Wang Qi made some mistakes. The mechanism of Fountain of Youth Academy has developed to a very high level, even beyond the limitations of the times.
Academic exchange is not just about throwing Wang Qi and a few in the library, there are also a lot of discussion and exchange meetings.
For example, visits and discussions on teaching models.
Li Xiang has never participated in the teaching work of the Magic Academy and does not know enough about the overall operating mechanism. This task can only be done by Wang Qi himself.
The teaching methods of the two colleges are quite different.
The arrangement of Fountain of Youth Academy is that the first grade is all about basic knowledge learning courses, and after the second grade, almost all are practical courses. After that, the teacher is responsible for magic demonstrations and answering questions.
"Teacher, why can't my mage's hand be separated from the body to pick up something a little further away?" "Because your mental strength is not enough and you need higher concentration to complete such actions. It is recommended to increase the meditation time."
Similar conversations obviously cannot be applied to students with different hobbies.
For this reason, the question and answer courses after the second grade are divided into large classes and small classes.
A department will arrange different "main assignments" for each grade, that is, one or two target magics. The spells corresponding to these assignments will have one morning every month for teacher-student exchanges in the large classroom.
Mini-lessons are for parts other than homework and do not have specific classrooms and time.
A single department of a certain grade that has been narrowed in scope only has a few dozen people in total. The Conjuration Department, Evocation Department, and Transformation Department will have a little more, with only about a hundred people, and two to three teachers will be assigned to ensure that each student Everyone can get at least one one-on-one answer every month.
In addition, Fountain of Youth College does not have a strict graduation time limit. As long as you have money, you can be a student for life.
This system gave Wang Qi the feeling that the master-apprentice system had become academic. In fact, self-study and one-on-one guidance were the main learning methods.
The teaching model of the Black Forest Academy of Magic is inherited from the Magic Weapons Academy. It is a mathematics-driven teaching model that attempts to give students the ability to restore spell models on their own.
This ability to restore is also a reflection of the incomplete documentation of Black Forest Academy. Many so-called magic notes and knowledge are lacking.
Magic and mathematics are related, but not consistent.
For example, both a and b learn [Mage's Hand], and both of them cannot directly sense the magic particles. A can use the visualization model "Δ" to complete the spell release, but b uses "Δ" to complete the spell release. It may not work at all, and may require Use "delta" to visualize. Both are called delta, just in different forms.
The mathematical driving force of Black Forest Academy is to allow students to learn to derive spell models that suit themselves through self-observation and calculation.
This kind of learning process will be a little more risky than traditional learning methods, and the accident rate of spell casting is higher, but from the perspective of lifelong learning, the overall advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
In this mathematical driving force model, there is a very critical issue - the accuracy of problem solving.
Without computer assistance, no one can guarantee 100% accuracy in solving problems with pure mental power. Even experts who can create their own mathematical tools sometimes have doubts about "the formula is too perfect" and need to check the calculation repeatedly.
As for ordinary magic learners, they cannot reach the level of mathematicians. Even if they are asked to check the calculations by themselves, they may come up with different answers, but they are still wrong.
It produces two results.
First, the study of mathematics will run through the entire learning cycle of Black Forest College. From first grade to graduation, it is a big class.
Although it is impossible to achieve a 100% answer hit rate, at least by gradually improving proficiency, errors can be reduced.
The second is the atmosphere of mutual learning. It is impossible for teachers to solve problems for every student, and there is no time in Northwest China. Therefore, students need to help each other and form study groups to discuss some problem-solving ideas and check calculations.
This leads to the second difference in the learning models between the two schools, "self-study practice" and "interest groups."
The self-study practice of Fountain of Youth College is, to put it mildly, a sheep-herding model. Whether it can be successful depends largely on the subjective initiative and talent of the students.
The interest groups at Black Forest College are research groups led by professors. Within this framework, students form study groups instead of forming cliques on their own.
This teaching method was also limited by the shortage of teachers in the early days of Black Forest College.
When the academy first opened, except for some specially-appointed professors, many lecturers themselves only had third-level skills, and only mastered two or three third-level spells. They did not have a deep understanding of magic factions at all. Under such preconditions, it was impossible. Let students learn spells of their own choice, otherwise it will easily exceed the instructor's knowledge.
Relying on interest groups, students will be exposed to smaller branches of knowledge than "departments", such as the ice system and fire system under the plasticity department. The boundaries of knowledge are narrowed, and the correlation and commonality between spells are more Obviously, it is helpful for students to speed up their learning progress.
Teachers lead interest groups ranging from a few to twenty or thirty people based on their personal abilities to conduct research on topics. In the process, students may also make money, which is somewhat helpful in increasing their enthusiasm for learning.
"Mathematics... Dean Wang Qi, I have read the information sent by your school. I am afraid that this so-called 'mathematics threshold' is not lower than the so-called 'magic talent'."
The speaker was the vice dean in charge of education at Fountain of Youth College. It was said that the dean was still studying information about the Black Forest and couldn't get away from it.
Regarding this issue, Wang Qi said: "The test of magic talent is difficult to scale. Generally speaking, if I say student A has high talent, you can also say that he cannot continue to learn, and it is not suitable for the college's goal of 'mass production of mages' . Mathematics is a more easily quantified indicator. If you know it, you know it. If you don’t, you can’t pretend to know it.”
Regarding magic talent, there are two standards for general knowledge.
Both are inseparable from the prophecy system.
One was identified using the exploration magic branch [Torrent] of the prophecy system.
[Torrent] is a third-ring spell, a means of identifying magic items, but it is not the only means.
The effect is that certain magic items will experience a state of magic interference when encountering a [flood], resulting in some strange reactions, such as glowing, heating, etc., which is actually a manifestation of the activation of natural magic.
When used on people, normal people will not have any reaction to [Torrent]. For those with strong talents, it will form an effect similar to the [Magic Barrier] passively formed by magicians above the fifth ring.
This so-called [Magic Barrier] can be seen as the automatic stress phenomenon of natural magic on senior mages. In fact, it can only bully children. For example, the magic barrier of a fifth-ring mage can only block one spark trick after another. Even the fireballs of the second ring cannot be completely blocked. Even the barriers of higher-level mages can only withstand very low-level pure energy spells and cannot involve physical strikes.
In short, this is a natural phenomenon that has no practical effect in high-level magicians, and Li Xiang also has it.
There are quite a few pitfalls in this identification method.
First, having magical power or mysterious talent does not mean that the person will be able to learn advanced magic. The brain capacity may not be enough to learn it halfway.
Secondly, [Magic Barrier] cannot be seen by normal people. Except for those with visual talent like Wang Qi who have plug-ins, it requires a fifth-ring mage to perceive it.
Thirdly, normal mages would not learn a three-ring prophecy spell just to do this. After all, prophecy is the most difficult to learn and has the smallest proportion of mages, whether in the exile or the main world. It's okay for the second ring to spend a year or two hoarding basic knowledge and studying, but for the third ring, it's suspected of wasting your life.
Another standard is even more deceptive, that is to find a real prophet to observe whether the target will become a mage in the future.
The starting threshold for "Observing Destiny" is the fifth ring. For a child who has not yet begun to learn magic, apart from being the biological son of a fortune teller, what status must he have to be able to invite him? This kind of "talent" may not be able to reach double digits in the entire main world. If he can really learn magic, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a son of the plane.
