Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 106 New Education

"You can't cook adults and children in one pot, can you?"

"It can be divided into two batches, the day shift and the night shift." Du Wen proposed her plan, "Children are in the daytime, and they are adults in the evening."

"You can't do it like this." Wang Luobin shook his head repeatedly, "You have never been in the countryside—children are also half of the labor force in the countryside. Going to school during the day, the villagers will definitely not agree."

Du Wen was right when she thought about it. In contrast, she was more interested in adult night schools: "Then take half a day of classes and do a good job at night schools..."

"It's even more outrageous." Before Wang Luobin could speak, Chen Haiyang shook his head, "My relatives went to the countryside to jump in the queue. At that time, there were night schools, but they were all closed when the farming was busy-the labor intensity of farmers was high. If you have to rest after a day's work, who will attend your night school?"

"That's right." Wang Luobin nodded repeatedly, "Before you realize the benefits of being educated, it's very difficult to attract them to study."

Seeing their objections, Du Wen was a little anxious: "Then why don't we do it?"

"Let's do it, let's hold a training class first, and we will also have an elite education." Xi Yazhou said half-jokingly.

The so-called elite education that Xi Yazhou mentioned is actually a training class for cadres.This kind of temporary short training course was often used in the past local work: to cultivate activists who are close to the organization - although their purposes are different, through training to improve their awareness, enhance organizational discipline, and learn how to work , and ultimately become the transmission cogs that drive the masses in countless grassroots organizations.

Of course, this is easy to say, but not easy to do. The so-called opening up a place is the most difficult.Especially the rather closed and conservative traditional rural society.The crisis faced by the saltworks gave the traversers a great opportunity to break into the local society. From this point of view, Gou Dahu is their hero.

So who are the activists?There are the father and son of the Tan family, the daughter of the village chief Tan, and some young people who have good friends with Tan Chengqing.It is naturally inconvenient for single girls to attend night classes with a group of men, so at first this night class only had men.

Wang Luobin was not in a hurry to call everyone together, he just went to Tan Guihuang first, and said that he wanted to set up a school for the children to teach them how to read and abacus.Tan Guihuang showed embarrassment, saying that the children in the village had to help with some farm work on weekdays, and if they were asked to go to school, their parents would probably not agree.Wang Luobin promised that he would only have half a day of class every day, and that he would not miss the farm work, so Tan Guihuang reluctantly agreed to talk about it. To be on the safe side, Wang Luobin sent Zhang Xingjiao to lobby.Xi Yazhou originally wanted to promise that all the children who came to study would be provided with free lunch, but this was too much for the dwindling food reserves.

Quite a few children came in the end. Although most of them felt that their children were useless in reading, they could read a few words, and it was not bad for the farm family to settle accounts.Furthermore, it only takes half a day to go to school, which does not affect the work in the field.

The course of the school is four hours of class every afternoon, from 12:4 to [-]:[-].However, the salt people, like most ancient residents, have little exact concept of time.In order to establish this concept, an electric speaker was installed in the Ge Hongmiao camp, and it would automatically play every hour: It is X o'clock in Lingao time——Xi Yazhou knew that instead of instilling the concept of what time and minutes, It's not as useful as being so subtle.

The members of the work team have put a lot of enthusiasm into this education plan, and the curriculum is arranged to emphasize simplicity and practicality. The main content of the current stage is literacy and calculation.

General Chinese reading needs to master at least 500 basic Chinese characters, so Wang Luobin's literacy plan is based on 500 basic Chinese characters.For this school, he went back to Bairen City on purpose, and found two suitable textbooks from the computer database of the intelligence data group: the 1959 edition of "Rural Literacy Textbook" and the 1971 edition of "Practical Mathematics in Rural Areas". It is a textbook specially edited for rural education in those days, which is easy to understand and highly targeted.Especially in rural practical mathematics, there are not only simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but also practical content such as calculation of mu yield, volume calculation, and simple geometric measurement.

However, there are many words and sentences with a strong color of the times in these two textbooks, such as "the great leader ***" and "in the great proletarian ***..." Zhou Dongtian asked him to print 30 sets.

"30 sets?" Zhou Dongtian was getting a little stingy now—his paper reserves hadn't been replenished yet.And these are two books, not a few pages of documents or folios.

"Yes, 30 sets, primary textbooks. The sooner the better!"

Zhou Dongtian flipped through the manuscript and saw that there were many illustrations in it, so he couldn't help hesitating. The workload of drawing alone is quite heavy.Still, he promised to deliver the finished product as soon as possible.

However, in the textbook, Wang Luobin added the teaching content of Hanyu Pinyin in elementary school Chinese——Wang Luobin has always believed that simplified characters and Hanyu Pinyin are the two magic weapons for the popularization of basic education in New China.

He showed this set of textbooks to Zhang Xingjiao, and as expected, he was opposed by the middle-aged boy. In Zhang Tongsheng's view, these "vulgar characters" are not shocking, but as an education, he objected to the "vulgar characters" Included in the textbook - "Misunderstanding the children." He commented.

Wang Luobin said that this is mainly to simplify education and make it easier for children to read and write. Besides, the purpose of educating these children is not to take the imperial examinations and recite poems. They only need to be able to write names, write letters, and read some simple books.

However, Zhang Xingjiao still finds it awkward. In fact, he knows almost all these simplified characters. In his opinion, simplified characters can only be used for use, not for style: "The students you teach in this way will make people laugh to death. The articles you write are generally The articles are all in vulgar characters, even if others don’t make fun of them, we are ashamed to be teachers.” As he spoke, his emotions became agitated, as if he wanted to defend the traditional characters to the death.

Zhang Xingjiao also disapproved of the literacy textbooks. In his opinion, it is enough for children's education to use thousands of characters and hundreds of surnames, and the newly compiled books are superfluous.Seeing the beautifully printed literacy textbook, he exclaimed that it was a pity—and criticized many phrases and sentence patterns in the textbook as "unreasonable".

After Wang Luobin endured Zhang Xing's pickiness for more than an hour, he proposed a fair competition to him: each of them will lead a class, and see who can learn to read and write first.Zhang Xingjiao was taken aback for a moment.He carefully read the literacy textbook again, and said after a while: "Your set of simplified characters is easy to recognize and write. Naturally, you took the lead..."

"That's right, our set of simplified characters has the advantage of being easy to learn and remember. People don't need too much advanced knowledge. Literacy is just for the convenience of life." Wang Luobin explained patiently.Zhang Xingjiao was the first intellectual they had in-depth contact with. His attitude can roughly tell what kind of views the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty had on the culture of the traversers.

After some persuasion, Wang Luobin took another step back: Zhang Xingjiao was still reluctant to propose teaching simplified and traditional characters at the same time, but it is commendable that these overseas people can run schools for poor children.Besides, I am also someone else's subordinate, so I can't make too much trouble.Thinking of this, he finally agreed to assist Wang Luobin in teaching.The ancient scholars still had a little sense of responsibility to educate the common people, unlike the modern ones who became teachers for the salary of guaranteed income in drought and flood and winter and summer vacations.

But to Wang Luobin, he was not satisfied.He couldn't really convince a small Ming intellectual to accept his argument.

In order to avoid interference, at the initial stage, he started teaching the pinyin letters and taught the children to learn the pronunciation of the pinyin letters. Once they have learned the pinyin, they will also master the correct pronunciation of Mandarin.After all, the traversers need to use Mandarin for education.Children's language learning ability is far better than that of adults, and education can get twice the result with half the effort.

From Zhang Xingjiao's point of view, Wang Luobin's teaching method is completely unimaginable.Confucian students like Zhang Xingjiao have received indoctrination since ancient times. Students start reading the Three-Character Classic, Thousand-Character Classics, Hundred Surnames, and Child Prodigy Poems. Don't talk about it, just take the children to read a paragraph every day, and let the children read and recite repeatedly.This kind of teaching usually does not end until the completion of the "Four Books".The average student can recite the Four Books fluently, and knows almost all the characters.

But Wang Luobin started to teach from the crooked and ghostly symbols that he didn't understand at all in class. What, oh goose, he also made a lot of beautiful cards: the word e is a goose, which is very intuitive to teach music When it came out, the students memorized these things like singing, and then used these characters to mark and read each word.Seeing this use, Zhang Xingjiao suddenly realized that the pinyin letters that Chief Wang talked about all day long were used for phonetic notation, similar to the tangent and fantangent learned by literati. (Note: There are many ways for the ancients to mark the pronunciation of characters. The most common method is to use tangent and antitangent. It is compulsory to study ancient Chinese in the Department of Chinese.)

However, Zhang Xingjiao also admitted that after learning this set of "pinyin letters", the recognition of new characters is much faster.Even some brighter children can recognize characters by themselves directly according to the pinyin marked in the textbook.This quick method made him very interested, and he kept asking Wang Luobin which great Confucian thought it up.Wang Luobin said that this set of pinyin and simplified characters was developed by the overseas "Wen Dawei", a great Confucian who spent his whole life - the purpose is to make Chinese people all over the world able to read and write.Zhang Xingjiao is in awe of such a great ideal.

(End of this chapter)