Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

After a heavy snowfall that lasted for three days, the entire pioneer territory was covered with a thick layer of snow.

The eaves were condensed with clear ice crystals, and with the occasional whistling cold wind, they made crisp cracking sounds.

The cold weather outside did not affect the children who were concentrating on studying in the classroom. Harvey required the territory public school to lay warm water copper pipes since its construction. He was reluctant to let these future "seedlings and flowers" of the territory shiver in the cold wind while learning and growing.

"Teacher Sophia! Why are [sun] and [sunlight] not described by the same word, but named by two special words?"

"Teacher Sophia! Don't [flowers] and [buds] both refer to flowers growing in the garden? What's the difference between them?"

"Teacher Sophia..."

Sophia, who once worked as a tutor for nobles, stood on the podium, closed the textbook helplessly, and explained patiently with a gentle smile: "Of course they are different. Although the meanings of the words you mentioned are similar, they do not refer to the same thing... The sun will release warm sunlight, and flowers will grow buds before blooming..."

Although the wastelanders and the southerners belong to the same human race, the language systems formed over thousands of years have gradually become quite different due to the different living areas and surrounding environments - at least in terms of accents and some common words, there are many differences.

Sophia found that the older the local wastelanders were, the more different their words and accents were. Sometimes they spoke too fast and it was difficult for her to hear them clearly. She could only understand the general meaning, but it was not completely different from what she was saying.

In this regard, she had to admire the lord's foresight in education - starting from the baby, letting these children who have lived in the new territory since childhood learn and use the same language and writing system, so that they can integrate into the whole faster and no longer have prejudices and discrimination between regions.

At least it is not like now, most of the local wastelanders and the new immigrants from the southern border who gradually migrated in always look down on each other, and there are some trivial contradictions such as living habits and concepts.

In the primary education outline written by the lord himself, the concept of "new northerners" mentioned repeatedly at the beginning is trying to instill a basic concept of unity and unity regardless of regional origin in these new generations of children.

Sophia is still in the internship stage of a trainee teacher. Although public school teachers are in short supply, her superiors have only assigned her a small amount of teaching tasks in primary education in Chinese and grammar. At present, she only needs to teach three classes of children, literacy, reading, writing and grammar interpretation enlightenment courses.

The salary is not less, but the work is indeed several times easier. Compared with Mr. Colen who teaches mathematics courses next door, at least she does not have to stay up late to recite and understand the "multiplication table" compiled by the lord. As a formal teacher, she needs to work hard to learn new knowledge by herself before she can pass it on to the students she is responsible for.

I heard that Mr. Colen also took on the teaching tasks of the adult night literacy school. The daily teaching schedule is almost full. He is old and his legs and feet are not very agile. It is really too hard.

"Okay, dear children, today's grammar class ends here..."

"Teacher Sophia?" A colleague from the primary teaching department poked his head into the classroom and stopped Sophia who was about to pack up and leave. "When the city hall sent the message just now, you were still in class and didn't receive the notice. Please stay in school for a while after the class..."

"Is there anything?" Sophia asked in confusion.

The colleague put away his smile and whispered seriously: "The lord and the dean of the college, Mr. Asdaren, will come to the school for inspection at 5 pm. The heads of the junior, middle and high school teaching departments are all on standby and require all teachers to stay and listen to the lord's work instructions."

...

The afternoon bell just rang for the fifth time, and Lord Harvey and Chief Advisor Asdaren appeared on time in the college auditorium of the Pioneer Territory Public School. Looking at the dozens of teachers from various departments sitting seriously below, they said directly without a trace of nonsense.

"Before the end of winter, I require the elementary and secondary teaching departments of public schools to expand enrollment and include the children of the newly moved southern immigrants into the territory."

Asdalen slowly opened the work manual and reported clearly and rationally: "Sir, with the current scale of teachers in the school, we are afraid that it will be difficult to do it in a short period of time... There are nearly 3,000 children eligible for admission in a territory with a population of 20,000. The maximum teaching capacity of the elementary teaching department can only absorb 50% of them..."

The population data statistics of the two alchemical beings, Reiner and Asdalen, are accurate, and the error is generally no more than two digits. In the pioneering territory with a population of 20,000, in addition to the teenagers who are over 16 years old and can participate in labor and work, there are indeed more than 3,000 children aged 8 to 16 who are eligible for education.

However, the only public school in the territory currently has less than fifty teachers in all teaching departments. More than half of them are teachers responsible for literacy and reading enlightenment education in the primary teaching department. They can only barely open twenty enlightenment classes, which have less than a thousand children enrolled.

The head of the elementary education department also said in a low voice: "Lord, there are too many children, and school is free. The school also provides a hearty and nutritious lunch. Almost all the families of the lords with formal jobs are willing to send their children to school... The existing teachers can't take care of it, and there are not enough classrooms, unless..."

"Unless the Ministry of Education expands its staff by three times and doubles the public schools..." Asdaren answered meticulously.

Harvey scratched his head in annoyance. Where can he expand the staff of the Ministry of Education... In this ignorant and dark world shrouded by religious beliefs and extraordinary magic and ruled by feudal aristocrats, the per capita education and literacy rate is not even 1% pitiful.

In order to establish an education department and carry out modern universal education, he almost searched the entire pioneer territory to gather this group of "feudal intellectuals" who can master basic literacy, grammar and arithmetic. For this reason, he even lowered the recruitment requirements for teachers, and even recruited retired stonemasons who could carve words on stone tablets as teachers.

He closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and said decisively: "Change the existing teaching model. I have a way to solve the problem of insufficient teachers... Let these children learn by themselves as much as possible!"

"Self-study?"

"How is this possible?"

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"Yes, self-study! There is an open class every day for primary education, teaching the most basic literacy, reading and writing. Textbooks printed by the Ministry of Education are uniformly distributed for them to practice on their own. There is no need for primary teachers to keep a close eye on them all the time, and there is no need to make mandatory requirements such as assessment tests."

Asdaren was stunned and argued: "The teaching effect may be very poor in this case, just like the night adult literacy class. Without supervision, it depends entirely on self-consciousness. If one out of ten children can learn it, it will be considered good."

Harvey chuckled and said lightly: "It doesn't matter. One is one. It is better than the current situation where more than half of the children who can't read a single word are turned away due to lack of manpower and limited enrollment. Free education at least gives them a chance."

The parents of these children are also adults working and living in the territory. They understand better than anyone that in order to get a high-paying job, they must reach a certain level of education. These people who have met their basic needs will naturally not sit idly by and watch their offspring also engage in low-paying jobs.

"From today on, the Ministry of Education will re-issue the education system according to the method I mentioned..." Harvey clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention back to him. "In the future, public schools will only provide five-year free education. The first three years will receive elementary enlightenment education. After passing the test and assessment, students will be promoted to intermediate vocational and technical education in the fourth year... After two years, they will graduate and be employed in various production departments."

"After a small number of excellent students complete intermediate vocational education, they will be admitted to the advanced teaching department depending on the situation. These young people will be the reserve talents for the administrative management of the territory in the future."

"Lord...then the Spellcaster Academy..." Durt Holden, the dean of the Spellcaster Academy affiliated with the Ministry of Education, asked in a low voice.

Harvey glanced at the young dean and smiled, "I have additional arrangements for you. I will talk to you alone later."