Early the next morning, the Fog City Engineering College officially opened. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first class after the opening of the academy was naturally taught by Dean Donner. In the classroom, more than 400 students sat in a circle, surrounding Donner in the middle.

Because of the difference in height, the human students can only sit back, but fortunately, the classroom is closed on three sides, the acoustics are good, and each student sits upright and silent, so Donner can speak alone, and everyone can hear clearly.

Although they sit in the same class, the level of dwarf students is much higher than that of human students, even if they only look at basic writing skills, regardless of professional knowledge - according to Natia, there is no unique language in the Far North (they originally migrated from Middle-earth), and the three largest languages of Middle-earth, including Western languages, were made compulsory at the beginning of the country.

You must know that Donner's engineering attainments have long been famous in the Far North Country, so these 300 dwarf students who came here are almost the most elite young generation in the entire Far North Country; in comparison, the 100 human children in the classroom are all ordinary peasant children who have only been in school for one year.

It's like a group of second-graders from Hope Elementary School in the mountains sitting together with graduates of key high schools in the country (interestingly, the human children who look like high school students are only at the lower elementary level, and the gnomes who look like they are only seven or eight years old are already eighteen or nineteen years old). This situation is a challenge for these human children, and it is also a challenge for Donner.

Therefore, at the beginning of the school year, he had already made a plan: he would only have one class a day, and the rest of the time, let his students take care of it first. As for his students, of course, the living sisters Elemanda and Arimia are alive.

To Donner's surprise, Lucia followed him as he set out from Misty Town early in the morning - the princess was clearly grateful for the defeat she had received from the previous night.

As a result, the composition of the classroom is even more complex.

But that didn't affect Donner's original plans.

In the face of a group of students with very different degrees, he could only talk in generalities. In just one hour, he first introduced the most commonly used mechanical parts with the help of these parts made by dwarf craftsmen, and then talked about several forms of mechanical transmission in combination with these parts, interspersed with some simple diagrams to illustrate how these forms are used in windmills and clockwork elevators.

All in all, the language is vivid and the examples are engaging, which basically accomplishes Donner's goal: to arouse the interest of the students.

In such a lesson, the human students will not be incomprehensible, and the dwarf students will be able to listen to it with relish because there are two fresh examples.

Before the end of the class, Donner asked the dwarf students a question to ponder: Why do involute gears rotate at a uniform speed, and what is the principle?

He came up with this question, on the one hand, because the involute gear of this world was "invented" by him, and it is more appropriate to use this to bluff people, and on the other hand, he wanted to see how far the basic geometry of the Far North Country had reached.

At this point, the first day of the dwarf trainees is over, and the rest of the time is for them to complete the reflection question.

However, the human students have to take two classes, one by Ellimanda and one by Alimia, and after each class, the human students will rate the two sisters for the day's lesson. This is Donner taking advantage of the Lori sisters' competitive mind to ensure the quality of their teaching.

On the first day, for the sake of attention, Donner sat in on the two sisters' lectures.

Although the language is a little naïve, and there are too many knowledge points and too difficult, it can be seen that the two sisters have prepared carefully.

After class, they followed Donner's example and gave two reflection questions to a hundred human students. They are how to calculate the circumference of a circle, and what the gear ratio means.

The previous question was written by her sister Ellie Manda, and the answer was just a copy of the formula in her class, and there was no need to think about it at all - whether it was Middle-earth, the Magic Continent or the Far North, pi could be accurate to eight decimal places, and you didn't need to think about it to know that this must be the data left by Peter.

The latter question was written by her sister Elimia, and it looked like a little thinking question, but the answer was the same as what she mentioned in class.

In terms of feedback collected by Danny after class, Ellie Manda's class was more popular - Donner suspects that this is simply because Allymia is more verbose than her sister. However, Arimia seems to be holding back her strength to win back the next day.

Donner is generally satisfied with the two sisters' teachings, at least their attitudes and enthusiasm are good. With these two helpers, Donner only needs to make a simplified version of the syllabus for them to refer to, and he can save himself a lot of time—there are so many things he has to do that he can't fully devote himself to this college.

At the end of the three classes, it was close to noon, and the students either went back to the dormitory or stayed in the classroom to discuss quietly.

Danny brought Donner the home addresses of the enrolled students.

"How did you feel on the first day?" asked Donner.

"It's much more interesting than drawing magic primitives!" Danny looked excited: "It turns out that such a complex machine is built one by one with such simple parts, I really didn't expect it." ”

"The parts are simple, but the combinations are complex. In a month or two, the first machine will be assembled in the Fog City project, and I will show you there...... If there is any problem during this time, just tell me, whether it is in study or life. When Donner said this, he beckoned Sister Lori over and said with a smile: "In addition to class, you two little teachers are also responsible for answering students' questions." ”

When the Lori sisters heard the word "little teacher", their faces were full of pride, and they naturally spoke in unison......

Well, the reality is that Elimanda replied first, "Mmmm, teacher, don't worry, we'll take care of it." ”

Arimia replied, "Yes, yes, we will be very responsible!"

Donner remained in the class for a while, waiting until Wesley shuffled by with heavy steps before stopping him.

"Well, here's the list. He stuffed Wesley with the list that Danny had called up.

Wesley limbly took the list, "I feel like I'm going to faint on the road before I get to Misty Town." ”

Donner shook his head with a smile, "Then don't go back to Misty Town yet, I'll take you to see a place." He turned back to the class and shouted, "Lucia is going with you, too?"

Lucia was writing and drawing on a blank piece of paper with her head covered, and it took about a second or two for Donner to realize that Donner was calling out to herself, and she looked up "Huh?", still with a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Oh! right away!" Lucia looked down and wrote a few more strokes before she gathered away the pile of paper covered in notes.

The three of them walked a little further away from the class, and Donner asked, "It's not difficult for you, is it?"

"There are still some things I don't understand...... Lucia smiled naturally, not embarrassed because she didn't understand. Since listening to Donner's class, she has learned that engineering is a world more colorful than magic, and in addition to being amazed by Donner, she also seems to see a new world open to her.

Donner looked at her devotion, and suddenly remembered that those engineering girls from the university in his previous life had come. If there were classmates like Lucia at that time, even if it was just a few glances from afar every day, college life would be much more exciting, right? )