Chapter 400 Willing to Give My All

Xiang Shangcai came back from Tiantai County and was drafted again. He and Wei Fuchang were responsible for building school buildings.

The school building was still built near the market town.

With the training ground and Ma Xin and others, parents felt more at ease when their children came to class.

Gu Hongde was in charge of enrollment. As soon as he arrived in the market town and sat down in the position responsible for enrollment, he was surrounded by mountain people who came to inquire about the news.

Dozens of village heads from Lianzhai also flocked to the service center of the market town. Su Qingmei held a meeting with them for two full days.

"President, are you really going to accept both boys and girls?"

"Yes."

"Really not charging tuition?"

"No. But tuition and miscellaneous fees are still charged."

"It should be. If you don't charge tuition, where will the salaries of the teachers come from?"

"The market town has made a lot of money in the past two years. Take it from the people and use it for the people. Pay it from the income of the market town."

"President, you are righteous!" Voices came one after another.

Su Qing'an raised her hand and pressed: "What do you think of this? What is the reaction of the village?"

"Of course we support it very much. We didn't catch up with the good times and became blind, but their generation caught up with the president to make us rich. Now everyone is living a good life, so naturally we want our children to have a bright future. Since seeing the notice posted by the president, the threshold of our house has been trampled flat. People come to ask for news every moment, and we almost can't go out.

"So everyone wants to send their children to study?"

They nodded: "Yes! Some families need the help of their children, and those who can't spare the money at home are also hesitant. "

"Yes. I understand, don't force it. It's not necessary to read and write to have a future and survive. Don't let this matter make the family unable to survive. It will cause trouble to everyone. "

"Yes. "

Su Qing'an knew that some people would not send their children here for various reasons, such as the long distance, being reluctant to spend money, having many children at home, or having a younger child at home and needing older children to help with housework, for various reasons.

Even with the nine-year compulsory education in modern times, many children in remote rural areas cannot go to school, let alone in the current environment.

What happens after they learn to read and write?

There may not be many people in the mountains who want to send their children to take the imperial examination. And the current environment does not allow it. Even if they pass the imperial examination, which dynasty and which emperor will they serve?

Su Qing'an does not intend to force everyone.

But now everyone can eat well, the conditions are comfortable, and families who love their children will think one step further for their children. And if everyone around sends their children to study, their own children will watch eagerly, and there will be a way out. The crowd effect is there.

Su Qing'an had read the personnel files of each village before, and she had a rough idea of ​​how many children of school age there were.

At this meeting, she counted the number of children who were willing to go to school. She had to arrange a lot of things next, and the number of students was the key.

The school building was quickly filled with people.

When everyone heard that there was no charge for sending children to school, anyone who wanted to send their children to school volunteered to help, and they didn't even want to be paid, but just followed to work.

Xian Niang found two people from her family to be female teachers with her, and also hired people in the village to help with housework.

Her mother-in-law was very open-minded. When she heard that the lady wanted to ask her daughter-in-law to be a female teacher, she was very happy and supportive. She took the two children over and only pushed Xian Niang to Su Qing'an to get the job.

And Gu Hongde also sent male teachers The recruitment is done.

Originally, three were wanted, but five of them were very qualified. Su Qingmei counted the students who registered and estimated that there would be thousands of students in the forty-five villages. So the five qualified male teachers were kept.

Including Gu Hongde, there are nine in total. If there are thousands of students, these nine teachers may not be enough. However, there are few people in the mountains who can read and have read books, so it is good to be able to pick out these nine teachers. I will look for them slowly in the future when I am too busy.

The next thing is the book.

Su Qingmei called the nine teachers and asked them about the teaching materials. After discussing it, they decided to start teaching from three hundred and thousand.

Su Qingmei had sent Qingyang to a private school before, and she also learned about the education of private schools.

Nowadays, children still start with recognizing words. From the initial "three, hundred, thousand" to "Famous Xian Ji, "Child Prodigy Poems", to "Five-Character Miscellaneous Characters", "Seven-Character Miscellaneous Characters", etc. This is the first stage, first of all, literacy education.

The education of this period, or books, has a common feature, that is, the sentences are short and neat, the four tones are clear, the level and oblique tones are opposite, the syllables are easy to read, and the characters are large.

Even if the children are not very smart, it is easy to read, catchy, and they can read it quickly.

And when the sentences are read well, the characters will be remembered.

This stage makes full use of the characteristics of Chinese and Chinese characters, monophonic and four-tone syllables, and gives full play to the characteristics of strong memory in childhood, and also fully avoids the shortcomings of poor comprehension in childhood, and avoids using obscure knowledge, which leads to children's aversion to learning.

This period mainly emphasizes the development and training of children's memory, so as to achieve strong recognition and memorization, and achieve the purpose of literacy.

After completing the first stage of literacy education, the second stage begins to carry out reading education. Read and recite and understand. These are books such as "Four Books" and "Five Classics".

After reaching a consensus with several gentlemen, Su Qingmei thought about where to buy these "three hundred thousand" books.

Books in this era are still quite expensive, and she bought so many at once, the quantity was large, so she had to find a large merchant to help her get the goods.

Su Qing'an was still thinking about where to buy so many books and whether to ask her godfather for help, when Shopkeeper Ding came to her.

"Madam Su has done another good thing for the mountain. I admire her very much. I am ashamed of my noble character."

"Shopkeeper Ding is too kind. I just saw a bunch of children doing nothing at home. The younger ones can't help the family. I thought of gathering them together to learn a few words so that they won't be blind."

"I admire Madam Su's foresight. In the future, under the governance of the King of Yue, Yue will surely prosper and will definitely need a lot of talents. Madam Su has trained these students well. Is she still afraid that the King of Yue will lack people? Madam Su is now the princess of Yue. This is a real long-term plan for Yue."

Ah, she didn't think that far.

It's just that the adults in the mountains are busy and the children are left alone. They are throwing tantrums in the mountains. She can't stand it.

"Manager Ding, you are too kind. I came here today..." She was embarrassed by his praise.

"I heard that Madam Su was worried about the books for the students. Manager Li got the news and sent a message saying that Yongfeng is willing to help her and purchase the school records for her. We will only charge the cost and will not make a penny from her."

So good? So noble?

Su Qingmei looked at him, her face unchanged.

"Manager Li said that we have been very happy to cooperate with Madam Su in recent years. Our Yongfeng has also made a lot of money because of Daqing Mountain. We have become one of the best businesses and we also want to give back to the mountain people."

Su Qingmei looked at him steadily. Manager Ding felt uneasy when she looked at him, but he did not show it.