Chapter 242: Wynne Academy
If you want to talk about the transformation of Min County, you have to talk about one place, that is, Huai'en Temple.
The prostitute monks of Huai'en Monastery were all burned to death in a fire.
The monk is dead, but the temple is left.
As far as those monks do, it is not a pity to die, and those things that are done are the anger of people and gods.
The monk is guilty, but the temple is not.
Such a thing as praying to God and worshiping Buddha is not all feudal superstition, but more of a belief.
There are two sides to things, feudal superstition is unacceptable, but people cannot lose their faith.
Faith is the bottom line of morality.
A person who sincerely asks God to worship the Buddha will have a sense of reverence for the gods and Buddhas, and then when he is going to do a bad deed, he will think in his heart whether he will be punished by the gods and Buddhas if he does this, and this will form an invisible moral binding force.
There is nothing wrong with the Huai'en Temple itself, and it is a pity that it is abandoned like this.
A place with a large area and ready-made buildings should be used.
This gave Pei Yun an idea and asked the Nanshan engineering team to renovate Huai'en Temple.
Only one main hall for worshipping the Buddha was preserved, and the rest of the hall was renovated and used for a new purpose.
This new purpose is – to teach.
Yes, under Pei Yun's planning, Huai'en Temple became Huai'en Academy.
In Daqin, reading is the treatment of the upper class, and only by reading can you have the opportunity to really get ahead.
At the same time, the cost of reading is also as high, just buying books, buying pen, ink, paper and inkstone, this is not something that ordinary families can afford.
There is also a saying that useless is a scholar.
If a scholar can get ahead, it will be a matter of leaping into the dragon gate and glorifying his ancestors.
But the road of reading is like crossing a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops.
In the end, only a few people were able to pass.
Others will fall in pain.
If a scholar can't get over the road of reading, what can he do?
Let him do farm work? Do some handiwork?
First of all, he doesn't have such skills.
Even if it is farm work, if you don't have the physical strength and have not learned, you can't do anything.
When a scholar puts down a book, he is powerless, he can read, and he doesn't know anything else.
In the eyes of readers, farm work and handicraft work are things that inferior people do, and it is more uncomfortable to bend down to do these things than to kill yourself.
In a simple sentence, I don't have the ability, and my vision is still high.
Reading is a way out, but if you can't get out, it's a dead end.
Of course, this is limited to ordinary people, and if you have a lot of money, you will naturally not have such confusion.
Therefore, reading people is not something that ordinary people can afford, but ordinary people can only read if they want to get ahead, which has become a dead knot.
In fact, there is a way to solve this dead knot, and that is to reduce the cost of education.
But this is more of a fool's dream.
If we want to reduce the cost of education, one of the first problems to be solved is the resources of education.
Take Min County as an example, as a county seat, there is not even a school, and if others want to study, they either run to a place where there is a school, or hire Mr. to their home.
Reading is a big problem right now.
Is education important?
Pei Yun knows that education is important.
It's very simple, my own ability is inseparable from education.
Today's Min County is developing by leaps and bounds, so education cannot be left behind.
Opening a academy became Pei Yun's idea.
As I have already said, educational resources are fundamental, and with the momentum of Min County now, and with the ability of Qi Xiang, it is not difficult to hire a gentleman to sit in the battle.
But this is not the education in Pei Yun's heart.
Education is not a dead book.
It is also important to know that everyone is different and has their own characteristics.
Some people can't find a way out even if they read a book all their lives.
And some people are prodigies who have been reading since they were young.
But there is another saying that if the east is not bright, but the west is bright, I am born to be useful.
Some people are not good at reading, but they can shine in other places.
Another one.
In Pei Yun's view, reading is not only for those who are trying to cope with the imperial examination, but also for those who want to study mathematics, physics, and chemistry......
People nowadays read books, and they read things that are rote memorization.
Okay, Pei Yun has to admit that if he reads like this kind of book by himself, he is afraid that he will not be able to learn it.
On the contrary, in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, Pei Yun is very capable.
This is also something that is not available at the moment.
The current education is not what Pei Yun is good at, and the education that Pei Yun is good at is detached from the current education.
It's useless to be a scholar, but that refers to those who can only dance and write.
If he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, would he still be afraid that it would be useless?
As long as you can read mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you are not afraid to go all over the world.
Pei Yun has his own philosophy about education.
Pei Yun once said, "I don't think my request should be like this." ”
When he said this, Pei Yun's thought was that he was still too weak, and if many things happened, he couldn't control them.
Such a feeling is something I don't like.
If you can control things by yourself, then you need to be strong enough.
Strength here refers not only to individuals, but also to individuals, no matter how strong they are, they are always limited.
But what if you can teach a group of powerful people through your own hands?
Pei Yun knew that this idea was dangerous.
I really want to teach others what I know, and even I can't predict what things will become.
So you have to think about it yourself.
Is it to be able to tolerate your weakness and not be strong enough, or to do something unpredictable with dangerous thoughts.
Pei Yun's final answer was to take one step at a time.
Try to do something first, if it's good, move on, if it's not good, forget it.
Yes, take it one step at a time, try to do it, after all, you have such capital now.
In this Min County, you can mess with yourself as much as you want, and no one can do anything to yourself.
Will Hu Sisi do anything to himself, and will Qi Xiangru do anything to himself.
And in addition to Hu Sisi and Qi Xiangru, he still needs to see whose face he has in this Min County.
Pei Yun's idea was to transform Huai'en Temple into Huai'en Academy, and then let Qi Xiangru come forward to find Mr. to teach, so that the academy would be justified.
And I will try to set up my own courses, take some students, and teach some things that I want to teach.
Things are planned in this way, and as for what the result will be, I don't know what it will be, so I can only do my best to obey the destiny of heaven.
However, things are full of unknowns, isn't it interesting?