Chapter 279: Education
"The number of mages is too small now, and more mages should be trained. Kaichi said suddenly.
Magnay laughed: "It's easy to say, but is it so easy to train a mage? It takes eight to ten years of study for a mage apprentice to complete his studies, and even so, only a small number of people can become a full-fledged mage, and it is even more difficult to become a white-robed mage, and it is already good to be able to achieve something in 20 years." Not everyone can progress as fast as you do. ”
Jia Yi has become a purple-robed mage before he is thirty years old this year, and his speed is not unfast, Queenie has been studying with Magni since she was a child, and her talent and resources are the top, and becoming a purple-robed mage is not much earlier than Jia Yi. And in the study of magic, it is far inferior to Jiayi.
"Actually, we can carry out education in stages, the current mage apprenticeship academy fees are too high, very few students can afford to go to it, and if they can't become full-fledged mages, their future will not change qualitatively, of course, it will lead to not many students who have the ability to go to the academy to study. But now that there are printed rune boards, the situation is completely different. ”
Magnay still has a great impression of the printed rune board, and the council is also involved in this matter, and now the leadership is still in the hands of the council. The radio produced by the United Chamber of Commerce using printed rune boards has almost monopolized the radio market, and at the same time, the magic refrigerator and air conditioner produced by the United Chamber of Commerce are also very popular, and if it is not limited by the lack of power network, more products can be sold.
The construction of the first phase, the second phase and the third phase of Moshacher's power construction was led by Moshacher himself, which subsidized a lot of money, but now with experience, the United Chamber of Commerce is ready to choose a large city to build a second power grid, when the time comes, it can collect electricity bills, sell electricity, and build a relay tower to broadcast Moshacher's radio station there.
If all this can be carried out in an orderly manner, it is foreseeable that the United Chamber of Commerce will have a profound impact on the world in the next hundred years.
"You know, since the advent of printed rune boards, the cost of the United Chamber of Commerce has dropped a lot, but the demand for mage apprentices has also increased a lot, and now there are no more suitable people to hire. Nowadays, the training of students is all aimed at becoming mages, which is really wasteful, many people are limited by their talents, and it takes more effort to become mages, and more people are limited by not being able to get education, and even if they have talent, they are buried. It is entirely possible to expand the educational area and then select the best students for further education through entrance exams. And even if you don't make the list, you can also carry out vocational education, and after the magical mage apprentice conducts targeted education, he can be fully qualified for the work in the United Chamber of Commerce. ”
If the Chamber of Commerce wants to expand, it is inevitable to recruit workers, but the quality of the current workers is really poor, except for a small number of people, most of them cannot read and write, and even have a serious accent, and they also lack basic discipline, and their learning ability is even more worrisome, which greatly restricts the development of the United Chamber of Commerce.
Not to mention that as other chambers of commerce begin to learn about printed circuit boards, the demand for high-quality workers will only increase, and the gap will grow.
"What? Do you want to promote basic education, popularize magical education?" Magnay looked at Kaichi with a meaningful gaze, "Just because you don't have enough workers in the Chamber of Commerce?"
"Of course it's not just that, and it's not my Chamber of Commerce, the United Chamber of Commerce Council has more shares than me. ”
Jia Yi was a little hesitant when he spoke, and Magnay said: "Say anything, as long as you don't think about subverting the council, what can't be said here with me, you have now become a purple-robed mage, and if you want, you can already participate in the decision-making level of the council." ”
There are more than ten legendary mages in the Supreme Council, and most of them don't know where the cat is, even if they are legendary mages on rotation, they rarely interfere in specific affairs, and most of the time, the decisions of the council are made by various management committees, and the management committees are basically purple-robed level mages.
Once you become a purple-robed mage, your identity and status are completely different. Of course, it is not a simple matter to enter the various committees of Parliament.
"I've always felt that the current application of magic is a bit rudimentary, it doesn't feed back to society, and due to the popularity of education, many gifted children don't have access to magic, which has led to the inability of the mage community to grow. I have met many mages in Moshacher, but outside of Moshacher, except for a few large cities where there are sporadic mages, it is rare to see a mage in most places, and there are many wild mages with fragmentary inheritances.
"If the council can popularize education, then children with magical talents will definitely be able to stand out, and for gifted children, they can continue to educate in magic, and after becoming official mages, they can go to the magic academy to study. Children with basic education are the best workers and have access to the various magic workshops. The more money they make, the more their purchasing power increases, and the goods of the Chamber of Commerce can sell better. Let everything go in a positive cycle. ”
Kaichi's idea is a bit idealistic, but the general meaning is not bad, the printed rune board is a huge boost to the magic industry of this world, almost equivalent to the impact of electricity on the earth, and after the appearance of electricity on the earth, the second industrial revolution began, and then there were two world wars.
"You're right, but have you thought about it, how much does it cost, and will the management committee be willing to pay for it?"
The outlook is promising, but it's not easy to impress the various management committees, and such a large expenditure is not something that any one management committee can decide, and it may even need to be voted on by the legendary mage in the end.
The Supreme Council is not a country, it is essentially an organization that serves mages, at most it is a city-state, and its investment in basic education and people's livelihood is only incidental, and it is not attentive, otherwise Moshacher Institute of Basic Education would not have such a superior environment but could not overwhelm the other colleges. Moreover, in recent years, there has been a lot of investment in the construction of power networks, and the benefits have only begun to appear, and it is very difficult to invest more resources in the education industry.
Jia Yi also knows that this matter is easy to say, but it is not easy to do, so he will seem so hesitant when he says it, many things are cool when he talks about them, and only when he really does it know that it is difficult.
However, there are many things that will naturally appear along the way, even if Jia Yi doesn't bring it up, with the rapid development of the magic industry, it will slowly promote the development of education, there may be some bumps, but it will definitely appear.
Of course, if the magic industry hadn't developed, simply investing in education wouldn't have had that much effect. Ancient China cultivated a large number of scholars, but most of them were embarrassed by the lack of skills except for officials, and became characters like Kong Yiji.
Magnay did not completely dismiss Kaichi's idea, saying:
"But what you said is not unreasonable, investing in education is a great boost for mages. Ian O'Alley wants to be obsessed with education, you can pitch your ideas to him, and if he agrees, then the chances of success will be greatly increased. ”
"But Lord O'Lane has been out all the time, how can you contact the other party?"
Kaichi was a little melancholy, O'Ryon likes to travel everywhere, and it is not easy to get in touch with him when he is rarely in Moshacher.
"There's a magic messenger, the council has a special messenger, you can contact any mage who left a beacon, I'll give you a note, and when the time comes, you can organize your thoughts and send it to Ian. ”
Before the telegraph, the emergency contact of the council mages was transmitted through magical messengers. It's just that now there is a telegraph, so the messenger is used less. Legendary mages can even use electromagnetic teleportation when the distance is short, which is even more convenient.
It's just that the electromagnetism is sometimes interfered with, so the messenger is always there.