Chapter Twenty-Three: Education Begins with Childhood
After Han Cheng and Wu confirmed this matter, they called the senior brother who was the leader of the tribe, and the three of them discussed and formulated a method together.
The elder brother is also very curious about the language and words of God, but he is far less enthusiastic than Wu.
After all, his main duty is not to inherit the written language, but to lead the people to fish and hunt and find enough food for the people.
After Han Cheng expressed the meaning of the phrase 'education should start from the baby' through the language of the tribe and gestures, these minors in the tribe were punished.
In the past, they didn't have much to do, especially in winter, they ate and played, they fell asleep when they were tired, they played again when they woke up, and they waited for dinner when they were hungry.
Not now, because they need to learn God's language and writing from the Son of God!
There are quite a few minors in the tribe, as many as thirty-five! This number is almost as large as the perennial people in the tribe.
There were only forty adults in the tribe, including the witch and the two old men who were in charge of the flames.
This does not include Han Cheng.
Because he has an adult mind, but he has the body of a minor, he really doesn't know what kind of person to put himself into.
Among the thirty-five people, excluding those who are still nursing in their arms, those who have just stumbled and can walk two steps, those who are babbling, and those who are still in a state of ignorance, there are actually only eighteen school-age children, and this includes three who are close to adulthood.
The number of people in the tribe had not been carefully counted before, but after this count, Han Cheng couldn't help but be a little frightened.
He found a serious problem, and that was that the number of minors in the tribe was decreasing with age.
Although there may be occasional fluctuations, the overall trend is constant.
Today, for example, there are roughly 17 children between the ages of 0 and 5, and only 18 between the ages of 5 and 13 or 4.
When he first discovered this phenomenon, he was a little silent, and then he understood that it is not a later generation with worry-free food and clothing, and advanced medical and health conditions, but in the primitive era, where the mortality rate of newborn babies was high, so such a thing happened.
Han Cheng put aside this complicated mood and began to concentrate on teaching Mandarin and Chinese characters.
After all, he is not really a god son, he is just an ordinary person in the later life, and when he crossed over, he didn't hang up.
There are a lot of things, even if he wants to do something, he can't start, he can only start from some aspects and things within his ability, slowly change the tribe, and create good living conditions for himself and the tribe as much as possible.
There are a total of eighteen minors who learned Chinese characters and Mandarin from Han Cheng.
Well, you read that right, it's just that you've gotten rid of all the school-age children in the cave.
Han Cheng's education for them is also like a witch, starting from the 'gloves' and 'socks' that they are already familiar with.
Then there are the body parts of the mouth, nose, teeth, and feet.
The limited tools for writing in the cave is a problem.
After all, before that, writing was a matter for Wu alone, and the rest of the people didn't think about it at all.
It would be unrealistic to give each of these children a large stone slab and let them hold a suitable stone to carve on it, just like witches.
Because it's winter, it's too impractical to go out and look for slates in the snow.
And they are now learning words, unlike Wu, who want to record some knowledge on the stone slab and pass it on to future generations, so the use of the slate is a bit overkill.
Of course, there is another important reason that the writing on the slate can only be written once, which is not easy to erase and is not conducive to multiple uses.
This didn't bother Han Cheng, after years of burning in the cave, a thick layer of powdery firewood ash had accumulated.
He had eighteen one-foot-square squares circled with stones on the floor of his classroom, and then put powdered ash in the boxes, which were smoothed with a branch used as a pen, and then they could be used to write.
After writing, you only need to put the pen in your hand horizontally on it, and after it is smooth, you can continue to write.
Of course, there is a downside to such a writing instrument, that is, as soon as someone sneezes on it, it immediately becomes a burst of grass and ashes.
In fact, Han Cheng originally wanted to make a sand table, but now that it is winter, the sand is frozen, and it is difficult to take it, so he has to use this 'grass ash plate' to replace it temporarily.
Fortunately, it is a primitive era, and it is already good to have a writing instrument, who is still paying attention to it so much?
If you don't believe it, after using the 'grass ash plate' made by Han Cheng personally, he immediately realized its wonderfulness, and asked people to get one in the inner cave where he lived, and he took a branch to write and draw on it when he had nothing to do.
After all, in the past few days, he had followed Han Cheng to learn the words of the gods, and he had already used an entire large stone slab!
Wang Qing's writing instrument is not a 'grass ash plate', this is not because he deliberately wants to be special, but because the grass ash plate can only be placed on the ground, and everyone who wants to see the words needs to gather around and stretch their heads to watch, which is really not good.
He wrote on a stone tablet that was erected in front of the people, and instead of drawing it with a stone pen, he selected charcoal from the ash heap that had not been burned completely, and wrote on it.
Although every time you finish writing, you need to wash your hands with snow, but it is better to clean the handwriting, and use snow and animal skin to wipe the slate, and you can also use it again, which is more convenient.
The children in the tribe need to read, write, and learn to speak the language of God, and Han Cheng did not let go of other adults in the tribe.
However, considering that they need to work, they don't have much time to spend studying, and they are not as malleable as these children, so Han Cheng did not force them to write.
Writing can be done according to personal interests, but learning to speak Mandarin is something that everyone has to learn, and it cannot be discounted!
Well, everyone has to speak Mandarin.
Because this matter was decided by Wu, Han Cheng, and the senior brother as the leader, although many people found it troublesome, they didn't dare to disobey.
Especially after hearing that this language is still the word of God, the resistance becomes even less.
As for Han Cheng, after breaking the ice and taking fish to save the tribe from danger, making socks and gloves to make everyone suffer less from the cold, especially after being crowned by Wu as a god son, no one in the tribe dared to despise him.
So in the process of coaching, nothing happened to contradict the teacher.
As for the lazy children who don't study well, Han Cheng has a way, just let them write the words they have taught but can't write a hundred times, which is enough to change everyone's desertion.
Of course, Han Cheng hadn't taught them to count to a hundred yet, but Han Cheng had a way, he took a hundred small bones from the cave and put them in a pile, and every time he wrote a word, he took one of the bones from the ground and put them back on the animal skin.
As for cheating, how could Han Cheng, who had been educated for more than ten years, not think of a way to deal with it, when he was punished for writing, someone was there to supervise him.
Those who don't report it need to be written together with the cheater, and they will turn up 100 words at a time of cheating......