Chapter Twenty-Six: Little Chalk, Big Change

After the etiquette was done, Fan Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to let the students open the books and read according to the book, Li Xi said again, "Wait!" ”

patted the big blackboard standing behind Fan Jin in front of the classroom, and Li Xi asked Fan Jin: "You really don't need this thing?" ”

Fan Jin had a bitter face, why did this guy care so much about this thing? Didn't he also go to Mengxue, do you know how Mr. taught? I don't need this thing at all.

Of course Li Shi knew, and just because he knew, he wanted to force Fan Jin to use a chalk blackboard.

"I learned three hundred thousand, and I finished reading for a year and a half, which is not what I want."

Li Shi whispered to Fan Jin, this is the approximate learning system of Mengxue, "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text", each book has to be studied for half a year, and it only requires students to memorize and write silently, have a preliminary interpretation of the words, and do not require students to grasp what philosophy and what central idea in the book.

In Li Xi's view, this kind of "cramming" education, which is close to the later generations, is actually the advantage of private school education, which can make students' foundation very solid, including the later study of "Guwen Guan Zhi" and even "Four Books", which are all such ideas. Take his predecessor "Li Si" as an example, he learned the "Four Books" at the age of ten, the little boy who is a big little kid, understands the Confucian theory of a bird, and the interpretation of the words and sentences in the book is the explanation of Mr. Memorize, and the core requirement is to memorize it well. Wait until you are older to slowly comprehend the connotation.

But the purpose of opening this Mengxue is not to cultivate any Confucian scholars, but to recognize and write as soon as possible, so he went further on this road, to put it bluntly, what he wanted was not to cram, but to blow up balloons.

"The three-character scripture is only one thousand one hundred and fourteen crosses [1], except for the repetitive ones, there are only three or four hundred words to learn, and I want them to learn it in two months at most."

As soon as Li Xian's words came out, Fan Jin's heart that was pulled up by his "governance ceremony" just now suddenly fell, two months?

"Three hundred thousand, I want them to finish it in half a year."

Then Li Shi dug a big pit again, stepped Fan Jin's heart into it, and then filled in the soil and buried it, pressing Fan Jin's eyes black, three hundred thousand in half a year?

"Brother Li, under a shed, how can everyone be fishing?"

No matter how soft Fan Jin's surname is, he will have to protest, but his words are still euphemistic and sour. Li Xian's mind turned around a few times before he realized, this is saying: Do you think that the mud-legged boys in the grass shed are Wang Yuyang? This sour showman, scolding can also scold rhyme.

Wang Yuyang is Wang Shizhen [2], alias Yuyang Shanren, who died last year, the official to the criminal department is still the book, the poetry name is more prosperous than the official name, and he is the leader of the poetry circle of the Kangxi Dynasty. "Li Si", the predecessor of Li Xian, is a scholar, of course he knows this famous character, this is a prodigy who can write poems at the age of eight, can give books at the age of twelve, and publish books at the age of fifteen.

"Not one."

Li Xi is very honest, and he doesn't want anyone to be.

"I said, these are all poor children, and they don't mean to read any bright future, it's enough to be literate and accountable."

Hearing this, Fan Jin's face turned gray, originally he was full of regard for Mr. Mengxue, but people only regarded him as a literate [3], and this job was only a half-year short-term job.

"But there are really good seedlings, and after half a year, there is a foundation, isn't it more convenient to teach?"

Seeing that his face was wrong, Li Shi added another sentence, indicating that he would not only do this study for half a year, and Fan Jin came back with a trace of blood.

"Teach them three hundred thousand in half a year, and I will give another ten taels of silver, and then I will give three times as much as the bundle of repairs!"

Then Li Shi threw out the cake, and the blood on Fan Jin's face suddenly turned red. Three taels of silver a month is too meager for a teacher with the status of a talented teacher. But as a criminal, he didn't dare to publicize it, so he could only go to this poor country to hide, and he could have all this money, and he didn't need money for food, and he didn't need money for his residence, which was already a very good treatment.

And now the conditions given by Li Shi are close to the standard of a normal school teacher, just for the ten taels of silver in half a year, as well as the nine taels of bunch cultivation per month, he Fan Jin also has to fight.

But in a blink of an eye, he looked at the poor boys of different sizes in the classroom, and Fan Jin's burning heart became cold again, and he taught forty boys three hundred thousand in half a year, unless he had three heads and six arms......

"That's why I want you to use this chalkboard."

Keeping Fan Jin's face in his eyes, Li Xi also roughly saw his thoughts, and slapped the blackboard again.

Drove Fan Jin off the "podium" in front of the classroom, and Li Xi stood up.

"How to teach, I'll teach you."

Chalk clicked on the blackboard, wisps of white dust fell.

"My name is Li Shi, Li ...... ......"

Li Xian returned to his teenage years before the time crossing in a trance, and the pencil tip of the girl at the same table and the teacher's chalk head were very painful......

Fan Jin, who was standing on the side, looked at the big characters on the blackboard, and forcibly held back his shaking move, the word Li Xi is really ...... Appalling. Let's not talk about Li Xian's own calligraphy, let's just say that this chalk, the pen is hard, and the skimming hook is also indistinguishable, only the bone is not the flesh, and if you really use this thing, the calligraphy that you have practiced for many years will be ruined.

"Li, the Li of Lao Tzu Li Er, who is Lao Tzu? Taishang Laojun, that's right, Taishang Laojun, and I have the same surname! ”

When Li Shi said this, the students below shouted in unison, Lao Tzu Li Er or something, they didn't know, but Taishang Laojun, few people didn't know. The living Li Xi in front of him, coupled with Taishang Laojun, just blended with the very unfamiliar symbol on the blackboard, although he couldn't write it for a while, it was not difficult to recognize it.

Fan Jin looked at the word, still frowning, these words took away his mind again, and he took a slight breath, whether he believed it or not, the scholars all respected the Buddha, how could it feel a little ...... Licentious?

"No, it's not four, remember it clearly."

Then Li Xi emphasized his "real name".

"What does it mean? Used in the name, it is frank and upright! ”

Li Shi didn't learn from Fan Jin sitting and teaching, so he stood by the bookcase, so that his whole body could be seen by the students.

"That's not right...... it's ......."

Fan Jin continued to mutter, how could there be such a statement? Then I thought about it again, it's okay to interpret the words like this. "Shuowen" said "Wanton, extremely Chen", which means to put it out for everyone to see clearly, this is how the word business came out. It is not wrong for Li Shi to use it on people, and he is pulled together with Tandang Tangzheng.

"I'm afraid it's the ...... that Master Duan explained"

Thinking that Li Xian was originally Li "Four", and this word was changed by his teacher, Fan Jin was secretly relieved, he didn't think that Li Xian had this knowledge, but he didn't know that Li Xian was inconvenient to say anything unscrupulous, so he deliberately pulled it over.

Li Xi wrote another word on the blackboard, the word was too complicated, there was no need to go deep for the time being, and he began to teach the content of the Three Character Classic.

"People", after writing this word, Li Shi turned to face the students, scooped up the hem of his shirt and tied it around his waist, spread his legs widely, raised his head with his chest straight, hugged his chest with both hands, and his posture was very high-spirited.

"People, standing up to the heavens and the earth, this is people! Remember, it's people who stand upright! ”

Forty heads are constantly moving, like a spring breeze stirring grass, too simple and too vivid, this word, they will be there immediately. And the pun in Li Xian's words, they naturally can't understand it, but what Li Xi wants is to indoctrinate first, and then understand, and it is not good to say, this is called ...... Psychological suggestion.

Seeing such a vivid reaction from the students, Fan Jin also pondered. There are few students in a serious private school, the curriculum is loose, and Mr. can teach it by hand, so there is no place for this blackboard chalk. But now the student on the 40th has to learn 300,000 in half a year, and the one-on-one teaching method is not available, and there must be a "public tutorial" to show the teaching explanation to everyone, and the blackboard and chalk are used here.

In this era, whether it is Huaxia or foreigners, education lacks such a link, either falling in the teacher's mouth, or falling on the book, there is no platform to show the teacher's explanation, textbooks and questions and answers to all students, teaching efficiency is low, and the truth is the same as the difference between manual carving and mechanical mass manufacturing.

Foreigners were similar in this regard, and it was not until more than a hundred years later, when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, that chalkboard chalk appeared in university classrooms. So don't look at the simplicity of this blackboard chalk, Li Xi used it in Mengxue, but it was a subversive change.

At this moment, Li Shi showed that Fan Jin's surname was stupid, which did not mean that he had no brains, and he saw the benefits of the blackboard and chalk at once. Thinking that relying on such a teaching method, the teaching content and explanation can be integrated and passed on to all students at the same time, Fan Jin's heart is also moved, and it seems that it is not a fantasy to learn the three-character scripture in two months.

But thinking that chalk writing would ruin his calligraphy, Fan Jin frowned, and the resistance in his heart was still tightly blocked in his chest.

[1: There are too many versions of the "Three Character Classic", and the number of words is also much worse, and the main difference is in the historical part. The well-known "Three Character Classic" is the Republic of China version, and the Shunzhi version of the "Three Character Classic" in the early Qing Dynasty is this number of words. 】

[2: Wang Shizhen's "Shen Yun Theory" of writing poems is still influencing China, and older readers should know hazy poetry, which also follows his theoretical foundation. A few more words here, about his name, there is also a public case. More than ten years after his death, Yongzheng came to power and changed his name to "Wang Shizheng", after Qianlong came to power, he said that this name did not match Wang Shizhen's brother, and changed it to "Wang Shizhen", so later generations only knew Wang Shizhen for a long time, and did not know Wang Shizhen. Although there have been avoidance in all dynasties, it is really rare to engage in "dead secrets" like the Tartar Emperor. 】

[3: In the Qing Dynasty, factories, commercial houses, and even green camps all had the profession of literacy, and there were also stalls on the street. He is doing things to help others read and write, read and write letters, and other things related to words, and he is not a serious reader. 】