After the clouds and mist dispersed, the sun reappeared, and the rain on the sea came and went quickly.

The branches outside the window, the grass on the side of the road, there are already new shoots drilling, inadvertently winter slipped away, and another spring came.

In a slightly larger room on Crescent Island, cleanly tidy, Donner stood at the front, behind him a wooden frame with a two-square-meter rectangular plank, on which sat thirty-eight young pirates between the ages of six and sixteen.

They sat on the small bench, giggling and playing, Donner picked up a wooden stick the size of his index finger, knocked on the wooden board behind him, coughed lightly, and said helplessly: "Okay, Gina and Dick are not allowed to play, Donner is going to beat your handboard." ”

After consulting with Jasmine, Donner spent two days preparing something, and then gathered the little pirates scattered around the island to start teaching them to read and write.

Due to the limited materials, the blackboard behind it is all wood-colored, but with the black charcoal pen in your hand, you can still see it clearly.

It's just that these children have been negligent in discipline since childhood, so they are too playful, and Donner spent nearly an hour unable to calm them down.

It is estimated that Donner is too easy-going on weekdays, and when Gina heard his criticism, she just stuck out her tongue and continued to play with her friends.

Donner had no choice, so he deliberately stared at them with a tiger face and a serious state, but the effect seemed to be good, and some of the children began to quiet down after seeing Donner's expression, and even the atmosphere of the room became serious.

"Alright!" Donner looked around, and these children of different ages were arranged by him in the order of taller and shorter: "From today onwards, Donner will begin to teach you to read, and in the future, you will call me a teacher." ”

"Why are you literate, Brother Donner?" Gina wrinkled her nose and looked reluctant.

"That is, what is the use of literacy, in the future I will be a pirate and become the king of the sea. ”

The one who spoke was the oldest minor on Crescent Island, sixteen years old, named Tyrann, and if Donner hadn't offered to teach them to read and write, he would have picked up his scimitar and followed the adults to the sea this year.

In fact, this is the inevitable life path of every descendant of pirates when they become adults.

But on Crescent Island, Donner is here, and he's going to change that.

"Now the teacher is asking you a question. Donner kept his seriousness and held the whip in his hand: "If you see that goose outside, can any of you tell me if there is a goose first?"

"Brother Donner, I know, I know, there must have been a goose first. "The twelve-year-old little girl, Gina, has long golden hair, although she has a naughty personality, but Donner still likes this child, and thinks this little girl is very smart and spiritual.

"No, no, Gina, you're wrong, there are no goose eggs, where did the goose come from, those little geese, I saw it come out of the eggshell. Dick shouted.

"No, but I saw that the eggs were laid by geese?" the other child was confused.

"No...... right"

Donner laughed at their argument and didn't say anything to stop it.

This question is not only a philosophical question, but also a question about the origin of life and the universe, which is simply unanswered by a group of children who have never received a modern education and Darwinian evolution, even adults in this world.

Downer threw this question out, the first is to arouse the children's curiosity, and the second is to open their minds and let them learn to think.

Almost all the people in this world are imprisoned by the Holy See, and they must be called gods, and their code of conduct and ideology and morality are all guided by the Bible, and they never think of exploring the truth of things.

For them, everything is a creation of the Creation God and a gift from the Goddess of Light.

Downer's first lesson to these students was to teach them to argue, to think, to question.

"Brother Donner, then you tell us whether the goose came first or the egg came first. ”

Thirty-eight children disagree over this issue, with one side believing that the goose came first, and the other believing that the egg came first, and after the argument has not come to a conclusion, Gina asks Donner about it.

Donner smiled: "The teacher won't tell you this question, the teacher wants you to find the answer yourself." ”

"But we don't know the answer!"

"That's why the teacher wants to teach you to read. Donald paused, then continued: "When you are literate, and then the teacher will teach you other things, and then you will naturally find the answer in it!"

"There are many more such questions, such as why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, why do you always see the sails of the mast instead of the hull when you wait for the ship at the dock, why the fruit falls from the trees to the ground instead of flying in the air......"

These details have never been noticed or thought about by the children, but now that they are spoken from Big Brother Donner's mouth, they suddenly think of these questions.

"yes, Brother Donner, why is that?" someone began to ask, and that's good.

Donner was pleased: "The teacher hopes that you will find the answers to these questions by yourself. I don't know...... Do you have any such questions?"

The children thought about it seriously, and Gina was the first to speak: "Brother Donner, I thought, why does the lake water have no taste, but the sea water is salty?"

"Yes! I hope Gina can find out for herself. Donner praised the clever girl: "But in the future, when answering the teacher's questions, you must learn to raise your hand!"

"What about you! Do you have any other questions?" Downer continued.

"Teacher, why is the moon sometimes round and sometimes missing?"

"Also, why do flowers come in all kinds of colors and bear fruit?"

......

Slowly, the group of students began to think and ask some of the questions that were common around them.

Donner encouraged each one with his eyes, and when no one asked any more questions, Donner said, "You are all very smart and have found so many questions, these things, it doesn't matter if you don't know the answers now, we can collect them together, and there are other questions that can be added in the future." ”

"The teacher hopes that there will be 10,000 or even 100,000 of these questions, and then the teacher and you will combine these questions and write a book, called "100,000 Whys", and then work together to find the answers slowly, okay!"

"Good!" the students were enthusiastic and began to burst out with curiosity and interest.

It's a very good start, and Donner is happy: "So today, we're going to start with literacy, and one day, we'll unravel all 100,000 whys." ”

For the time being, Donner only teaches children literacy and arithmetic, starting with simple common words and numbers within ten, and as for the systematic teaching materials, they can only wait for the later to be slowly compiled.

Donner writes the words of this world on the wooden board one by one, and looks at the students below who are holding wooden sticks and carving on the sand table.

He felt that it was necessary to make paper.