Chapter 204: The Righteousness of the Young Master
Li Nian added: "The teaching materials should also be divided according to different school ages and different knowledge. They need to be from easy to difficult, from easy to deep."
" Beginners should learn the basic content first, and then learn deeper knowledge after passing the examination. They should not mix all the content in one place, otherwise it will be difficult for the teacher to teach and the students will be more difficult to teach. It will be difficult to learn.”
“In Li’s opinion, the teaching materials can be divided into primary school, middle school and university.”
“Elementary school aims at reading and literacy, mastering superficial knowledge and laying a solid foundation. ; When you enter middle school, you will add more in-depth content to the basics of elementary school; after middle school, you will need to take a major exam, and the best ones will go to university to further acquire more profound knowledge. "
“Elementary schools, middle schools and universities are all divided into academic years, and the difficulty of the content learned in each year should also be different. For example, primary school is designated as three years. When we compile textbooks, we want students to master what they have learned at this stage of primary school, which can be divided into For students to learn in three school years.”
“Each school year or after completing a certain learning goal. Students must be assessed not only to understand the teacher's teaching situation, but also to understand the student's learning situation. Only those who pass the exam can enter the follow-up study, and those who fail will be punished. "
Examination-oriented education is criticized by some people in modern times. is worthless, but it is indeed an effective way to quickly eliminate illiteracy and select talents from the general public.
On the other hand, the happy education advocated is something that only rich people can afford, and rich people don’t play this way at all. On the contrary, they will get more involved. If the people at the bottom really believe it, they will only be miserable.
Look at those people in the West who are not illiterate under happy education, but their behavior is no different from that of illiteracy.
The difficulty in compiling the teaching materials this time is to divide the teaching materials into subjects and grades.
It's not that Li Nian can't do it alone. At worst, he can copy and modify it according to the teaching materials of later generations to suit this era.
Just like that, the resources of hundreds of families cannot be mobilized for use.
The various schools of thought include the vast majority of people who are educated and literate in the world today. If this power cannot be utilized, but is instead left aside, it will not only be a waste, but also harmful.
Because they would definitely think that Emperor Qin and Li Nian were going to depose them and set up a new school to replace them.
In this case, there will inevitably be confrontation and resistance, but if you let them participate, you can not only borrow their resources and strength, but also prevent this kind of psychology.
Even if the textbook is compiled and turned into a new study and popularized all over the world, they have also participated, and their contribution and sweat are included in it, so it does not mean that they have been dismissed and abolished.
It is easy to talk about the investigation of objects and arithmetic, but it is not easy for Li Nian to handle moral education, history and geography alone.
There is a gap of more than two thousand years from the era when Li Nian came from. There are differences in terrain and climate. If Li Nian compiled geography textbooks based on the conditions of later generations, there would definitely be many errors and omissions.
History is the same, like the history of Xia, Shang and Zhou, it has been a long time ago in later generations. The information is incomplete and distorted. Some things are difficult to explain clearly, but it is different for the people of this era.
To them, the Spring and Autumn Period is like yesterday, and the Warring States Period is like yesterday. Their knowledge of these histories is obviously better than that of Li Nian.
Li Niandao: "I know that some people come to participate in this Xianyang exam with the intention of governing the country and the people. Therefore, I am not forcing you to comply with the compilation of new characters and textbooks."
"Now that the country has been unified for less than half a year, there is a shortage of officials and minor officials. If you have the ability to govern the local area, Li hopes that you will go to the local area to preside over the government, manage people's livelihood, and run the affairs of the people. "
"However, if you don't want to go to the local government, please help Li. Your Majesty has decreed that everyone who edits and edits books here will have an official salary and a rank." Li Nian didn't want so many people to stay here to revise books. He wanted some people to go to local places to serve as officials. Although compiling new characters and teaching materials was a good thing, it was also necessary to govern the place and protect the Qin Dynasty from collapse.
In Li Nian's mind, those who want to be officials should become officials, and those who don't want to be officials should come and compile characters and textbooks.
He added: "The hundreds of schools of thought that come to Xianyang this time should be here for paper. All the hundreds of schools of thought here today can get the paper they need for hundreds of volumes of classics of each school."< br>
Without profit, only caring about sentiments and morals, talking about ideals and repaying losses, it is true that these people can do things, but how can they have high motivation to draw a pie and pay wages at the same time?
“After that, each faction will be given a share of 100 volumes every year. In addition, if you still need paper, you need to buy it yourself or exchange it with points.”
“As for everyone’s worries about the Baijia Association After being banned, Li has advised His Majesty to build a hundred schools of thought in Xianyang, where you can set up institutes to study your own doctrines, or exchange and debate with other schools of thought."
Most of the hundreds of schools of thought will disappear sooner or later, but their thoughts and doctrines will slowly be unified and blended into one or several.
This is a historical trend, and there will not always be a situation where hundreds of schools of thought flourish and all schools of thought compete.
Even if Dong Zhongshu had not put forward the idea of "deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", someone in history would have destroyed Confucianism, and the other hundreds of schools would not have always existed. They would have decided on a new king's school. , and then this school of thought came up with the idea of “deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting them alone.”
It seems that Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism coexisted in later dynasties, but in fact, Buddhism and Taoism can exist. One reason is that they also have religious attributes, and they can continue to exist if some people believe in them. Unlike some hundreds of schools of thought, because there are no No one believed in human learning, and Confucianism became the mainstream again and could only gradually disappear into history.
But even so, Buddhism and Taoism also integrate each other and the content of Confucianism, and they are no longer pure Taoism and Buddhism.
They are all a hodgepodge, but as long as the fundamental core of the doctrine remains unchanged, then I will still be me and not someone else.
Many schools of thought are destined to be buried in history, and Li Nian’s compilation of new textbooks will accelerate this demise.
Knowing that hundreds of schools of thought would eventually die out, Li Nian could not help but feel a sense of regret.
The various schools of thought once created the most splendid page of Chinese civilization. Even in modern times, the theories of various schools of thought are of great use, but this page will eventually be turned.
The doctrines and thoughts of the various scholars will continue to exist, but the schools they established will wither away. They will no longer be like today. This person comes from Confucianism, that person comes from Mohism...
But as long as the doctrines and ideas are still there, and later people know and understand them, the hundreds of schools of thought are not really far away. As long as the Chinese civilization survives, they will always be there, just in a different way!
Li Nian gathered his thoughts and bowed to everyone in the audience: "I have finished speaking. If you have any questions, you can discuss them by yourself first, and then ask me again after half an hour."
Seeing Li Nian finish speaking, everyone in the audience was silent for a few breaths, and then someone stood up He stood up and saluted Li Nian: "Young Master has both great talent and great righteousness. Please accept my respect!"
Although compiling new characters and compiling teaching materials are of little benefit to Baijia, it is actually harmful. , but Li Nian’s starting point is not for his own selfishness, but for the whole world.
Others also stood up and saluted Li Nian in unison: "Young Master is a righteous man, please accept my respects from me!"
(End of this chapter)