"Universal education?" Li Shimin sat up straight, thought for a while, and said: "Xia Qing seems to have said that a teacher, a professor, an educator, and a cultivator. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Xia Qing means...... If we want to enlighten the people's wisdom, we must spread the word education all over the world, so that all the people in the world can accept this 'education'? ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the universal education that Weichen said, simply put, as Your Majesty said, is to let the people of the world receive education and learn knowledge, and everyone in the world has knowledge, and with learning, the wisdom of the people will naturally be opened." ”

"This ...... All the people in the world have gone to study and become masters, who will join the army? Who goes to be a craftsman? Who goes to farm? Who goes into business? ......" Li Shimin frowned and said: "The four people in the world, Shinong and industrialist, are indispensable, if they all go to study, there will be problems!" ”

"Your Majesty, the so-called "let the people of the world learn" is not to order the people of the world to become scholars. The universal education that Weichen said is to enable the people of the world to have a certain degree of basic culture after learning, and these knowledge are only the foundation, and it does not prevent them from becoming anything in the future. Of course, in today's society, because among the four people in the world, only scholars are superior to others, and people naturally want to become scholars. When the difference between the social status and respect of the other four people is not so huge, people will not be able to go their own way. ”

Li Shimin leaned back: "Xia Qing continued." First of all, let's talk about Xia Qing's policy of popularizing education. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin: "Universal education should be a national policy. The State provides a certain level of general education to all school-age children within its territory. This kind of education is for all children of the right age, and at the same time, the level of this education is only a basic, elementary education. School-age children receive primary education arranged by the State within their school age, and after the completion of primary education, if they have the ability and conditions, they can choose to continue to receive secondary education and higher education, complete higher education, and then become a member of the scholarly class. After completing primary education, you can enter the society and become a farmer, a merchant, a soldier, a craftsman......"

"You're saying that universal education is only for children?" Li Shimin asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty. The state has adopted a certain age as the school age, let's say seven years old! Children who have reached the age of seven must attend the schools set up by the state in various places. The duration of primary education can be five or six years, during which time basic knowledge is taught to them through chairs arranged by the state, according to the textbooks established by the state. When the time is up, those who pass can continue to advance to a more advanced and difficult secondary education through examinations and other forms. Secondary education also has a certain number of years, let's say three years. Then, after the same examination, people are selected to receive a deeper level of higher education. In this way, if a few generations have passed, then the people of the whole society, regardless of all walks of life, are at least people who have received primary education. ”

"I heard Xia Qing divide this education into primary, secondary and high, and talk about it in detail." Li Shimin asked.

"Yes. These three levels are the three progressive levels that Wechen divides according to the difficulty, depth and bias of the knowledge taught. Primary education, also called primary education, or basic education, is an education that enables the educated to lay a foundation of cultural knowledge and prepare for initial life, and is aimed at young children who have just begun to get in touch with life. Secondary education, on the other hand, is an education that continues on the basis of primary education. It undertakes the dual task of sending qualified new students to higher schools and cultivating labor reserve forces for national construction, and can also be subdivided into some specialized education that only teaches one or a few kinds of technology, and undertakes the task of training secondary professional and technical personnel for various sectors of the national economy. As for higher education, it is to train high-level specialized personnel, and to cultivate high-level talents who are proficient in a certain field of knowledge and have very in-depth research. Between the three stages of education, through selection activities such as examinations, students who are suitable for promotion to the next level are selected. ”

It sounds like Xia Qing divides education into three stages, from difficulty to superficiality and refinement. The first stage is to let people have basic knowledge and the ability to live. The second stage is more in-depth than the first stage, and the people who come out are more knowledgeable than the people in the first stage, and they will also learn some specific techniques. The third stage is the most difficult to achieve, but once it is reached, it is the most in-depth and delicate education, and the people who are taught are the most knowledgeable. Li Shimin nodded and said.

Xia Hongsheng nodded and said, "That's right!" Your Majesty, in fact, now on Wechen's Zhuangzi, Wechen has already begun to try to do this. ”

"Oh?!" Li Shimin was very interested: "How did Xia Qing do it?" ”

Xia Hongsheng said with a smile: "On Weichen's Zhuangzi, Weichen has built a school. Then among the households of Wechen, there are children who reach the age of five or six, and they must go to the first school to study, which is mandatory, and it is impossible not to go. If the family doesn't send the child who has reached the age of age, Wechen will punish his family. The children went to school in the first school, where they were taught some very basic enlightenment knowledge, from the most basic arithmetic to the most basic scriptures, and so on. In the past five years, WeSon will give exam papers to these children in the school to take the exam. Those who pass will enter another school established by Wechen and continue to learn more difficult and in-depth knowledge. And those who don't pass will return home and do whatever they have to do. Of course, all the money needed during this period was provided by the ministers, and these children's families were not allowed to contribute a penny. And those who enter the second school, after a few years of study, Weichen will take another exam for them. Those who pass can enter Jingyang Academy and receive education from the academy, and those who fail will disperse. In this way, the best among the children will enter Jingyang Academy to receive the education of the academy in the future and become malleable talents. And those who fail to enter the academy are the least poor, and they can also read and write broken sentences, and have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Even if you go to be a farmer, a craftsman, or a farmer in all walks of life, you are at least a farmer or craftsman who knows how to read and write, has some basic knowledge, and can distinguish between right and wrong...... Their children will still be like this, after several generations, there will be no more people who are frightened and deceived by a few natural phenomena in the Zhuangzi of Weichen and Weichen. (To be continued.) )