Chapter 470 St. Frick's Palace Primary School
As the bell ringer rang the bell representing noon, the workers at several construction sites in the town put down their hammers and axes one after another, and put their arms around each other. He walked towards the shade of the trees and the grass shed.
Different from the past field life, time on Qiumu Island is strictly and clearly divided.
For most farmers, they only have three time points: early morning, noon and evening.
Working when the sun rises and resting when the sun sets is not empty talk.
The monks in the monastery must strictly abide by the chanting time for daily morning prayer, noon prayer, evening prayer, and bedtime prayer.
Anyway, if you don’t pray, you will feel uncomfortable.
Clear observance of time was a unique benefit for monks in the old days, but in the Papal State of Salvation, a country of monks, everyone enjoys the treatment of monks.
Although they are both monks, there is no difference between sitting in the study and writing documents and knocking stones under the sun. They are both contributing to the Holy Father.
What time to start work, what time to eat, and what time to finish work are all prompted by the temporary bell ringer in the city hall.
After all, with clear time, there will be clear working hours, fair wage payment, and efficient working mode and production efficiency.
The rapid progress of the Salvation Army’s civil engineering projects has a lot to do with Horn’s precise time efficiency from later generations.
Today is Saturday, so normally you can rest.
However, since all construction sites are closed on a daily basis, in order to complete the main construction as early as possible before the rainy season, everyone works in light rain and dry weather, heavy rain and dry weather, and continuous work day and night on sunny days.
You must know that many projects were outsourced by Werther to the local lycanthrope king. They brought in a large number of citizens to work, and a single day's delay was not a small expense.
So on the edge of Frick Elementary School, Horn could still see lycanthropes with their tails and ears shaved short, hiding in the shadow of the eaves, madly making potato bread, and then falling asleep.
"In the future, we will have to form a labor department under the Court of Truth." Horn murmured to himself, "The number of people is not large at the moment, so it is easy to manage. When the territory becomes larger in the future, I will turn into a dragon if I can't protect it all." "Nothing."
"Your Majesty?"
"Nothing." Horn raised his head, looked at the sign of Flick Elementary School, and walked towards it.
The young Kush nobles from Jinhe Township and the newly admitted middle school students will be arriving in two days, so Horn is planning to go to Flick Arts and Science Middle School to see the situation.
Passing by Frick Elementary School, Horn thought that since he was here, he would also take a look at the elementary school.
The primary school in front of us occupies a small area. It is basically a two- or three-story wooden house. There are five buildings in total. There is a three-story main teaching building in the middle, and two-story wooden buildings on both sides.
In front of the house is a piece of grassland surrounded by a fence high for one person. A sand pit was dug next to it and a few wooden horizontal bars were made as sports equipment.
Walking among the ruins of bricks and tiles and grass, Horn thought he had reached the rural primary school in the mountainous area.
However, unlike rural primary schools with scattered people, this place can accommodate more than 500 local children aged 8-10 years old.
Because when they get older, they will be forced by their parents to work together.
Currently, Frick Primary School only teaches two subjects, Chinese and mathematics, and provides free lunches. The teaching time is about three years.
Anyway, try to ensure that after leaving school, these children can independently read notices and calculate the amount of taxes and fees payable, so that they are less likely to be deceived by petty officials.
Of course it only teaches Chinese and mathematics, but there are still many hidden subjects.
For example, from time to time, someone will take them to the grassland to practice military posture, or take them to learn chorus.
Some theological and historical knowledge will also be taught in Chinese, while some nature-related knowledge will also be taught in mathematics.
"Where do all the teachers here come from?" Horn asked Rafael standing aside. Since he has stayed in Qiumu Island for a long time, Rafael is considered an authentic Qiumu Islander and is very familiar with this: "Most of the people who teach Chinese are old nuns, and those who teach mathematics are mostly wizards or alchemists. "
"Are the textbooks based on the lesson plan outline I compiled? "
"Yes, Your Majesty, Sirov, compiled two copies of your outline. The textbooks for the third grade will be adjusted based on feedback.”
"Silof again?" Horn was stunned for a while, and suddenly discovered that although Witte was the mayor of the town, he was only responsible for the construction aspect.
Most specific matters, including culture, education, politics, law, security and even scientific research, are all handled by Shilov.
No wonder those elders were obedient and felt like they were being controlled by Horn.
Walking into a classroom, Horn looked at the cramped room and the fluorite inlaid on the walls. He stretched out his hand and stroked the burred desk: "Take a textbook and let me take a look."< br>
After getting the literacy textbook, Horn can see on the first page that "Under the leadership of the great sun, our fellow Horn disciples...the Galar alphabet was created!"
Feeling his face getting hot, Horn quickly turned a page and found several pages of huge Galar letters.
The so-called Galar alphabet is the French alphabet that Horn simplified during his long and bloody march, and then handed it over to the captured monks and priests for further improvement.
Horn asked them to reduce the number of letters and the length of words as much as possible to match the sounds and letters.
To summarize, all multi-stroke letters are changed to less than two strokes, and soft and hard homophone letters are merged into one letter.
If we use the English analogy, for example, a person with a "c" sound is divided into soft and hard, a soft "c" sounds like an "s" sound, and a hard "c" sounds like a "k" sound.
In Horn's simplified flange alphabet, "ice" and "clean" are changed into "ise" and "klean", and then the existence of c is eliminated.
The rest is to eliminate the stubborn diseases that caused unreasonable evolution by mixing a large number of ancient El period and local languages.
Basically, it’s a transformation from Middle English to Modern English, but it’s just more radical.
Mathematics is the most basic primary school mathematics, from the most basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to commutative and associative laws to decimal multiplication and division, area calculation and some simple logic.
"What about the usual night classes and Sunday colleges? Will they buy their own textbooks?" Horn asked, flipping through the literacy textbooks.
The so-called evening classes and Sunday colleges are adult literacy education.
Every night, craftsmen, soldiers and free civilians would go to Frick Elementary School or the nearby Baihu Church to learn literacy.
However, the enthusiasm is not high, and many people just regard this activity as a pastime.
Often the teacher is giving lectures above, while a group of people are chatting and gossiping below.
Had it not been for Werther's strict prohibition on bringing alcohol and food into the venue, they would have treated the night class as a party.
Rafael shook his head helplessly: "Of course I won't buy it. Those with a good attitude will buy some paper and pens. Those with an average attitude will just use a branch to draw on the ground."
"Would the night class teacher just ignore it? "
"Their teachers are all prisoners of nobles in several wars, including some housekeepers and businessmen. The students below may be the ones who captured them in the first place, so how dare they take care of them."
"Okay." Putting down the textbook, Horn stood up, "Let's go to Frick Middle School to inspect it again, and then go back."
(End of this chapter)