I want to be emperor

Chapter 554 Songhua Academy
If a country wants to promote industrialization, it needs more than just a steam engine on the surface.

In other words, the steam engine is actually just a product of various basic sciences that meet the standards. After all, if you want to build a practical steam engine, you must have the corresponding materials and processing technology.

And this, again, goes back to basic science.

As for the development of basic science, it is not enough for Luo Zhixue to recruit a group of students and teach them for a period of time.

Not to mention that Luo Zhixue has a lot of military and political affairs to deal with daily, and he doesn't have so much time to teach in person. Even if he really teaches, it is difficult to directly achieve the desired effect.

The development of many basic sciences requires many scientific researchers to conduct various researches and conduct many experiments to slowly explore and develop.

What Luo Zhixue has to do is to provide them with some guidance, and then create a better research environment.

The second is to train enough scientific researchers.

This is why Luo Zhixue attaches so much importance to the development of education.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to reform the traditional education system that has lasted for thousands of years, forcibly promoted the new education throughout the year, and directly raised the importance of mathematics, physics and chemistry to a level that is more important than the Four Books and Five Classics. Reforms were carried out at the imperial examination level, and the content of new subjects was directly listed as the content of the examination.

Some people in later generations said this: If you want the national football team to win the World Cup, it is actually very simple. You don’t need to do other messy things, you just need to include football in the college entrance examination...

In this way, hundreds of millions of parents will let their children play with footballs while they are breastfeeding... When they are a little older, they will go to various football training schools, and countless football training institutions will appear in society. People began to delve into football related.

In the end, there will be hundreds of millions of teenagers who have been trained in professional football since they were young...It will be trivial to win the World Cup at that time.

However, to say the least, football will not be included in the college entrance examination... After all, this is just a competitive entertainment game.

However, mathematics, physics and chemistry are subjects that can promote the development of science and technology, promote social development, and enhance the country's hard power, so they are included in the college entrance examination.

But in the Great Chu Empire, the influence of the joint examination of the four schools is not so great, so Luo Zhixue made a more powerful move, directly included in the imperial examination...

If you want to be an official, learn mathematics, physics and chemistry for me first...

So, in just a few years, there has been a wave of learning mathematics, physics and chemistry in China, and it is an extremely positive atmosphere, the kind that is widely praised by many parents and students...

There is no need for official guidance. A large number of private schools and academies have bought a lot of books on new subjects as teaching materials. Various teaching materials compiled and published by the Textbook Department of the Ministry of Rites and Education, such as elementary mathematics, elementary physics, elementary chemistry, and geometry. became a best-selling book.

And various annotated versions, detailed explanations of real questions and other teaching aids for new subjects have also become the best-selling books in many private printing factories and bookstores.

Miss Scholar's cheating books didn't sell well as supplementary books.

As for the handwritten copies of various teaching aids written by the students themselves, there are countless of them.

Songhua Academy is an academy that actively participates in new disciplines in this big wave.

The academy has a history of more than 100 years. It is located in a secluded place on the outskirts of Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture. Although the school has been in operation for a long time, it has been tepid before. For a long time, only some students from Songjiang Prefecture would come to study .

Ever since the Great Chu Empire controlled Jiangnan and introduced new imperial examinations, Songhua Academy actively embraced new disciplines. It was the first among the many academies around Jiangnan to offer new disciplines.

Since its establishment, its school performance has been considered good, and it has contributed to the imperial officialdom, with dozens of candidates, four Jinshi, and six Guozijian students.

As for the students who passed the hospital examination, there were more.

Fang Beitong is a student of Songhua Academy, but it is different from the seniors in other academies who rushed to directly take the imperial examination to become an official, or to apply for the Imperial College. Fang Beitong chose to join the army and apply for the exam. Army Academy.

And passed the entrance examination smoothly, thus becoming the first student in the Army Military Academy in Songhua Academy.

The students of this academy have achieved such good grades, so the dean of the academy will not turn a blind eye to it. Fang Beitong received an invitation from Songhua Academy within two days after returning to his hometown, inviting him to give lectures at Songhua Academy for several months. Pass on learning and exam experience to students.

Fang Beitong did not refuse. After all, Songhua Academy was the place where he studied for six years. He studied in Songhua Academy in the pre-Ming Dynasty. And now I'm in the Army Academy.

Fang Beitong is still grateful for the alma mater that cultivated him.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Songhua Academy is not far from his home. If he goes to give lectures, it is also close to his home.

At the same time, it is said to be lectures, but the academy will not arrange too many courses for him, and he will still have a lot of time to continue studying, learning some cultural courses in the Army Military Academy in advance.

In the end... I get paid for teaching for several months, and it's not a lot.

Fang Beitong is not a child of a big family, the Fang family does not have to worry about food and drink, but it is not related to the rich and the rich, and the remuneration offered by the academy is not a small amount, so Fang Beitong did not hesitate, and directly agreed to give lectures up.

According to his plan, he will give lectures in Songhua Academy for about three months, and then leave for Jinling City to report in December at the end of the year, waiting for the official start of school in the first month.

Fang Beitong was invited to come here, and Songhua Academy was overjoyed.

In the past, Songhua Academy often invited students who were admitted to the Imperial Academy or Juren to give lectures at the school, but none of them were admitted to the military academy...

And Fang Beitong was the first.

Therefore, there is still a lot of value for Fang Beitong to give lectures, especially Fang Beitong belongs to the type of both arts and sciences. His articles are well written and his grades in science and engineering are also very good, which can effectively improve the quality of the academy.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, they can take the opportunity to recruit another batch of students this autumn and winter, and then let the local gentry and the parents of those students pay a sum of money to build more and better school buildings, and invite teachers who understand Western learning to teach.

As long as the teachers and hardware facilities are in place, the qualifications for running a high school are almost enough.

Since the Ministry of Ethics and Education announced the relevant plans for educational reform through the Da Chu Di Bao, the government-run schools and the like have nothing to do with their Songhua Academy, but the related content of private schools has a great deal to do with them.

The dean of Songhua Academy is also quite ambitious. He not only wants to get the qualifications for running a junior high school, but also wants to get the qualifications for running a high school.

As long as they obtain the qualifications for running a high school, students who graduate from their high school can directly take the entrance examination, and apply for the two major military academies or the Imperial Academy, the Royal Institute of Technology, and several colleges and universities that are under preparation.

And you can directly participate in the provincial examinations.

There is no need to be the same as in the past, you have to go to a student to be qualified to report, and then you have to pass the preliminary examination of the college examination to directly participate in the provincial examination, which is very troublesome.

It's just that it's not easy to obtain the qualifications for running a private high school. In addition to the relatively high requirements for hardware facilities, it also requires sufficient teaching staff.

Especially the faculty!
The hardware is nothing more than school buildings and the like. If this kind of thing is not extravagant and wasteful, the construction cost does not need too much money, not to mention that Songhua Academy is not a small family. With the donations from the gentry, I dare not say that the money is not bad, but it is easy to build a school building or something.

But teachers are not easy to deal with!
There are not many people who know mathematics, physics and chemistry these days, and they are all in high demand. Grabbing people requires not only contacts, but also good treatment.

In the earliest days, there were not many people who knew mathematics, physics and chemistry in the entire Great Chu Empire.

The follow-up is the science and engineering talents trained by the four major official colleges. Needless to say, most of the two military academies have entered the military.

Those trained by the Royal Institute of Technology either stayed at the school to teach, or went to work in major enterprises under the Ministry of Industry. Well, they were all officials because of their status.

Those trained by the Guozijian Academy also entered the officialdom, and were arranged to serve in various departments according to their directors.

In other words, the talents cultivated by the four major colleges, regardless of whether they are science or engineering or pure arts, basically go to the government, and few of them flow into the society.

And in this process, a group of self-study, mathematics, physics and chemistry talents trained by folk academies have actually emerged... It's just that the level of these talents is relatively low, and many of them belong to the level of following the scriptures.

However, even so, it is still very popular, and all major academies and government-run middle schools are actively inviting them.

The existing teaching staff in Songhua Academy is not bad, but it is enough to apply for the qualifications for junior high schools, and it is still a little short of senior high schools.

But now the price of new talents is getting higher and higher every day...

Government-run middle schools are okay, they can directly give official status, as long as they enter the job, they will have a grade. From then on, they will eat imperial food, and even have the opportunity to pick out the level of government-run schools and directly enter the etiquette department/department of the local yamen.

This kind of treatment cannot be given by private academies, so if they want high-quality talents, they can only spend money!
Since money is going to be spent, it is natural to raise tuition fees and let the gentry sponsor one or two.

And if you want parents to pay for it, and if you want to get sponsorship from famous local gentry, the school performance must not be poor.

And Fang Beitong is a very useful signboard...

Songhua Academy invites those parents who want their children to come to visit, and when they invite those rich gentry to visit, they will point to Fang Bei, who looks like a successful student, who is teaching the students: "This is our academy this year. Students of the Army Military Academy, tsk tsk, that’s the Army Military Academy, and the exam is even harder than Jinshi!"

"He will retire midway in the future. According to our current rules, follow-up arrangements are excellent, and it is much smoother than taking the imperial examination route!"

"If he is lucky, he can survive all the way in the future and become the first general or even noble in our Songjiang Mansion, it is possible!"

After visiting the play signboard, the dean will bring the guests to the reception room, and all kinds of rhetoric will be sponsored...

In less than a month, Songhua Academy raised more than 1 taels of sponsorship fees... In addition, more than 200 students enrolled in the school, earning another sum from tuition fees.

With the money, Songhua Academy began to contact some teachers who had been booked in advance, all kinds of poaching targets...

This made many people in other academies grit their teeth. Nima, this is too much money, they can't afford it!

It's just that compared with other private academies spending money, the recruitment of teachers for the first government-run high school in Jiangnan Province is much smoother.

The elites of the four major colleges and universities can't get a few, but relying on the official status, there are so many talents in the society that they can choose from.

However, these mathematics, physics and chemistry talents in the society are far from satisfying Jiangnan High School. They want real experience, elites from the four major colleges!

(End of this chapter)