This Egret Academy is located in the north of the town, and the people living in the north are all high-ranking officials and nobles, or literati and scholars, and the high families in the town are basically concentrated near this Egret Academy.

In fact, in addition to the three major academies in Chongyang Town, there is also a clan school run by the Huang clan, that is, a private school established by the Huang clan themselves.

Although the faculty is certainly not as good as the three major academies, all the children of the Huang clan can be admitted for free.

Regardless of the era, reading is a very important thing, and the cost of studying in this era is relatively expensive.

Therefore, there is such a strange scene in the three major academies in the town, there are only three or four students surnamed Huang in each academy, and all of them are the best students surnamed Huang in the town.

After all, not every family of those Huang clansmen is rich, and some people from ordinary families are still willing to choose genealogy.

This is also why the old Ye family, obviously the conditions are quite average in Xiushui Village, but their lives are not very rich, and they can only be regarded as having more than enough food and clothing.

Because Old Man Ye has never been stingy in spending money on his children's education. Most of the money earned by the Ye family was used for the expenses of their sons and grandchildren going to school.

Even Ye Leek Ya's cousins also went to the women's school when they were young, so that they could read and do arithmetic, and Old Man Ye would also pay half of the cost of his granddaughter's education.

Fortunately, today's saints attach great importance to the cultivation of literati, and each school will also serve a free lunch at noon, although it may not be much good food, but you can eat it to your heart's content.

In addition, every month, the top 10 poor students in the monthly class exam will also have a ration of "half a liter of rice" every day. Monthly class rewards are based on the results of each exam and will be cashed out after the exam.

Moreover, it also gives poor outstanding students 30 Wen per month to anoint the fire, the so-called "anointing money", which is the cost of the students' study period, and the ancients commonly known as "the maintenance fee".

Outstanding results can also be rewarded with "Reward Money", "Bonus Money", etc. The top four students in the college's annual examination each are awarded "two strings of copper coins, which is 200 wen." ”

The standard for this poor student will be arranged by the dean of the academy according to the list provided by the teacher below, and these expenses and rewards are all issued by the imperial court.

Once the Daewoo Dynasty's seowon was opened, it was open to the lower classes of society and the private scholars. There is no threshold for college admission, and there is no household registration restriction for admission, as long as there is an aspiration to study, regardless of wealth or poverty, regardless of region, they can enroll, that is, the "education without class" advocated by Confucius Sage.

"Dagong without class" has always been the school-running principle of the college, and it is also the sublimation of the school-running concept of "education without class". Although there is no threshold for admission, there are still admission requirements, and the more famous colleges have a relatively high level of education and quality because of the large number of applicants, the "enrollment standards" are also very strict.

The assessment of comprehensive quality tests, including academics, is not enough to study well. For example, Ziyang Academy in Chong'an County, it is not something that can be entered casually, and the minimum requirement is to lift people.

Many civilians are still very grateful for this, and feel that the current saint is a rare Ming monarch, but the majority of Han people in the Daewoo Dynasty have not been able to fully accept this Guanwai emperor who stepped into the Central Plains Continent with iron hooves.

The Egret Academy is very large, covering an area of more than a dozen acres. With as many as 300 students, it is the largest school in Chongyang Town.

This is actually very different from the ancient school in Ye Leya's impression of later generations, because she thought that it was very difficult for people in ancient times to go to school, and it was already very good to have fifty or sixty students in a school.