1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 149 What did 19th century middle school students learn?
Willis brought the textbooks from Morrison School with him on board, and Liang Yao soon received the full set of textbooks from Morrison School.

From the history textbooks, it is most straightforward to see how many private goods are mixed in a set of textbooks.

The history textbook of Morrison School is "The Chronicle of Great Britain" compiled by Morrison when he was in Malacca (Singapore), but the book in Liang Yao's hand is not the original version of "The Chronicle of Great Britain" by the Malacca (Singapore) Publishing House It is the Hong Kong version of "Union of Great Britain" after editing.

"A missionary, who studies documents for others, preaches the righteous way to the people. After several years of study, he will enter the examination, or be a scholar, or a scholar, or a scholar, or an imperial scholar. Abandon evil.

The principle of the sect is that there is God in the sky, the Emperor God, who is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent and compassionate, and has all virtues.

The power of human beings cannot fulfill the nature of the Emperor God, so the Emperor God revealed it as: the Father of the Emperor, the Son of the Emperor, and the Holy Spirit of the Emperor.

The duty of man is to honor the name of the Emperor God, and set the law with God and Heaven. "

The first thing Liang Yao saw was a passage with Chinese characteristics about Christian doctrine and missionary duties.

In addition to the vertical version of the traditional Chinese characters, it is a bit uncomfortable to read, but it is still very easy to understand this text with Liang Yao's classical Chinese background.

"The Chronicle of Great Britain" is not long, with only 17679 words in the book. After filtering out these religiously rich information, Liang Yao still obtained a lot of practical information from the book.

Although the whole book "Union of Great Britain" has only a few thousand words, the content involved is quite rich, including British religious customs, natural geography, historical evolution, and political system. However, due to space limitations, many contents It's all a little taste.

Generally speaking, "Great Britain" is still qualified as an introductory book on British history.At least I can learn some British history from the book, and have a general impression of Britain.

As for the few remaining history textbooks, they are not so much history textbooks as religious history textbooks, and even the Bible is included in the history textbooks.

Liang Yao was obviously dissatisfied with such a history lesson.

From these historical textbooks, students can only learn some sporadic historical knowledge about Britain at best, which is far from enough.

Liang Yao, the history textbook, intends to recompile three volumes, with himself as the editor-in-chief.

One is Chinese history textbooks, one is American history textbooks, and the other is European history textbooks to deepen students' understanding of world history.

It is relatively more difficult to compile Chinese history textbooks and European history textbooks, and it will take some time.

On the contrary, the history textbooks of the United States are very easy to compile. As long as there are enough materials, he can finish compiling in a day or two.

After all, it has only been more than [-] years since the founding of the United States. If the writing is more refined, it may not be long.

Liang Yao is obviously not interested in reading those religious history books and the "Bible". Liang Yao put down the "Community of Great Britain", skipped the history course directly, and looked at the content of other practical subjects. This part is also the part that Liang Yao pays the most attention to. of.

These natural sciences include:

Geography, Anatomy, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Analytical Geometry, Trigonometry, Surveying, Navigation, Calculus, Water, Aerology, Optics, Heat, Electricity, Mechanics, Steam, Mechanics, Printing, Meteorology.These are subjects that are taught in more detail.

It is a pity that the teaching content is relatively superficial. Many of the subjects, such as optics, heat, and electricity, are not perfect in this era, and the relevant knowledge that can be taught to middle school students is naturally very limited.

However, Liang Yao was relieved that the professors of relatively mature practical subjects such as geography, mathematics, and navigation were more detailed.

Of course, in addition to these subjects, there are also subjects such as physiology, zoology, botany, philosophy, model casting, shipbuilding, international law, and official studies (introducing the titles and functions of officials in various countries).

The teaching of these subjects is very simple, and basically only introduces some industry terms. According to Liang Yao's point of view, these are not complete subject education, at most they can only be regarded as simple subject science popularization.

There is also a special subject that is taught in great detail, and that is theology, since this is a missionary school after all.

In addition, there are language subjects, which are also key teaching subjects, mainly teaching English, and French, Dutch and Spanish are available for elective study.

According to Willis, these Morrison schools adopt the model of compulsory subjects + elective subjects to teach these students.

These subjects are fairly serious, but the exercises are full of strong church colors.

For example, a geography exercise is that the priest Morrison set off from Liverpool to preach in Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty by sailboat. What is the most suitable month to start?What major ports will you pass through?How long is the total flight?Assuming that the average speed of the ship is 6.5 knots per hour, how long will it take to reach Guangzhou?
On the surface, this exercise is a geography exercise, but it actually includes some knowledge of navigation and mathematics.

Another example is the following question, which is a relatively pure mathematical problem. The general idea is to assume that a missionary can develop 100 devout believers in his lifetime. These believers will become new missionaries after the death of the missionary. Suppose there are 1000 million (ten [-] million) population, how many generations of missionaries are needed to make everyone in the world become devout believers of the Lord?

Generally speaking, the knowledge taught by the church school basically met Liang Yao's psychological expectations.

After all, these are students who came here for nothing, so what bicycles do they need, and then send them to middle schools in the east to study for a year or two and let them take the admissions exam for American University.

When Liang Yao was flipping through these textbooks, Pan Zhengwei brought his two grandsons to the Tao Garden to meet Liang Yao.

Liang Yao entrusted Wu Yuanhua to help persuade the old man of the Liang family to send his mother to California.

Wu Yuanhua told him that the Pan family has more face in the officialdom and has more connections. He heard that the Pan family and Mr. Liang had a friendship in Beijing, so it is more appropriate for the Pan family to come forward.

Although both the Wu family and the Pan family had been the general merchants of Guangzhou merchants, they took different paths.

The Wu family topped all the merchants with wealth, while the Pan family topped all the merchants with power.

After the Pan family made a fortune, they quickly carried out a transformation. In addition to making friends with the dignitaries of the dynasty, they also let their descendants study the imperial examinations and obtain fame, and completed the transformation from a family of imperial merchants to a family of officials.

The descendants of the Pan family are also very competitive, and many of them have achieved fame and embarked on official careers.

For this reason, the Pan family even considered withdrawing from the business team completely and canceling Tongfuxing. However, the Pan family repeatedly played, and the court refused to allow the Pan family to withdraw, so they had to bite the bullet and continue to operate Tongfuxing.

Perhaps in terms of business, the Pan family is not as good as the Wu family, but in terms of insight into the current situation and connections, the Pan family has more ways than the Wu family.

Historically, Pan Zhengwei's grandson had a close friendship with Sun, and even directly sponsored Sun.

"Liangyi has already told me about Lingtang, as a son of man, it is the duty of a man to be filial.

Since Mr. Liang has this kind of filial piety, my Pan family has always valued filial piety and human relations. In this matter, the Pan family will definitely help. "

Pan Zhengwei sat down with his robe lifted, and took the tea from Liang Shaoyu in his hand.

If it was only for this matter, Pan Zhengwei didn't need to bring his two grandsons with him.

Liang Yao knew that when Pan Zhengwei brought his two grandchildren, he must have other requirements.

"The Pan family is willing to help, and Liang is very grateful. If the Pan family needs Liang, Liang is obliged." Liang Yao thanked Pan Zhengwei.

"Pan has met your old man a few times. I think the Liang family's old man is testing you."

Now that Liang Yao had already spoken, Pan Zhengwei did not beat around the bush, and said directly.

"I heard that Mr. Liang is selecting young talents and plans to send them to a military academy in the United States for further study?"

After living in San Francisco for a period of time, Pan Zhengwei has gradually gotten used to life in a foreign country.

His name for the United States was also changed from Citigroup to America. Liang Yao heard that Pan Zhengwei had a good relationship with Robinson recently, and he even invested in the newly established Boston Bank of Boston Corporation.

"Is Yuting planning to send the two young masters of the Pan family to the military academy? The military academy is no different from ordinary schools. It has to endure hardships."

Liang Yao looked at Pan Zhengwei's two grandsons. Pan Zhengwei's two grandsons, Pan Baohuang and Pan Baolin, were [-] years old and [-] years old. This age indeed met Liang Yao's requirements.

It's just that Pan Zhengwei is willing to let his two precious grandsons enter the military school to suffer?
"Only by suffering and suffering can one be a master. The descendants of the Pan family never know how to write the word "endure hardship." Pan Zhengwei said.

"Master Liang, we are not afraid of suffering."

Pan Baohuang and Pan Baolin said to Liang Yao in unison.

"It's just that Pan hopes that after they return from their studies, they can find jobs under Mr. Liang's account, and the Pan family can pay for their studies," Pan Zhengwei added.

"Yu Ting underestimated Liang's financial resources. Since the two young masters want to get a job under my command in the future, Liang should bear the cost of studying." Liang Yao thought for a while and said.

"It's not wise to send both young masters to the military academy. There are other good schools in the United States called Harvard Yale Pennsylvania."

"Young Master Liang, I would like to hear more about what you have learned. I don't know much about the affairs of America, so I ask Mr. Liang to tell you clearly." Pan Zhengwei listened carefully to Liang Yao's words, for fear of missing key information.

"My suggestion is to let one of Baohuang and Baolin go to the military academy, and the other prepare for the American university, whether it is studying law, business, or engineering.

California is a new state, and what is most lacking right now are highly educated talents. As long as they return from their studies, their future prospects will be limitless.I am currently organizing students to prepare for university exams. "Liang Yao said.

"Very good, very good. The idea of ​​the old man is to let one of them join the army and the other go into politics. As for what to learn, I would like to ask Mr. Liang to give me some advice and recommend one or two." Pan Zhengwei clapped his hands.

"If you insist on going into politics, study the law." Liang Yao thought for a while and said.

The proportion of politicians born in law in the United States is quite large, and the current president Fillmore is a self-taught law.

Gerwin and many congressmen he knows also have legal backgrounds.

And California is indeed in urgent need of legal talents.

(End of this chapter)