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Chapter 686: Han Imperial College for Girls

"Your Excellency, you flatter me."

"I can only do my best. Everything depends on your support and the joint efforts of everyone."

Su Yao's praise and recognition made Cai Yan's cheeks slightly blush.

She knew very well that if she wanted to accomplish something that no one else in the class had done, she could not do without Su Yao's full support.

And Su Yao was naturally very clear about this.

As the night deepened outside the window, the discussion between the two people inside became more heated.

Soon, Cai Yan, who was about to take office, reached an agreement with Su Yao on resource investment, teaching staff, and task allocation for the girls.

First of all, Su Yao set aside part of the mansions that had been confiscated to house those women, a mansion that could accommodate hundreds of people as a workplace for the art troupe and a place for students to gather before the girls' school was officially established.

When Su Yao is away, the famous scholar Zhong Yao will be responsible for cooperating with Cai Yan and mobilizing resources to ensure the operation of the organization.

The problems of teaching staff and curriculum setting are much simpler than imagined.

Thanks to Ban Zhao, although there are few women who can read and write nowadays, there are still a small number of people in the palace and aristocratic families in the capital who are proficient in "Legislation for Women" and use it to teach concubines and children at home.

With these people in charge of cultural courses, Su Yao then arranged for Cai Yan to discuss with famous scholars such as Zhong Yao to formulate and revise the new curriculum.

As a person with modern thinking, Su Yao is very clear about the importance of unifying thoughts in the curriculum.

The first step he had to take was ideological education.

Su Yao must ensure that students from these schools cannot become an opposition force to him.

Therefore, on the basis of traditional loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, as well as the traditional "Three Obediences" and "Four Virtues" in Ban Zhao's "Instructions for Women", Su Yao appropriately added values ​​such as emancipating the mind, Mencius's view that the people are more important than the emperor, and world views such as the evolution of the Mandate of Heaven.

After ensuring ideological education, Su Yao would naturally not neglect knowledge and cultural education.

As the first girls' school run by Su Yao himself, he hoped that while building the girls' school, it would also shoulder the responsibility of exploring the development path of universal education in the future.

So he discussed with Cai Yan again and added the study of classic literary works such as "The Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci", as well as the teaching of practical knowledge such as history, arithmetic, astronomy, and geography.

In addition, Su Yao also decided to introduce some new subjects, such as art courses such as music, dance, painting, calligraphy, as well as the teaching of handicrafts, farming skills, and practical skills such as accounting and camp management.

He hopes that through these diversified courses that are similar to the educational concepts of modern schools, girls can not only increase their knowledge and improve their cultural literacy, but also master a skill and lay a solid foundation for their future life.

Even if these girls get married soon after their studies and focus on their families, the knowledge and skills they have learned will become valuable assets for themselves and their families, helping their husband's family to develop their careers and educate their children and future generations.

Compared with basic education, which requires more assistance from existing celebrities such as Zhong Yao, the teaching staff for these talent courses is relatively simple to solve.

In addition to Hong'er and the Hu Ji sisters who are proficient in singing and dancing skills, there are many people in the royal court and the mansions of aristocratic families who teach women talents. Although these people may not be highly educated, they have profound attainments and rich experience in art fields such as music, dance, painting, and calligraphy.

These people are now doing nothing under Su Yao's command.

Therefore, it would be a two-pronged approach to select those with superb skills and good moral character from these people and have them teach talent courses in girls' schools.

In addition to joining his art troupe, or entering the palace or Zhen's business, some of these students will continue to stay in the school and become new teachers, gradually expanding and improving the scale and efficiency of the teaching staff. After solving the problems of venue, teachers and curriculum, the source of students is the top priority.

Unlike Ban Zhao, whose ultimate career was confined to the palace and upper class society, Su Yao hoped that his women's education could not only develop among the upper class but also be popularized to the general public.

Su Yao knew very well that only if the girls' school was running in full swing and setting a good example, he would be able to carry out educational reforms without too many obstacles after he came to power in the future.

However, due to the resistance of the aristocratic families to him and the fact that girls' education was contrary to the customs of the time, the number of students he could obtain at the beginning was obviously very limited.

However, fortunately, as Cai Yan said, due to Su Yao's previous good deeds, the women he rescued from the palace and the aristocratic families became the first batch of best students.

These girls came from different backgrounds, some were former palace maids, and some were concubines or maids of aristocratic families.

Thanks to Su Yao's rescue, they regained their freedom and had the opportunity to start over.

The establishment of girls' schools undoubtedly provides them with a platform for learning and growth.

They are grateful for Su Yao's kindness and will become the best flag-bearers to promote his career.

Therefore, before setting up junior departments for different age groups, a higher student department dedicated to adult education for students over fifteen years old was established first.

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Women of this age group have already acquired a certain foundation of talent through the education of aristocratic families and the court. They will become the most active and influential student group in the early stages of women's education.

In order to show his support, Su Yao even stuffed all of his wives, concubines and maids of marriageable age into the high school department.

Among them, there is even a very special student, that is Princess Wannian who returned to the palace.

However, in this strict hierarchy, these people have special identities after all.

To this end, at Cai Yan's insistence, Su Yao specially set aside an independent mansion outside the Nangong Gate in Luoyang for these noble ladies of noble birth as a place for female studies and activities, and named it the Royal Women's College.

And the effort was not in vain.

When he learned that Su Yao's family and Princess Wannian were both active in this famous academy.

Although they said that the champion was promiscuous and unreliable, in reality these wealthy families in Beijing were very honest and sent their daughters to sign up for the event.

Soon, just one day after the Royal Girls' College was announced to be established, in addition to the families sent by Su Yao's direct descendants to express their support, the number of applicants to this special girls' school experienced an explosive growth.

Looking at the girls with sweet smiles and youthful and beautiful figures, Su Yao suddenly had the idea of ​​creating a uniform.

However, there is obviously not much time to waste right now.

In this way, when Su Yao was busy preparing for the Western Expedition, Cai Yan and others were also busy. In addition to the tasks of establishing the school, they also selected a group of outstanding students to participate in the Western Expedition and help Su Yao's army with logistical support and morale boosting.

Rather, this is the main task of Cai Yan and other humanities workers' groups at the moment.

This was their first appearance, and every girl who was selected was working hard, hoping to help Su Yao and prove her own worth.

As the saying goes, God will not let down those who work hard. In their first appearance in Hongnong City, the youth storm set off by the girls severely shocked those "country bumpkins".
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