Daming Super Daddy

When a long table full of dishes and fine wines was brought in, Zhu Di drank a glass of wine and said, "You all know that the preparation of the department is on the right track, and the specific structure has also taken shape. But what I am worried about is about the What kind of students should the teaching institutions accept and what should be taught? Since they are graded, the content taught should naturally be different. Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any ideas?"

According to the teaching style of private schools in the past, a master of a private school often teaches the children what he has learned all his life. That is to say, the education level of the children in the future depends on the teacher who teaches them.

If the master of the private school is just a mediocre person who has studied for a few years, then the students he teaches, unless they are followed by a more talented master, otherwise, the highest achievement in life is to be comparable to their master. , relying on self-study to want high school imperial examinations is completely idiotic.

"Long live." The hall was quiet for a while, but Xie Jin spoke first, "When the academy was first built, I once asked Kong Xuan, Kong's servant, to send a letter to the disciples who had followed him to learn and ask for advice. Let them come to Nanjing City to organize the construction of the academy."

When talking about this, Xie Jin paused, and continued: "After discussions these days, I finally have a preliminary plan."

"Oh? Can it be compiled into a book?" Zhu Song interjected at this time.

"It's just been recorded one by one, and I haven't had time to organize it into a book." Xie Jin turned his head and glanced at Zhu Song, and replied: "I originally wanted to let Kong Shilang play an excerpt in a few days. This is a brief introduction for Long Live Lord and all the adults."

Although Kong Yanjin, the contemporary Yansheng Gong, is the Minister of the Ministry of Education, he not only occupies the official position of the Minister, because of his special status, Zhu Di granted him permission not to participate in the Great Court Meeting, or even to submit a memorial.

Therefore, the work that the minister should do, even the appointment and dismissal of some low-level officials in the department, were all thrown to the left and right ministers, and the old master Kong Xuan was naturally pushed out.

"Oh, it's okay for you to talk about it first." Zhu Di waved his hand and said, "After all, it's not a book yet. Let's discuss it in the hall. The three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang, haha..."

When talking about the latter, Zhu Di himself laughed first, and now he just wanted to listen. After all, the people in the hall are not specialized in education at the moment, so who can come up with any good ideas?

"Since Long Live Lord wants to hear, then I will talk about it." Xie Jin smiled and said: "Our teaching institutions under the Ministry of Education are divided into four stages from top to bottom, namely Jixia Academy, Jixia Academy, Jixia Academy, and Jixia Academy. According to the opinions of those scholars, the teaching institutions at each level are from bottom to top, from simple to complex, from easy to difficult, from simple to advanced. "

"As expected of Kong Qing's disciple." Zhu Di became interested as soon as he heard it, "Xie Qing, do you have any specific points?"

"For example, the Jixia Academy at the county level." Xie Jin pursed his lips and said: "The initial opinion of the scholars is to set the learning of Jixia Academy as four years. After all, the most important thing for children is Teaching at a young age is a period of shaping a child, and these four years are enough for the children to lay a solid foundation."

"But, childhood is the time when learning ability is good." Zhu Song nodded aside, "But I am very curious. These four years are not long or short. Scholars What are you going to teach the kids?"

"Our Daming's enlightenment for children is nothing more than three hundred thousand. In this first year, it is natural to learn three hundred thousand, and let the children master three hundred thousand." Xie Jin said as a matter of course.

Three hundred thousand refers to the enlightenment in ancient China, "San Zi Jing", "Hundred Surnames" and "Thousand Characters". Word hyphenation is purely based on accumulation. If it is said that children can completely master three hundred thousand in one year, it is still somewhat impossible.

Wait, there seems to be something wrong!

Zhu Song was thinking about whether the children could master three hundred thousand in one year, when suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he seemed to have forgotten something, so Zhu Song frowned, trying to remember.

With a crisp sound, Zhu Song clapped his hands suddenly, and said, "Master Xie, do you know what the school age for those scholars is? You can't send them to Jixia Academy when they are three or four years old?"

Age, yes, age!

According to Zhu Song's previous life, China's "nine-year compulsory education system", children are required to go to school at the age of eight, that is, they can only go to elementary school at the age of seven, and the education before elementary school is preschool education.

Xie Jin was stunned for a moment, touched the back of his head, and said, "This, this, it's never..."

"It's simply unrealistic to master three hundred thousand in one year." Before Xie Jin could finish speaking, Zhu Song interrupted him, "We all know that although children's ability to accept is very strong, if three or four If you entered Jixia Academy when you were young, wouldn't you be able to do nothing but make trouble?"

"That's right!" Zhu Di also reacted, "If the child is too young, it will delay other children who can learn, and if it is too old, the children will deliberately alienate and laugh at those older children. Children, from this point of view, they are actually harming them."

"According to His Royal Highness King Han, what restrictions should teaching institutions at all levels have on children?" Xie Jin asked.

"It's very simple. Children enter Jixia Academy at the age of eight, enter Jixia Academy three years later, study in Jixia Academy for three years, and then enter Jixia Academy Palace. As for Jixia Academy..."

Zhu Song thought about it carefully, and continued: "In the Jixia Academy, there should be gathered the most talented scholars and Confucian scholars in my Ming Dynasty. Whether they can enter the Jixia Academy depends on the efforts of the children themselves."

"Brother Song, according to what you mean, if you want to study in Jixia Academy, you still need to be assessed?" Sitting beside Zhu Song, Zhu Huan frowned again when he heard this, "If you want to be assessed, you still need to be assessed?" Will anyone come to the academy?"

"Why not?" Zhu Song stared, and said, "Not only the Jixia Academy, but all teaching institutions at all levels below the academic department will conduct assessments every period of time. Those who fail the assessment will have to re-examine. Or repeat a grade."

what's the situation?Check every once in a while?What is the difference between this and the rural examination and the general examination?

All the civil and military officials present were stunned. This is not study, it is obviously non-stop exams!

This is Zhu Song's revenge, bringing the pain of exam-oriented education in his previous life to Daming, and judging from the way Zhu Song speaks, he is very thoughtful, it is clear that he wants Daming's brats to suffer!

"Dare to ask the lord, what is repeating a grade?" Xie Jin can still understand the re-examination, but he doesn't know what repeating a grade is.

"It's repetition, let me put it this way." Zhu Song thought for a while, and explained: "Didn't Mr. Jie just say that in the first year of Jixia Academy, is he going to let the children fully grasp the three hundred thousand? It's like , It’s like letting the children learn Tang poetry in the second year. After the first year is over, organize the children to take an exam. If there are children who fail the exam, they will not be allowed to enter the second year of Tang poetry study.”

When talking about this, Zhu Song deliberately paused to give everyone a time to understand and buffer.

After all, what Zhu Song just explained was a bit convoluted, and it was a little difficult to understand.

After the understanding expressions appeared on the faces of everyone, Zhu Song continued: "When, when the children who fail the exams can pass the three hundred thousand study period exams, they can start studying Tang poetry. From the exams to the After passing the exam, it’s the repetition period.”

"Oh!" Xie Jin was stunned, stroking the black beard under his chin, and said, "It's good for the children if they repeat the grade, at least they won't learn everything, it's just a test for the children's endurance."

Of course, it is a test for the children's endurance. If they repeat a grade once, it's fine. If they repeat for two or three years in a row, not only the children will laugh at them, but even the parents of those children will take the children who repeat the grades. As a negative teaching material, what kind of pressure will those children who repeat the grades bear?

"You are too pessimistic." Yao Guangxiao touched his bald head and said, "Actually, this is also an encouragement to the children. Think about it, if all the other children in the same period passed the exam, and only he failed, would he just let it go?" Work hard to study ten times, a hundred times harder than other children?"

Xie Jin chuckled, and said, "Master Yao is right, but the lower officials didn't think well."

"Brother Song, that's a good idea." Zhu Di picked up his glass and took a sip, "It's just according to what Brother Song said just now, since he entered Jixia Academy at the age of eight, three years at Jixia Academy, three years at Jixia College, and three years at Jixia Academy Palace, excluding the time spent studying at Jixia Academy, this is a total of nine years. After completing their studies, they will be adults. After they are adults, is it possible that they will all enter the court and become officials?"

As the saying goes, "Study hard for more than ten years in the cold window, and be famous in the gold list." Compared with more than ten years, nine years are not a few years. What I have learned in these years should be enough for a lifetime.

But in the same way, nine years also let those children learn a lot less: farming, business, martial arts... If they learn to write after nine years, it will be too late!

Of course, this is what Zhu Di and the other ministers present think, and it does not represent Zhu Song's wishes.

"Brother Sihuang, why do you think so?" Zhu Song looked at Zhu Di strangely, and said, "What does it have to do with children studying for nine years and being an official in the court? Isn't the reason why children study is for Do you want to improve the overall quality of the next generation of my descendants?"

"Isn't it?" Zhu Di frowned, and asked solemnly: "In nine years, although many scholars have been cultivated, my Ming Dynasty has vast arable land. Who will plant this arable land? The foreign countries have invaded the border of our Ming Dynasty, there are bandits and floods raging in the territory, who will guard the border, and who will suppress the bandits?"

Zhu Di just mentioned two occupations, one is a farmer and the other is a soldier. Both occupations are extremely important in Ming Dynasty.

When they arrived here, the meaning of Zhu Di's words was already obvious. They thought that the nine years of learning Zhu Song's words were just learning poetry, songs, Fu, and the six arts of a gentleman, and they didn't learn anything else.

This is also Huaxia's teaching tradition since ancient times, so it's not surprising!

5 Chapter Twenty

"Of course not!" Zhu Song shook his head exaggeratedly, and said, "If these nine years are just to teach students to read and write, the Four Books and Five Classics, Tang Poetry and Song Ci, then it would be better not to set up this department."

"What do you mean?" Zhu Di was stunned, what did he learn from this?Is it possible to learn how to farm?Stop it!

"Since the Faculty opened, it is natural that morality, intelligence, physique, art and labor have all-round development." Zhu Song directly brought out the nouns from his previous life. Anyway, plagiarism is not once or twice, and he is used to plagiarism now.

"Brother Song, you have quite a lot of new words." Zhu Huan's eyes widened, "Quickly explain."

"The so-called morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor actually refer to five aspects of education."

Zhu Song patiently explained to everyone: "This 'moral education' is to cultivate correct people's outlook on life and values, so that they have good moral qualities and form correct thoughts; 'intellectual education' is to impart systematic culture and skills to people. Develop their intelligence; "Physical Education" is to develop people's physical strength, enhance their physique, and cultivate their willpower; "Aesthetic Education" is to cultivate people's aesthetics, develop their ability to appreciate and create beauty, and cultivate their noble sentiments and qualities; As for 'labor education', it is an education that cultivates people's concept of labor and labor skills."

When talking about this, Zhu Song paused for a moment, and then continued: "Moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor are the basic criteria for locating people's qualities, and they have also been the goal of education since ancient times. Therefore, my teaching in Ming Dynasty is far from Without the fundamentals of morality, intelligence, physique, art and labor, all-round development can improve quality in an all-round way, isn't it?"

Zhu Song's words seem to have opened up a new world for Zhu Di and the others, because what Zhu Song just said, no one has ever proposed China in thousands of years since ancient times, or even this concept. They care about 'virtue' and 'wisdom', but they never cared about 'body, beauty and labor'.