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. He had allocated all his funds to Song Yingsheng at once. It has been almost a month now and he wanted to see how the progress was.
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 entire corner of the Northeast City, Song Yingsheng started construction. He recruited refugees to set fire to the wasteland, dug ditches for drainage, padded pits, dug wells, and pulled stone rollers to level the ground. It took a 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.
It can change your destiny. A literate person can earn at least one cent and five cents a month. At least survival is not a problem.
Mr. Yang kept his word and gave them no worries. The orphans were raised by the school and directly arranged to work after graduation. This was a good thing that they, the refugees a few months ago, could not have dreamed of.
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". Then looking at the atmosphere around him, he felt that this place didn't look like an academy, but rather like a military camp.
He sent all the orphans of this war to school. Including the children of workers in iron factories and mines, the Tuanlian family numbered more than 3,000 people. Even in later generations, this was the size of a primary school.
Song Yingsheng has been very busy recently. The management of so many children includes dormitories for accommodation, canteens for eating, infirmary and doctors stationed at the school to take care of doctors, bathhouses for bathing, material warehouses, recruiting teachers, and entrusting the craftsman camp to make tables, chairs and benches.
, Yang Fan also asked all the teachers and students in the school to wear uniforms. There are so many things.
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 Tong Sheng to come over. Only then did he sort out the situation and set up the airs.
The house was still under construction, so we had to build a lot of cotton tents to serve as dormitories. There were a lot of old bunk beds and iron wardrobes and lockers inside that were transferred over.
These are scraps collected by scammers from a closed private university. They also include various teaching tools such as blackboards and chalk.
Although Yang Fan is not short of carpenters, Yang Fan doesn't want to waste time. In his opinion, this school is his foundation in the Ming Dynasty and his most important foundation. Naturally, he can come as fast as he can.
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 a thousand words 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 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, will they be considered graduates.
For every student who graduates, the teacher will receive a reward of 50 cents. Then new students will be added. A strong teacher will make a good 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 tael of silver, and if the entire class graduates, there will be a bonus of more than 3 taels of silver. This allows every teacher to teach students with all their heart.
There is a blackboard hanging on a wooden shelf in the tent, and the teacher writes with chalk. Each student is also given a small blackboard, which is also written with chalk. They can continue to use it 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 dollars per roll, so it’s 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. The teaching is left to these old classmates and old scholars. The school only looks at the major exams every six months.
, you can graduate if you pass.
Graduation rate is the performance of faculty.
Smart children can graduate early. There are prodigies everywhere, and there is no distinction between rich and poor.
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 and become teachers themselves. In the future, after graduation, these children will serve as teachers in normal schools, establish normal schools, train new-style teachers, and gradually exclude Confucianism.
Yang Fan's school only teaches knowledge related to production and life. He doesn't waste time learning anything else. His students don't take the imperial examination either. After graduation, they all have a career path.
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. The physical education classes here are directly replaced by military training.
Xinghe Academy implements militarized management. There are five days of marching training every month. We march collectively to the mountains to learn how to shoot muskets and live ammunition.
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 students, 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.
This chapter has been completed!