Chapter Twenty-Nine: Magicians and Civilization Stagnation
Like Hermione, as a time-traveler, Clark did not stay at home like those wizarding children, he also went to Muggle primary schools in England, not only to aristocratic schools, but also to excellent grades.
So of course he knows that this side is not the so-called "happy education" as many people say. In other words, in aristocratic schools, Muggle children were still able to receive a good education.
At least in Muggle elementary schools, they teach a systematic content, but in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, what Clark and they learn is more like loose sand.
Spells, Transfiguration, potions, astronomy, herbs, and the history of magic, each of which is independent of each other, has no internal connection and no logical system.
The so-called "learning" of the young wizards is nothing more than waving their wands in imitation of the cat's drawing, imitating the pronunciation of the spell, and then forming instinctive reactions in practice.
In this way, every time you learn a spell, you need to write down a spell, a gesture, a magic technique, even the most clever brain, how many spells can you memorize?
Charms are linguistics, but it's not just linguistics!
Anyway, among the wizards that Clark knew, the more powerful elites were also proficient in mastering seven or eight commonly used spells.
Even most adult wizards are proficient in using two or three kinds of spells, which is already very good. Isn't there news that many of the staff of the Ministry of Magic can't cast an iron armor spell?
"So there's something wrong with the way Hogwarts teaches!" At this point, Clark began to boldly criticize the way Hogwarts was taugurated.
"At least in my opinion, the wizards produced by this type of education are no different from chimpanzees who can use tools, they all have skills and no way."
"It's like a skilled worker, who can meet the needs of life and work, and occasionally has a flash of inspiration, and with his rich experience, he can also invent something new, even a very ingenious invention, but they don't understand the laws behind it."
"Originally, this was nothing, you see Harry, and the other young wizards who are also from Muggle families, aren't they all used to this way of teaching?"
Clark looked at Hermione and complimented, "But you're so smart, Hermione, as smart as you are, you've come a long way in Muggle education, you should have been a scholar of magic, and now you're asked to be a magic mechanic, of course you'll be grumpy." ”
That's it!
Clark's words were like a bolt of lightning that dispelled the fog in Hermione's mind, and she finally knew why she had been feeling irritable and grumpy for a while.
This is Hermione's "cognitive impairment", in fact, this problem is not a big problem, just look at the original book, under the influence of Harry and Ron's "friendship", Hermione finally gave up the way of reason, and began to transform into a more skilled magic mechanic.
"Maybe it's just because we're too young to be taught that much in school?"
After all, she had feelings for Hogwarts, and in the face of Clark's criticism, Hermione couldn't help but retort.
However, Clark's words instantly left her speechless.
"Don't tell me you didn't read the textbook for your senior year ahead of time, is there a fundamental theory of magic on it? Did you learn how to study magic? No, there's just harder spells and more complicated potions, that's all! ”
Seeing that Hermione was silent, Clark began to guide her.
"So have you ever wondered why Hogwarts is taught this way? As the only school of magic in the whole of the UK, it is more like a school of magic. The little wizard graduated after only seven years of study, and there is no place in the entire wizarding world for them to continue their education? ”
"Is it true that higher knowledge is not suitable for widespread dissemination? It's like a master with an apprentice? ”
Hermione's words made Clark stunned, and he praised the other party for being smart, and the girl guessed something with just a few words.
Clark nodded, then shook his head again.
"What you said is just one aspect, today's high-end magic is indeed in the form of schools and families, but this is more similar to the inheritance of the craftsman's apprenticeship system and family craftsmanship."
"If you look at the universities in the Muggle world, that's the way magic should be. But if you look at "Research on the Development of Modern Witchcraft", when the development of the Muggle world is changing with each passing day, science has penetrated deep into the atom and quantum, and the line of sight has been light years away, the civilization of the wizarding world is still like the Middle Ages, falling into stagnation. ”
Yes, if you put aside the fantasy color given by magic, the wizarding world is not much different from the Middle Ages.
But theoretically, as long as any wizard wants to understand Muggles, they can easily obtain a lot of Muggle information, and get great benefits from it, when they know that they can bring themselves a large amount of gold Galleons with one magic, they can control Muggle big business, get all kinds of materials, not to mention that the things in the Muggle world are useless to wizards, after all, they all live in the same world, and the Aurors, who are only a hundred or ten people, have no time to stop them.
The wizards of the wizarding world and the Muggles of the normal world, who are essentially close to each other and have no barriers to information exchange, have developed into two groups that are almost disconnected, and it is completely inconceivable that such an otherworldly world and the mortal world are separated - this is simply impossible and unscientific!
If it was just one person, there were a lot of fortuitous factors that constrained them from participating in the interests of the Muggle world, but expanding the sample to a group of thousands of people - there was no such thing as an accident, and it was inevitable that such a person would try to come into contact with Muggles.
And the wizards who are deeply involved in the Muggle world will have a great impact on the wizarding world, so the wizarding world should never be like this today, at least the goblins of Gringotts will improve their financial system with great enthusiasm. You must know that in a certain fanfiction, there is a time-traveler who controls the entire Gringotts with financial knowledge.
But that didn't happen!
Even Muggle enthusiasts like Clark's uncle, Arthur Weasley, were only curious about Muggle objects, adding a Traceless Stretch and Levitation Charm to a car, and he hadn't developed a magic engine.
Hermione listened to Clark's words, comparing the development of the wizarding world and the Muggle world, and couldn't help but nod, admitting that he had a point, but it also gave her new doubts.
"And what caused all this?"