Li Xiu wanted to start with him and promote large-scale basic education, so he built a free school, hoping to send the children of the tenant families around him to school, but he didn't expect that there were only a few children who came to school, and most of the children from the tenant families did not come, but almost all the children from Wuzhizhuang came.

Faced with this situation, Li Xiu was also very helpless. After asking Boss Liu, he also hoped that the other party could give him an idea. However, Li Xiu was also in a hurry to seek medical treatment. Boss Liu was just a farmer who was not as good as his daughter Su Niang, so he naturally couldn't give any good advice, which disappointed Li Xiu.

After seeing off Boss Liu, some people came to sign up for 66 in the afternoon, but until the registration was over, the total number of people could barely exceed 400. In fact, in fact, 400 freshmen are already a very large number for a school. After all, this is only the first year, and new students will come in every year from now on.

However, the four hundred students are of different ages. The oldest is already fifteen or sixteen years old, and the youngest is only five years old. In this age range, the number of children around is estimated to be at least several thousand. Compared with this huge number of children, four hundred people are really not a large number.

Although the 400 people did not meet Li Xiu's expectations, they could only accept so many people first. After all, if they didn't come, he could not force others to send their children. At that time, he discussed with Tianchao and organized the more than 400 people into eight classes, with each class having fifty people.

If you are familiar with the general, a teacher will definitely not be able to teach so many students, because the teaching in private schools is very different from that in later schools. Generally, each student’s learning progress is different. This also requires the teacher to teach students according to their aptitude and teach different contents for each student. In fact, Li Xiu also used this method when teaching children at home.

This targeted teaching method belongs to elite education. Teachers teach students one-on-one, so that students can learn the corresponding content more deeply. Even if the learning progress cannot keep up, teachers can slow down their teaching and even formulate special methods to help them learn.

However, this kind of one-on-one education also has a big disadvantage, that is, the teacher's energy is limited, and a person can teach at most twenty or thirty students. If a teacher uses this method to teach fifty students, he will probably have to vomit blood if he is tired.

Compared to later, teaching in later schools became much easier. All the students in a class were at the same pace. The teacher would talk about one content in class, saving the teacher a lot of energy. Of course, this also required Li Xiu to create blackboards and chalk. These two things did not have much technical content. In fact, Li Xiu had already used blackboards and chalk when teaching at home, and now he only needed to create more.

Of course, this unified teaching also has great disadvantages. Mr. said above that it is best for positive students to understand. If he doesn't understand, Mr. can only focus on tutoring a few students. There will always be some poor students who cannot keep up with the learning progress. This is also impossible. After all, there are advantages and disadvantages. But overall, this unified teaching is more suitable for large-scale education, which is a bit like the difference between assembly line homework and handicraft workshops in factories.

Tian Chou is a very thoughtful person. At first he disagreed with Li Xiu's way of breaking the secular education, because he believed that this would be unfair to some students, especially those who are extremely excellent and poor, which will be greatly affected in this unified education.

However, in the end, Li Xiu convinced him. After all, in comparison, those extremely excellent and extremely poor students are a minority, and most of them belong to the middle level. Moreover, the Xinzhu Primary School he built is just to help the children around him. Simply put, it is enough to let the students understand the text and verbal. Of course, if there are particularly excellent students, the imperial court can focus on training in the future, and even send them to the imperial examination.

After the Yuan Dynasty, Xinzhu Primary School officially started classes. Students who had previously signed up also came to the school wearing new clothes for the New Year with their parents. The school also held a opening ceremony. In addition to the teachers and students in the school, Li Xiu and Yang Dui also attended, and there were also some officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, and there were no other outsiders.

"Mr. Prince Concubine, you have built such a big school. After these children are finished, can our Ministry of Agriculture choose some minor officials from these children?" After attending the opening ceremony, Yang Dui and Li Xiu walked and chatted in the school.

"Of course, these children will probably not do some rough work like their parents, such as their parents, such as clerks, accountants, merchants, etc. These are the things that children will do in the future. I don't ask them to be able to have a high school Jinshi like Shangguan Yi, but I just hope that they can broaden their horizons through learning, which is a good thing for both themselves and our Tang Dynasty!" Li Xiu said with a smile at this time.

The founding of the Tang Dynasty was still short, and there were not many officials. However, to manage such a large empire, these small numbers of officials were naturally not enough. So a large number of officials appeared. For example, more than 80% of the Ministry of Agriculture were minor officials, and these minor officials were generally held by countless scholars who participated in the imperial examination or failed. After the officials above made a decision, these minor officials needed to truly implement these things.

"That's great. The officials of our Ministry of Agriculture are no better than others. They need to be proficient in a lot of agricultural knowledge. If scholars recruited from the outside world want to become qualified officials, it will take at least a few years of training. Moreover, scholars are arrogant. Many people feel that they are not valued for a while, so they simply quit. In contrast, students in this school can be trained from an early age. Usually, I can also send some people to teach students some agricultural knowledge. When they become adults, they can come to the Ministry of Agriculture to do things as long as they are willing." Yang Dui said happily.

"The school mainly teaches Chinese and math. There is no need to say about math. It is necessary to do anything. Chinese is mainly about reading and judging words. In the future, you can also learn some Confucianism such as the Analects of Confucius. In addition, you may also teach miscellaneous studies such as astronomy and geography, and the things taught by the Ministry of Agriculture can also be classified into these miscellaneous studies." Li Xiu smiled again at this time.
Chapter completed!