The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 199: Offer rewards to recruit craftsmen who can improve pen craftsmanship!
The three schools to be opened should be positioned as schools between technical secondary schools and junior colleges in later generations. As for running serious universities, the conditions and levels are not yet there.It is enough to run universities and secondary schools well.

Normal schools and commercial schools are relatively easier to run. Normal schools are to deepen Chinese and mathematical knowledge on the basis of existing elementary schools. At most, they can set up a course that introduces simple natural physics knowledge, and then let the elementary school education content consist of Just upgrade two subjects to three subjects.Commercial schools are mainly for cultivating accounting and financial knowledge. The main courses are mathematics and accounting knowledge.As the system becomes larger and larger, the demand for financial personnel becomes greater and greater. At this stage, graduates from this school do not have to worry about completing their studies.

Industrial schools are more troublesome. Except for apprentice classes, it is difficult to find qualified teachers.The craftsmen are skilled but not literate, while the scholars are literate but not literate.Although in recent years, we have always attached great importance to literacy education for craftsmen, it is still difficult to select craftsmen who can be teachers.

Machinery, chemical engineering, smelting, mathematics, and drawing were written on paper as the five subjects that the industrial school would be divided into. Song Yingkui thought about it again and again. It should be said that such a division of directions is almost reasonable at this stage, right?
The main courses offered by the Mechanical Department include geometry, mathematics, materials, tool making, general knowledge, drawing, and some smelting and chemical engineering knowledge. It should be said that the core class size of the industrial school can be larger.Other subjects are relatively subdivided, and some courses are intertwined with mechanical subjects.Setting up mathematics as a separate subject is to lay the foundation for opening deeper schools in the future.

Frankly speaking, even Song Yingkui himself has no confidence in whether he can do well in the subject of mathematics.Real mathematics is not arithmetic, nor is it geometry or algebra. The core thinking of this thing is to use the known to solve the unknown. How can an ordinary mechanical undergraduate get involved?
As for setting up drawing as a separate subject, it is mainly due to practical needs. The factory system requires a large number of people who understand drawing to connect actual production and design.This subject will not be limited to mechanical drawing, but will also extend to engineering drawing and geographical surveying, laying the foundation for future civil engineering and geography.

The five branches currently established are the seeds for a larger and more professional engineering university in the future!

"City Lord, three high-end schools are going to be opened. How many students are suitable? When will the enrollment be officially opened? The administrative office should make an announcement as soon as possible!" Although the school setting is very different from what Jiang Yunjin understood, it is for selective education. The core is still similar to the imperial examination in that it provides a channel for society to rise and enter the ruling system, so Jiang Yunjin is very concerned about this.He knew that as long as this thing was implemented, the cohesion and stability of the Yungu system would change qualitatively.

"Well, let's set it to early August. The administrative office will discuss the specific time. The method used for the admissions examination is to set questions in a unified way and register in advance. Anyone who wants to refer to it must confirm all the requirements in advance when registering. The school you applied for. During the exam, apply to different schools and put them in different examination rooms. After marking the papers, you can admit them in order from high to low. As for how many people will be recruited, each school will admit about a hundred people this year, right? The specific number actually depends on Depending on the number of participants, if the number of participants is small, the scale can be appropriately reduced, and if there are many, the scale can be expanded.”

When enrolling students for the first time, people are really unsure of how many people can sign up.The two primary schools, Yungu and Wuying, are not restricted by study time this year and can all register for reference. However, the total number of candidates who can be referenced is only about [-]. You can't enroll them all into the advanced school, right?In addition to these two schools, under the current rule, there may be two to three hundred students with basic literacy skills?The rest can only rely on visitors from outside the region. How many people are interested in this and how many overseas scholars the enrollment information can reach are unknown.

"We want to recruit 300 people? Isn't there too many people?" For a stall as big as Dazheng, there are not many students who pass the exam in one year. Jiang Yunjin feels that the Yungu system has just started and the steps it takes are a bit too big.

Is 300 people still a lot?Our Yungu now has a population of hundreds or tens of thousands, how big the proportion can be!Besides, talent is productivity, so there is nothing to worry about.If it were not for the shortage of teachers and the low quality of students, it would be better to recruit 800 talents.I ignored the second uncle's question and asked him to make these preparations first.

To organize the recruitment, you must first determine the content and format of the exam. This time, just use the printed papers to take the exam. It will be easier to judge and score the papers.The content mainly focuses on basic literacy and arithmetic. The Chinese language has some fill-in-the-blank, judgment, sentence-making and writing questions. The arithmetic focuses on the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, plus a few application questions.It is an exam aimed at three-year-old students. It does not need to be too difficult, but you can set a small number of difficult questions to make it easier to widen the score difference.

There are two engraving workshops in Taoyang Gongfang District, and the work of printing papers can be left to them.Think about it, in the next few years, efforts will be made to popularize education, and the demand for consumables such as paper, ink, pens, and grinders will increase. We must speed up the support for these industries and guide them to improve production processes and reduce production costs.

By the way, the current common writing method of writing with a brush is also a hindrance to the popularization of education. We have to find a way to make a hard pen that is more convenient for writing.Without rubber, a self-priming pen cannot be made, but a water-immersed pen can be developed.

It is not difficult to make a simple dipped pen, but it is not easy to make a refined and easy-to-use pen. This is a delicate work that requires exquisite craftsmanship and a lot of ingenuity.Song Yingkui himself didn't have the time to work on this, so he arranged for people from the Machinery Research Institute to do it, and the efficiency might not be as high.

"I will copy twenty fountain pens according to the style I made, and then put them in the small square in front of the lobby of the city lord's palace, and post a notice to inform them. Recruit skilled craftsmen who can make pens similar to the ones made by the official but more practical. The city lord's palace will reward you with a large amount of pens, and will place orders to purchase them in large quantities so that he can make more pens!" The production threshold for pens is not high. In order to mature the craftsmanship as soon as possible, Song Yingkui is prepared to use collective efforts.After he personally went to the research and development center to make a sample, he offered rewards to recruit craftsmen who improved the craftsmanship to see if there could be high-level innovative talents under his control.

It would be best to stimulate the enthusiasm of craftsmen across the country to innovate and create through the development of fountain pens.An atmosphere of innovation cannot be formed by working alone, nor can it be achieved by setting up a research and development institute. Only when everyone uses their brains to innovate can technological progress flourish.To this day, creativity is still the most lacking thing in the Yungu system!

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