Continue north.
What Xia Duo saw was still vast fields of wheat and villages in the middle of the vast wheat fields. Going north from Xinqi Village, even though it was only a few villages away, it was obvious that the wheat in the fields was not as plump and mature as the previous ones. .
Maybe it's because the newly developed land is not fertile enough, or maybe it's because the climate in the south is warmer and matures earlier. These are the few thoughts that flashed through Xia Duo's mind when he passed by here.
Although there are no people working in the fields here, you can still see many people in the villages and on the roads.
Xia Duo didn't cast farsight, he just looked at it from a distance with his naked eyes. The people in the village seemed to be chatting in the open space, completely ignoring the big sun above their heads.
As for the people on the road, when Xia Duo passed by them, he could hear from time to time people talking about going to the southside tavern to drink, and about going to the cultural center to see the elves. Most of them were discussing what the upcoming cultural and art festival would be. .
Although Lawrence has sent out a propaganda team more than once, and the people in the territory know how this cultural festival is going to be played, the purpose of holding the cultural festival in the territory is still not clear.
Some people are very confused, is it just for the people to have fun after the harvest of the season? But if that's the case, why not just have a more familiar celebration?
Some people also think that the cultural festival held in the territory may be held for the elves who have appeared in various places in the territory from time to time. After all, what does culture, art, etc. have to do with a group of farmers? Wouldn't letting them participate make the elves laugh?
Of course, what Xia Duo heard from the people about the Territory Culture and Arts Festival was that there must be deep meaning in what the lord does, and the people of the territory only need to follow it.
Xia Duo was both gratified and dissatisfied with this view.
What is gratifying is that most of the people in the territory trust and support him, but what is dissatisfied is that this trust and support seems somewhat blind.
He does not want the people of the territory to make decisions based on "as long as" or "necessary", but "because of" and "talent". He also hopes that the people of the territory will know that the various policies of the territory are for their own good, and the most important thing is of why this is better than it was in the past.
In Xia Duo's hometown, a great man once said, "Six hundred million Chinese people are as good as Yao and Shun" to praise the wisdom of the masses. One of the greatest assets that the old man left to future generations is the mass line.
Rather than treating the masses as fools, we should actively teach them and guide them so that everyone knows the necessary process of social operation, so that each of them can participate through their own labor and wisdom.
Civilization is, of course, not a civilization of one person, but a civilization built and shared by all.
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Walking through villages in the field, Xia Duo saw that almost every village had idle children. In addition to the current busy farm holidays, the most important thing was that the territorial schools were not enough to accommodate all the children.
Currently, children over the age of sixteen in the territory will directly enter the Tower of Time to learn magic, while those under the age of sixteen will receive preschool education in the territory, such as writing, common sense, law, geography, arithmetic, magic, etc.
However, the demand for teachers to offer so many classes is undoubtedly huge. According to Xia Duo, most teachers in Linshui Village University currently take several courses at the same time.
Moreover, while some students are in class, others have to take a vacation, while teachers never have a vacation.
Not long ago, the territory just accepted more than 200,000 new citizens from the three dimensions of Sweetwater, of which children under the age of sixteen accounted for almost one-third!
This once again placed demands on the number of teachers in the territory.
To this end, Leiden's approach was to recruit a large number of people from the territory's citizens who had mastered writing, law, and some basic common sense. Each person was responsible for one task. They would start the fight first and then gradually improve it.
It's just that Xia Duo did not approve this approach. It is true that many people in the territory have passed the literary test and even the legal test, but it is still insufficient for teaching, even if it is only used to teach children.
What Xia Duo hopes more is that every teacher is a mage, or at least a mage apprentice. If he is good at teaching, that would be great.
The reason why all teachers are mages is to provide children with an opportunity to have close contact with magic. Children are in the developmental stage and their ideas are budding. Early exposure to magic can stimulate their interest.
On the other hand, it is to provide a new outlet for the increasing number of new mages in the Tower of Time. In the future, of course everyone must learn magic, but not everyone has potential in magic research.
Through various selections, people with research potential are gathered together, and the remaining people can still promote the development of magic, but they do not necessarily need to engage in specialized research work.
So what do those who have studied magic do?
Now the new mages of the Tower of Time, Xia Duo uses them more as magic technicians. Some of them directly join the Magic Technicians Department, and some of the better ones are absorbed by various independent research laboratories.
There are also some who have joined the Tower of Time Academic Affairs Office and are engaged in teaching work, but they teach mage apprentices and the content they teach is magic.
Almost all jobs are directly related to magic. Even the territorial magic affairs officer, which seems more like a "secular" job, is also engaged in the research, development, promotion and popularization of civilian magic equipment.
Let a mage teach writing, geography, and law. There may be some magic involved, but magic is definitely not dominant. In other words, from the perspective of ordinary people, this is a huge waste of mage talents.
But if you consider the importance of education to a civilization, and the extent to which magic will become more common in the future, this is not a waste.
This is a relatively difficult beginning, but it is also a necessary beginning. In other territories, it would be almost impossible to accept mages teaching ordinary people things that have nothing to do with magic.
Not only the mage himself, but also the people who were taught found it difficult to accept it.
But in the Daxia Territory, these are all possible. First of all, the territorial citizens know what can and cannot be done through written laws such as the Daxia Code that clarify rights and obligations.
Everyone has the right to receive education. The identity of a teacher is not stipulated in the law, so why can't it be a mage?
As for the new mages of the Tower of Time, they grew up in an atmosphere that was different from the traditional apprenticeship system in the past, and Shado consciously spread the idea within the Tower of Time that mages are also ordinary people through joining the academy.
These new mages who grew up from the Tower of Time are very different from those mages outside who are separated from the masses. Not to mention that the Tower of Time also has a special moral education class, which spares time for the apprentices to go home and help their families and the village. live.
How could a new mage who had grown up like this regard ordinary people as nothing? Maybe I look down on ordinary people because of the so-called "intellectual pride", but I definitely don't think that I am not the same species as ordinary people.
(End of chapter)
