The meeting with Baoli lasted all night, and Yang Fan didn't sleep all night, too sleepy.
After the meeting in the morning, I went back to my room and lay down. I slept all morning and didn't get up until noon.
After dinner, Yang Fan decided to inspect the school to see how Xinghe Academy was doing. All my funds were approved to Song Yingsheng at once. It has been almost a month now. Let’s see how it goes.
Taking Mingyan and a few servants, he went out and headed straight to the northeast corner of the city.
The war has ended, regiment training has been turned to organizing production, and Yang Fan's financial investment has begun to be transferred to education.
Because there were too many children going to school, Xinghe Academy moved to the wasteland under the city wall.
After Yang Fan bought the whole corner of Northeast City. Song Yingsheng started construction. Recruit refugees to set fire to wasteland, dig ditches for drainage, pad pits, dig wells, and pull stone rollers to level the ground. It took one month to complete the land leveling.
Three days ago, Yang Fan approved more than 300 demobilized and disabled regiment veterans and 100 newly recruited workers, and the construction speed accelerated instantly.
The veterans were well organized and acted quickly. After receiving the supplies, they surrounded the land with wooden stakes and barbed wire, and dug drainage ditches around the barbed wire. Watchtowers made of wooden frames were also erected at the four corners.
Set up tents inside the enclosed campus, and use tents to build dormitories, classrooms, canteens, bathhouses, and playgrounds. Areas are divided according to functions such as students, teachers, school staff, and offices.
The veterans know that these are the places where their children and the orphans of their comrades who died in the war go to school. Everyone works hard. Not everyone has the opportunity to go to school in this era. Knowledge is real in this era. Can change destiny. A literate person can earn at least one cent and five cents a month. At least survival isn't a problem.
Mr. Yang kept his word and gave them no worries. The orphans were raised by the school and were directly assigned to work after graduation. This is a good thing that they, the refugees a few months ago, could not even dream of finding.
With the speed of setting up camp, they basically built the school to the point where it could be used temporarily in less than three days.
Yang Fan stood in front of the gate and looked at the horizontal plaque on the wooden frame, which read the four characters "Xinghe Academy". Looking at the atmosphere around him, he felt that this place didn't look like an academy, but rather like a military camp.
The orphans of this war were all sent to school by him. Including the children of workers in ironworks and mines, there are more than 3,000 Tuanlian family members. Even in later times this was the size of a primary school.
Song Yingsheng has been very busy recently. The management of so many children includes the dormitories where they stay, the canteen where they eat, the infirmary and the bathhouse where the doctor stationed at the school is responsible for treating patients and bathing, the material warehouse, recruiting teachers, and entrusting the craftsman camp to make tables, chairs and benches. , Yang Fan also asked all teachers and students in the school to uniformly dress. It’s so confusing.
Fortunately, he wrote to some old friends and literati who were familiar with him in the capital, and entrusted him to find some scholars and young students to come over. Only then did he sort out the situation and set up the airs.
The house is still under construction, so we can only set up a lot of cotton tents to serve as dormitories. There are many old bunk beds that were transferred here. And iron wardrobe storage cabinets and the like.
This is a piece of junk collected by a scammer from a closed private university. There are also various teaching tools such as blackboard chalk.
Although Yang Fan has no shortage of carpenters, Yang Fan doesn't want to waste time. In his opinion, this school is his foundation in Ming Dynasty and his most important foundation. Naturally, it comes as quickly as possible.
The classrooms are all temporarily set up in tents, with carbide lamps lit inside. These teachers are here to teach the Thousand-Character Classic, Hundred Family Surnames, Three-Character Classic, etc. Anyway, you can teach whatever you know. As long as you reserve more than 1,000 yuan for the school Just learn all the common words.
The school organizes exams every month to check the progress of students assigned to each teacher. Unqualified teachers will be transferred from their teaching positions and assigned to other jobs.
The school organizes a major exam every six months.
When these children pass the college entrance examination, can read and write independently, and can do simple arithmetic, they will be considered graduates.
For every student who graduates, the teacher will receive a reward of fifty cents. Then new students will come in. A tough teacher and a messy student.
Yang Fan believes that any job must have performance appraisal, otherwise it will be easy to be overstaffed.
For every student who graduates, the teacher will receive one penny, and if the entire class graduates, there will be a bonus of more than three pence. This allows every teacher to do their best to teach students.
There is a blackboard hanging on a wooden stand in the tent, and the teacher writes with chalk. Each student is also given a small blackboard, which is also written with chalk, and can be continued to be used after repeated erasing.
This saves money on pen and ink.
After they all learned more than a thousand common characters, Yang Fan gave them practice cloths and brushes for calligraphy practice. This kind of cloth is used to write with a brush dipped in water. The effect is the same as ink, but when it dries, the writing will disappear and can be repeated. use.
This stuff costs just a few bucks a roll and is perfect for these kids.
If paper were used, the cost for thousands of people would be horrific.
The teaching materials are still being compiled, and it is not possible to formulate unified teaching plans for the time being.
For children under the age of twelve, there are more than thirty people in a class, and one teacher is responsible for teaching and taking care of their lives. These old classmates and old scholars are free to use their teaching skills. The school only looks at the semi-annual major exams, and you can graduate if you pass them.
Graduation rate is the performance of faculty.
Smart kids can graduate early. There are prodigies everywhere, and there is no distinction between rich and poor, high or low.
For these smart children who graduate early, Yang Fan plans to regularly recruit fifty children with outstanding academic performance and open small normal classes.
Systematically study the knowledge of elementary and junior high schools in later generations. Be the teacher yourself. In the future, after graduation, these children will serve as teachers in normal schools, establish normal schools, train new types of teachers, and gradually exclude Confucianism.
Yang Fan's school only studies knowledge related to production and life. Don't waste time learning those things. His students also did not take the imperial examination. Everyone has a job after graduation.
Yang Fan mainly requires students to learn the most basic knowledge such as Chinese and arithmetic here. In addition, he also appoints disabled veterans who have retired from regiment training to be physical education teachers. Physical education classes here are directly replaced with military training.
Xinghe Academy implements militarized management. There are five days of marching training every month. They march collectively to the mountains to learn how to shoot live ammunition with muskets.
The physical education classes usually focus on military training, and there are stabbing classes with wooden rifles every day.
Yang Fan attaches great importance to these schoolchildren, and the money he spends on them is second only to group training. When they graduate one after another, can read and write, and have certain military skills, these people will be the backbone of Yang Fan's collective future.
