Children of aristocratic families, even if they are born as commoners, still have teachers in their families who have enlightened them.
Naturally, no one will come to attend the elementary school organized by Cui Jun.
They can't afford to lose this person.
But ordinary people do not know how to read. Even if someone told them that they can now send their children to the elementary school run by the Chang'an Order, they would not send their children there.
Children as young as seven or eight can already help with some light work at home.
And they don’t think there is any use in sending children to study.
In the minds of most people, the fate of their children is already determined as soon as they are born.
For the common people of the Han Dynasty, whatever their parents do is what their children will do in the future.
The father is a blacksmith, and when the children grow up, they become blacksmiths.
If the father is a carpenter, the child will be a carpenter in the future.
Does reading change your destiny?
How can ordinary people think about this?
They don’t have the money to support their children in studying.
Not to mention giving it to private school teachers, they can’t come up with it, and they can’t come up with the pens, inks, paper and inkstones they’ll need for future studies.
Even if the whole family scrimps on food and clothing, it will be difficult to provide a child who can study.
Those so-called children from poor families are either in decline or have elders who have no official positions in the family.
But their family's money is richer than that of ordinary people.
My life was very tight, but I could afford the teacher's money and buy pen and ink.
Many people cannot even be called poor.
Just at the bottom, living strong for the sake of food.
They can't change their destiny, and neither can their children.
Unless this world has been changed.
Even though Cui Jun stated on the notice that children entering elementary schools do not need to pay any fees, there were still not many people who signed up.
Cui Jun asked people to count the number of children under the age of ten in Chang'an City.
Wang Ding had asked Sima Lang to re-calculate the household registration in Chang'an City.
Cui Jun now only needs to have people register the household registration information one by one.
The people in Chang'an City now have a population of nearly 300,000, including more than 20,000 children under the age of ten. After excluding those under the age of six, and counting those between the ages of six and ten alone, there are a total of 11,350.
One person.
This number may not be very accurate. After all, the household registration information was collected by Sima Lang last year.
In the past so long, many children may have died in infancy, and some children came to Chang'an from other places with their parents.
But the difference in numbers won’t be too big. Just around 10,000.
There were 10,000 people, but only a dozen people came to sign up.
This is a resident relatively close to Chang'an Ling Yamen.
There are three things that a new official should do when he takes office, but Cui Jun feels like he can’t burn the first thing.
His face is very ugly.
Even though Wang Ding said that even if this matter fails, he will not be blamed, but now that he has agreed, Cui Jun still wants to run this elementary school.
Things are difficult to do, but Cui Jun also knows that this is a good thing.
Throughout the ages, no emperor has dared to say that all children in the world can read and study.
At most, they can just shout loudly to ensure that the people of the world can have enough to eat, but there is no emperor who can truly achieve this.
Wang Ding wants all the children in the world to be able to read and write. In Cui Jun's opinion, this is more difficult than feeding the people in the world.
Before this, he had never thought about it, nor did he dare to think about it.
As a child of the Cui family, Cui Jun has lived a privileged life since he was a child. He has never thought about how ordinary children should study.
But now, he only met Wang Ding once and talked for a long time. Cui Jun has changed.
Things are difficult, but eventually someone has to do it.
He will do a little today, and the next Chang'an order will do a little more tomorrow.
As Wang Ding said, there will come a day when all children in Chang'an can read and be literate.
From Chang'an, to Jingzhao, then to Fufeng County, then to Fengyi County, one city, one county and one state, slowly advancing.
This is a century-old plan, and its success does not need to be immediate.
Cui Jun didn't want to be looked down upon by Wang Ding, so he continued to have people put up notices. Notices about Meng Xue were posted everywhere in Chang'an City, with at least a dozen posted on every street.
The publicity is in place, but there is still no significant increase in the number of people signing up.
There are almost 10,000 young people of the same age in the city, and Cui Jun didn't even think about enrolling all these 10,000 young people into elementary schools for the first time.
But he also set a small goal for himself. This first period of elementary education must recruit at least a thousand students.
But now, the number of people who have signed up has not exceeded a hundred.
Cui Jun really didn't expect that one day, he would beg people to come to study and learn to read, but no one was willing to come.
These days, Cui Jun has been worried to death.
He has tried every means, and he is even thinking about whether to force the children of school age to be directly sent to elementary schools.
It doesn’t matter whether their parents agree or not.
Wang Ding was walking on Chang'an Street. If he took just two steps, he could see the notice on the wall for elementary school students. Wang Ding was very satisfied with Cui Jun's efficiency.
He walked all the way to Chang'an Lingzhi Yamen.
When he came to Cui Jun's office, he asked with a smile: "Sir, are you still used to it these days?"
Cui Jun's eyebrows were almost twisted together, and he forced a smile and said: "
I’m pretty used to it.”
He was embarrassed to tell his difficulties because he didn't want Wang Ding to underestimate him.
When he first came to Chang'an, Wang Ding gave him such an important task. Cui Jun has always thought highly of himself and he didn't want to admit that he was not good.
Wang Dingdao: "I see notices for Meng Xue everywhere on the street. When does the teacher expect the school to officially start, I will also be able to attend the opening ceremony."
Cui Jun hesitated for a moment and said: "School will definitely be able to start within half a month."
Wang Dingdao: "Then school will start in half a month, and there will be news about our husband."
Wang Ding did not stay in the Yamen for long, and left after having a conversation with Cui Jun.
Recently, I feel that there are more and more things going on. Wang Ding always feels that there is not enough time. Occasionally, he has to go to the palace and play a game of killing bandits with Liu Xie.
Wang Ding also didn't understand whether it was these entertainment games that really made Liu Xie lose his mind playing with things, or whether Liu Xie was just trying to survive.
At least now, the relationship between them is very harmonious.
After Wang Ding left, Cui Jun became more and more sad.
I feel a little regretful because I shouldn't have boasted about Haikou in front of Wang Ding just now.
Not to mention half a month, even if he is given a month now, Cui Jun has no way to guarantee that he will be able to recruit a thousand students.
He has already chosen the location of Mengxue. It is near his Yamen. It is not far away and only takes a quarter of an hour to walk.
In addition, the professor's husband, Cui Jun, was also invited, and there were more than twenty in total.
Now we are left with students.
So far, there are only 78 people who have signed up to participate in the elementary school.
According to his point of view, if there were free admission and teachers to teach, those children who could not study would be better off rushing to sign up.
The result was completely different from what he imagined.
Due to family reasons, there are still too few children who really want to read and become literate.
Their parents don't understand the use of reading and literacy, and they themselves don't understand it at all.
Those children who have no money but want to study and be literate, and who secretly hide outside private schools and eavesdrop, are really rare.
It is so scarce that you can hardly see it in Chang'an City.