Since ancient times, education had always attached great importance to teaching students according to their aptitude. In addition to the most basic basic education, different education should be carried out according to each person's different situation. Only in this way could the greatest educational effect be achieved.
For example, if some people liked The Analects of Confucius, they would focus on learning The Analects of Confucius. If some people liked college, they would learn college. If some people liked poetry, they would learn poetry. If some people liked martial arts, they would learn martial arts.
Of course, this was from a general perspective. However, in a school, there were only a few teachers, and their abilities were very limited. It was impossible for them to have so much educational ability. Therefore, they could only carry out education within their own ability and try to take care of the students' actual situation as much as possible.
After Ang Lee's explanation and persuasion, most of the doctorate teaching assistants and students understood Ang Lee's painstaking efforts. They did not have much objection to carrying out comprehensive universal education.
After all, the things they worried about had been resolved one by one by Ang Lee. It seemed that there was not much meaning to object.
The Imperial Chancellor and several others were worried that the people were not willing to spend money to study, so it was meaningless to carry out a large-scale education. However, Ang Lee proposed that the imperial court should pay for it, which solved this problem. They were again worried that the national treasury would be under too much pressure. Ang Lee proposed the Merit Monument and was ready to borrow the financial resources of businessmen to solve this problem, which solved their worries again.
As for their worry that too many scholars would impact the rights of the aristocrats, Ang Lee told everyone that the purpose of promoting education was to improve the overall quality of the people of the Tang dynasty, not to let all the scholars take the imperial examinations. It was to change the cognition of a large number of people through education. In addition, Ang Lee also said that with the prosperity of the Tang dynasty, private schools had been opened everywhere. 30% of the children in the capital had already gone to school. If this development continued, it would basically be popularized in a few decades. The pressure of the imperial examination had greatly increased. Whether to carry out a comprehensive popularization or not seemed to be of little significance. From the moment the imperial examination came into being, the rights of the aristocrats had been damaged. It was almost impossible for them to monopolize the officialdom.
In addition, Li An also proposed for the first time that through ideological education, most of the children would be able to do their jobs and not recklessly take the imperial examination. As long as a certain ideological education was passed, many people would be able to give up the imperial examination. In this way, it would help the rich and powerful a lot. If fewer people were willing to take the imperial examination, the pressure on the rich and powerful would be reduced. The most important thing was to improve the quality of the common people through education and make them more obedient. This was also a good thing for the rich and powerful. If there was no education, many poor people who did not live well were likely to set their eyes on the rich and powerful and have ideas about the rich and powerful. This was the so-called problem of the lack of education leading to violations of the law and discipline.
Education might not be able to eliminate this problem, but it was not a problem of education at all. It was a problem of not having a good education. Or it could be that the education was good, but because they were exposed to other ideas, all the previous efforts were wasted. In other words, they were exposed to bad ideas and received bad education.
Those who could be influenced to become bad were all people who were not educated thoroughly. As long as they were educated thoroughly, they would not be affected by any bad ideas. Their willpower was very strong and would not change even until death. These people who were educated thoroughly would not have resentment because of their unsatisfactory life, nor would they lose themselves because of the huge temptation in front of them. They would not choose to hurt others for their own benefit.
If everyone could be educated thoroughly, then this world would not be so chaotic. Therefore, the importance of education was imaginable. Only through education, most people would abide by the rules set by the imperial court and become good people. Only then could this society be more warm and stable.
Looking at the more approving eyes of the people, Ang Lee was quite happy. His painstaking advice was not in vain. Through his patient and careful persuasion, these doctoral assistants and aristocratic students finally approved of Ang Lee's point of view.
Originally, they were not fiercely opposed to it. It was just that they were used to being high and mighty and looked down on the poor. When they heard that all the low-quality bumpkins in the world would go to school and become scholars like them, they would feel very unhappy in their hearts. They felt that they were a cut above others and really disdained to mix with the low-quality poor people. They felt that it would lower their status. As for the competition from the poor, many people disdained it.
After all, the poor had no social background. Even if they were lucky enough to pass the imperial examination and become a scholar, it would be difficult for them to climb to a relatively high position. Only the children of the rich and powerful like them could have a better future. Even if they did not achieve anything and could not pass the imperial examination and become a scholar, they could still obtain a very high position. The children of officials of different ranks could directly enter the palace as guards. These guards were all high-ranking guards with ranks. The lowest was rank eight, and the slightly better ones were rank six or seven, which were equivalent to county officials. This official position was already very high, and from the moment they were born, they already had such a position. Ordinary poor people could not compare with them, and they did not even dare to think about it.
How a person's life was, many times, could not be changed by one's own efforts. A lot of wealth came from the mother's womb. One's birth determined what kind of status one could obtain in the future. Of course, efforts may also make one change, but the difficulty was very high. Absolutely most people could not change anything through their own efforts. Only the best among them could change something, and those people were rarer than pandas.
Ang Lee naturally understood this very well. Therefore, the goal of popularizing education was to improve the overall quality of ordinary people, and not to let them go all out to take the imperial examination. This would harm them. So many people learned knowledge. It seemed that they would not be able to use it in the future, but in fact, it was definitely useful. At least, they would not be led by the nose.
For example, the unlucky butcher mentioned by Ang Lee was deceived by a poor scholar with ulterior motives. As a result, not only did he beat up the scholar who wrote, but he also caused harm to others. He was also tied up and displayed on the street. The compensation was not the main thing, but the most important thing was that he lost face. He would not be able to work in the butcher's shop in the future.
This was the price of impulsiveness, and at the same time, the price of ignorance. If the butcher wrote, he would never have made such a mistake. Moreover, if everyone could read, no poor scholar would dare to deceive the butcher, unless he was itching for a beating.
In addition, educating the people could also let them understand a lot of life principles. Thus, they would not be so easily incited by people with ulterior motives, and it would not be easy to form large-scale uprisings and rebellions.
After all, educated people were very clear that since ancient times, ordinary people were just tools to change dynasties. Whether in the new or old dynasties, they were the lowest level of society and were the targets of bullying. In the process of changing dynasties, ordinary people were just the vanguard of the charge. They used their own lives to create a new dynasty, and their descendants could get very little benefits, almost negligible. Moreover, they were still the targets of bullying.
Therefore, this was a very sad story. Because ordinary people were not educated, they were always in the position of being fooled. A false call from others could make them rush forward without caring about their own lives. But the facts proved that many of them were just scams.
The first real peasant uprising in historical records was the Daze Village uprising led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. When they incited their subordinates to revolt, they used a lot of deceptive means. For example, first, they had people write the three words "Chen Sheng Wang" on white silk, and then, they stuffed it into the belly of a fish caught with a net. When the soldiers came back to cook the fish, they found these silk books, so they thought that Chen Sheng was sent by the heavens to save them. In addition, they also imitated the sound of a fox in the middle of the night, lit a bonfire in the ancient temple, and imitated the sound of a fox shouting, "Great Chu Xing, Chen Sheng Wang". This made the soldiers even more convinced that Chen Sheng was the king chosen by the heavens. Then, everyone followed Chen Sheng and rebelled, and took down a large part of the country in one fell swoop.
Although these soldiers did not rebel completely because of their ignorance, the fact that they were able to make up their minds to rebel at that time had a lot to do with the deceit of these Gods and Ghosts. Otherwise, even if they hated the Qin Dynasty in their hearts, they would not have the courage to make such a decision. In the end, Chen Sheng Wu Guang left his name in the annals of history. However, most of these soldiers who followed him to rebel were killed in the war. Very few people were lucky enough to survive. These people used their own lives to help Chen Sheng Wu Guang gain fame, while they themselves had nothing.
Of course, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's rebellion against the Qin Dynasty was righteous and worthy of affirmation. In many eras of history, there were many meaningless rebellions. They also used this method to confuse the common people. They made the common people their pawns. In order for them to realize their ideals, the majority of the common people were sacrificed. This was an extremely unconscionable act, and often caused huge losses to the Empire. The common people, because they had no knowledge and no culture, were easily incited by these people with ulterior motives. Thus, they became the tools and sacrifices of others to conquer the world.
Since ancient times, all smart people would not be misled by others, and would not walk on the road of no return. Smart people must know a lot of principles. They knew how to protect themselves and how to maximize their own benefits. At the very least, they would not do meaningless rebellions.
If the world was really in chaos, then it did not matter. If they rebelled, then so be it! However, during the stable periods of many dynasties, all kinds of rebellions occurred frequently. Any ambitious sect leader could set off a rather large rebellion and consume the country's manpower and material resources to quell the rebellion.
Most of these rebellions took advantage of the common people's ignorance. By drawing a big picture, they induced the common people to join the rebellion. Thus, they made the common people use their lives to serve their own interests.
The common people were easily misled. Only those with knowledge and brains would not be confused by these people's despicable methods. Only then could they maintain a clearer mind.
Of course, there was a limit to everything. An ignorant person was very scary, but similarly, a person who was too smart was also very scary. The common people were too ignorant and easily led by people with ulterior motives. Similarly, they were also easily controlled by the Imperial Court. If the common people were too smart, then they might not be convinced by the Imperial Court's rule. They would think that everyone was the same. If one person could be the Emperor, so could they. Why must they be loyal to the Emperor? For example, Chen Sheng said that the nobles and generals were all at peace. Would there be a republic in the future? Would the historical status quo of the Imperial Court change?
Since ancient times, the Emperor had advocated that he was bestowed by God and was sent by Heaven to govern the world. Therefore, all the common people had to obey the Emperor's governance and obey the Imperial Court's laws. They could not do anything that would harm the Imperial Court. This was also a kind of deception.
The Emperor was inherited from his ancestors, and the Emperor's ancestors more or less used to deceive the common people to win the country. Since the Emperor's ancestors could deceive the common people to win the country, why couldn't others?
Therefore, on the one hand, the Emperor had to rely on the ignorant idea of the bestowment of God to deceive the common people. At the same time, he had to constantly attack others who used the same ignorant method to mislead the common people. In other words, the Emperor could use the bestowment of God to deceive the common people, but no one else could. Otherwise, they would be the Emperor's enemy and had to be eliminated with all their strength.
There was a saying that only the magistrate could set the fire and not the common people could light the lamp. This was the truth. The Emperor was the only one who could use ignorant ideas to mislead the common people. No one else could. Only the Emperor's bestowment of God's bestowment of God was true. All other ideas were false and illegal.
In short, the Emperor was the power. Whatever he said was right. Even if he was unreasonable, it was reasonable. There was no reason to talk about it.
Ang Lee said a lot in one breath. His throat was about to smoke, but Ang Lee did not feel bitter at all. Ang Lee felt a sense of accomplishment to be able to convince these people. As long as these doctoral assistants and influential students agreed to a comprehensive education in the Tang dynasty, Ang Lee's hard work would not be in vain.
The reason and necessity of a comprehensive education had been clearly explained. The next thing to talk about was the specific details, because the details were the key factors that could really determine the success or failure. If the details were not done properly, it was very likely that all the previous efforts would be wasted.
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