and carried out a variety of recreational activities.

Sun Yuanqi's face was displeased: How can a teacher who has gone out from such a normal training center shoulder the important task of disseminating knowledge, promoting science and technology, and opening up people's wisdom? What is the meaning of existence of the Normal Training Institute?

After watching for a long time, the three of them were a little disappointed, and decided to change their itinerary and go to the Lianghu General Normal School on the shore of Dusi Lake in Yingfangkou first.

The Lianghu General Normal School was rebuilt in the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), Zhang Zhidong rebuilt the Lianghu Literature Higher School with a huge investment of 43,000 taels of Kuping silver. The school is large-scale, with five pillars of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, and plans to enroll 1,200 students, called "Thousand Normal Teachers". The duration of education is five years. In addition, there is an affiliated primary school and a higher primary school hall as a place for students to practice.

Perhaps because this is the highest normal school in Huguang area, Zhang Zhidong attaches great importance to it, and there are recruits standing guard with guns at the school gate.

The three of them have all gone through a big battle, and they look like students, so it is really easy to think about this kind of access control. At that moment, the public recommended Yang Du to come forward and negotiate with the soldiers in a strong Hunan accent, only saying that he was a student of the Zhijun Normal School, and came to the school to find a person named "Ren Junyi". of fellow villagers. The soldier was deceived, and the three of them easily entered the academy.

Compared with the previous two schools, the Lianghu General Normal School is obviously much more formal. At this time, during the class period, I can hear the sound of the teacher teaching and the sound of the students reciting from time to time in the scattered classrooms. After stopping and roughly distinguishing, there are Bible reading and lecture classes, arithmetic classes, education classes, naturalist classes, physics classes, and so on.

Sun Yuanqi, who was born in physics, naturally first went to the edge of the classroom where the physics class was taught, and heard the teacher inside say in a Chinese that was not very fluent: "............ There is a heavy study of strength, the weather is pressed on the top, the earth is pressed down, and the strength of the heavy is seen. There are two principles of movement and stillness, the static moves to move, and the moving obstructs the stillness, both of which require force. Knowing its reasoning, it is necessary to kill material resources to save manpower, help manpower to win material resources, and use it from infinity. There are seven labor-saving and power-boosting tools: one is the right rod, the second is the axle, the third is the pulley, the fourth is the inclined plane, the fifth is the sharp split, the sixth is the spiral, and the seventh is the gear. ”。

After listening to it for a long time, Sun Yuanqi realized that this guy was starting from Newton's first law and began to talk about mechanics.

But can't you speak well in the vernacular? Newton's first law translates as "any object that is not subject to any external force always remains in a state of uniform linear motion or a state of rest until an external force acting on it forces it to change this state". Will it be difficult? You have to drag the text! Even Sun Yuanqi had a lot of effort to understand, and he doubted that the students sitting below could understand.

After listening for a while, Sun Yuanqi came to the window of the naturalist class again, and listened to the stumbling inside of the conversation, which seemed to be the same as himself: "........., if the Qing Dynasty wants to break the blockade of European and American countries, gain independence and freedom, and implement a new policy, it cannot be achieved by relying only on the strength of its own country, and it is always necessary to recruit people of insight from abroad to offer advice and plan various undertakings around it. Looking around the universe, who can support the Qing Dynasty, who is it? Last year, I said that the soldiers in the Northeast were not afraid of sacrifice, fought bravely and bloodily, attacked Tsarist Russia, and recovered the rivers and mountains for the Qing Dynasty, which is a proof. Therefore, Daqing coal, iron and other minerals should also cooperate with this to jointly exploit them, so as to covet them from all Western countries! ”。

When Sun Yuanqi heard this, his heart was furious, and he wanted to enter the house and come out of the house. Before he could take a step, he was firmly pulled by Yang Du: "Baixi, it's not appropriate for you to go in!" ”。

“？” Sun Yuanqi was puzzled.

"You are a scholar, a dignified member of the second grade, do you want to go in and debate with him, and speak as fast as you can? Not long after you arrived in Hubei, you were in full view of everyone, and you had a quarrel with the population, where is your prestige? What will students think of you? Calm down! If you want to ask him to leave, isn't it a matter of one sentence? Why bother with this in vain! ”。

After listening to Yang Du's words, Sun Yuanqi suddenly stopped his impulse.

As a matter of fact, in order to export culture and develop pro-Japanese forces in China, he has been actively fighting for China's right to education. In the dumb year, the Imperial Education Association set up the "Qing State Dispatch Teacher Training Center". , specializing in training instructors sent to China. Similar institutions have been established by civil society. In the year of the year, a training center for female teachers sent by the Qing Dynasty was also established in Tokyo. Some universities directly recruit teachers and students who volunteer to come to China to serve as school teachers.

During the period at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of students came to China to teach, and the number reached five or six hundred at the peak, all over China. In the article "On the Educational Forces of the Chinese Textbooks" written by the Yue himself, he openly claimed: "There are three kinds of educational forces in China, namely, the teaching of the Chinese textbooks, the international students of the Chinese books, and the textbooks translated into Chinese. ”。

Fortunately, after so many years of hard work by Sun Yuanqi, the textbook translated into Chinese has collapsed in China, and the international students have also stayed in Jingshi University to study the five stresses, four beauties and three passions. (To be continued.)