Ang Lee was not a high-profile person. He usually did things as low-key as possible, but some things could not be low-key. They had to be handled in a high-profile manner. For example, in this Start-of-Term Ceremony, Ang Lee had to appear in person. Moreover, he had to make this Start-of-Term Ceremony very lively and influential.
After all, Ang Lee's purpose was to promote universal education in a comprehensive way. Therefore, Ang Lee had to make a good start and set a good example. In this way, he could attract more dignitaries and big businessmen to follow his footsteps and fund the establishment of public welfare schools to educate the children of the Tang dynasty and reduce the economic burden of the imperial court.
The number of people in the capital had soared to millions. There were hundreds of thousands of children of suitable age, but only about 100,000 children could enter schools to study. These children were distributed in thousands of private schools in the Tang dynasty. The bigger schools had hundreds of students, the smaller schools had only dozens or a dozen students, and there were even private schools with less than ten students. In short, although there were many private schools, the number of students they could accommodate was not very large.
Since the imperial court agreed to Ang Lee's universal education, they would naturally give Ang Lee a lot of support. The open space next to the school was smoothly allocated to the school, and it was completely free of charge.
In addition, the imperial court's pilot program of universal education had begun. The pilot program was naturally the populous capital. Because the number of children in universal education was large, and most of them were poor children who were relatively young, the principle of universal education was to enter schools in the neighborhood. The school was built near the residential area so that the poor children could go to school at home, which was more convenient.
This was almost equivalent to the school districts of the later generations. However, the school districts derived from the school districts of the later generations were very expensive. This would certainly not happen in the Tang dynasty, because these universal education schools taught some relatively simple things. Compared to the private schools of the aristocrats, there was no such thing as school districts. Children in Luoyang could come to school, so it was not the same thing at all.
In the universal education plan proposed by Ang Lee, there were basic education and higher professional education. However, the imperial court was currently only experimenting with basic education. The professional school was still under discussion. After all, the step could not be too big. It had to be done step by step.
Considering that there were too many poor children in the capital who had no school to go to. There were more than 200,000 children under the age of 11. In this way, if the scale of the universal education school was too small, it would need to build a large number of schools, which was obviously not suitable. Therefore, after some research, the imperial court finally determined that the scale of the universal education school could not be less than 300 children. In more densely populated areas, schools could even be built to accommodate thousands of people at the same time...
For this reason, the imperial court allocated hundreds of pieces of land around the capital according to the actual situation of the slums. These pieces of land were specially used to build schools. They announced it as soon as possible to call on the rich to bear all the expenses of these schools, give them the naming rights and various honorary benefits. If no one accepted it within the stipulated time limit, then the imperial court could only be responsible for the construction and maintenance. The required expenses would be directly paid from the national treasury.
Of course, these hundreds of pieces of land were only the minimum standard for building schools. In reality, it might not be enough. For this reason, if someone bought a piece of land at their own expense and wanted to build a basic education school, it was also possible. As long as it was not too close to other schools, or if there were too many poor children in this area and the nearby schools could not accommodate them, it could also be approved.
For example, the house that Ang Lee bought was not within the imperial court's planning. It was bought by Ang Lee at his own expense, and the empty land next to it happened to be useless. In view of Ang Lee's goal and personal status, the imperial court naturally would not go against Ang Lee's face. They smoothly allocated this useless piece of land to the school that Ang Lee had bought. Moreover, it was completely free of charge. As long as the school did not change its use, this piece of land would never be taken back.
Because it was Ang Lee who proposed comprehensive universal education, the school that Ang Lee was in charge of was designated as School No. 1 by the imperial court and was recorded in the records. Although this school was almost entirely under the charge of Ang Lee and the imperial court would not provide any funds, materials, or personnel, the official in charge of education would come to investigate every year to show the imperial court's kindness. At the same time, it also showed the imperial court's concern for these schools. They also monitored what these schools taught and whether they taught something that should not be taught.
If a school taught some nonsense that was unfavorable to the imperial court or very bad values, not only would it not be able to educate people, but it would also endanger the entire Tang Empire. This was also the thing that the imperial court was most afraid of.
Childhood was the stage in one's life when one's ability to imitate was the strongest. It was also the stage in which one's worldview was formed. This period was very critical. If good habits were formed during this period, one would definitely benefit for life. If bad habits were formed during this period, one's whole life would be ruined. It was the same for the imperial court. If one formed a strong sense of patriotism during childhood, even if one was dissatisfied when he grew up, at least he would not be a traitor, or it would be difficult for him to betray his country. However, if one was educated against his country during childhood, he would become a traitor who worshipped foreign things when he grew up. He would even incite everywhere to destroy his own country.
In a certain place in Huaxia in the future, as it had been colonized for too long, the ordinary people had received colonial education. As such, they naturally had no feelings for their motherland. Moreover, not only did they not have any feelings, but they also hated their own identity very much. They regretted that they could not join a colonial country and even shouted loudly that they would rather be a fly on the feces of a colonial master's pet dog than be a master of their motherland. From this, one could see how terrifying their thoughts of being colonized were.
What kind of education was this? It could actually make a living person willingly be a fly on the poop of a pet dog. This kind of behavior that even disregarded one's dignity for the sake of colonizing their master was really hard to understand. It also reflected the success and horror of colonial brainwashing education.
In fact, any kind of education in the world was brainwashing education. It was just that some brainwashing education was in a good direction, while some was in a bad direction. The final result was naturally different. However, as far as the imperial court of a country was concerned, it naturally had to try its best to say good things about itself and appropriately belittle its opponents, so that the people would have a better sense of identity with their country.
The history of any empire was always about its own glory and justice, and always belittling the surrounding countries. It gave the people of this empire the impression that only their own empire was good, and all the surrounding empires were all hooligans, vicious, ungrateful villains, and enemies of the empire.
If you changed to another empire, you would find the same situation. This country suddenly became the greatest, and the surrounding empires were all ungrateful hooligans.
In short, any empire had to shape itself into a tall and mighty image, so that its people would love their motherland more and make it easier for them to rule.
In carrying out universal education, in addition to teaching children to read and write, it was very important to carry out patriotism education, so that the ordinary people would have a sense of identity with the empire. Regarding this, the imperial court must certainly control it. From time to time, it must go to each school to check and ask the children who were studying whether they were loyal to the Tang dynasty.
Whether the imperial court funded it in person or entrusted it to others, these elementary education schools had to be supervised by the education department of the imperial court. No school was an exception. In addition, in order to facilitate management, the schools would be uniformly numbered according to the city where the school was located. The school built by Ang Lee was the first universal education school in the capital, so the number was naturally No. 1. The second school was naturally No. 2. This was not the name of the school, but the number recorded by the imperial court for the convenience of management. It was a necessary means for efficient management.
Because of sufficient funds and good publicity, the first universal education school built by Ang Lee was not only very successful in recruiting teaching staff, but also had no pressure on the students. Including a few people who were admitted as exceptions, the number of teaching staff had exceeded 60. In addition, there were some cleaning and canteen staff, as well as various types of logistics staff who maintained the safety of the school. The total number of teaching staff was close to 100.
The school originally planned to enroll 1,000 children, but because of the enthusiasm of the students who signed up, more than 1,500 children finally entered the school, which was a large scale.
With such a large number of students, just eating lunch every day was not a small amount. Fortunately, Ang Lee was not short of money, so he could afford it no matter how many children there were. However, the teaching rooms seemed to be a little tight.
When this house was bought, it was a two-story wooden house. There were more than 30 rooms in total, but each room was not big enough. According to the number of 1,500 students, each room needed to accommodate 50 children. Obviously, these rooms could not accommodate so many people. It was a little stressful to accommodate 30 people.
But since the children had come, even if the rooms could not accommodate them, he could not drive the children away. He had to let their mothers study hard in the school.
Since the teaching space was not enough, it was temporarily built. Anyway, there was a large open space in the backyard. In addition, there was a large space next to it.
According to Ang Lee's plan, because the area of the allocated land was large, it could be used as a playground, and the open space in the back was relatively small. It could be used to build a high-rise teaching building to meet the requirements of the students to study in large classrooms.
This high-rise teaching building would abandon the wooden construction and use the newly invented cement material, which would make the house stronger.
In terms of the number of floors, Ang Lee felt that three or four floors would be enough. The higher the floor, the greater the risk. The lower floor was slightly safer. According to the area of the open space in the backyard, it could be built to the scale of ten large classrooms on a single floor. From a bird's eye view, it was a concave shape. There were two classrooms on the east and west sides, and a row of six classrooms on the north side. The two staircases were at the corner of the junction. Because there was still space at the corner, there were two more toilets on each floor to make it convenient for the children to go to the toilet nearby.
According to the scale of ten large classrooms on a single floor, there were thirty on three floors. Each of these large classrooms was enough to accommodate more than fifty children. Thirty large classrooms could accommodate all fifteen hundred children.
Therefore, Ang Lee's decision was very simple. He immediately started to build classrooms in the backyard. As for the newly recruited children, half of them would study in the wooden houses, and the other half would temporarily make do with the large playground. Anyway, Ang Lee had plenty of tents. He just needed to put up a few more tents. These tents were carefully remodeled by Ang Lee. He added more ventilation windows to make the interior of the tents brighter. In addition, the top of the tents was covered with a layer of rainproof cloth to ensure that the tents would not leak when it rained.
Because the establishment of the school was too rushed, it could only be done so at present. The conditions were indeed difficult. If the houses were completely built, then the time would be delayed. Therefore, it was more important to start teaching as soon as possible.
The tents built occupied a small area of the playground. The remaining space was still very large. Therefore, there was no need to worry about the existence of the tents blocking the space for the children to move. The space for the children to move was still very large.
The Start-of-Term Ceremony was held in this very large space. After all, this was the most spacious place and the only place that could accommodate enough people to watch the ceremony.
After the construction of the classrooms was completed, a track could be built here. A place for children to run and exercise.
Because it was the first day of school and there was a Start-of-Term Ceremony, there were many people. Almost every child who entered the school was followed by at least one parent. There were more than five or six people. In addition, there were many people who came purely to watch the fun. Together with some officials from the imperial court who came to watch the ceremony, the number of people present exceeded ten thousand. The scene was very lively.
Because there were too many people, most people could only stand at a relatively far position. They couldn't even see what the people on the rostrum looked like.
A whole set of procedures had been arranged. Ang Lee and the others spoke one by one. Once again, they reiterated the importance of universal education and called on everyone to support this good policy that was beneficial to the country and the people.
Then, the officials from the Education Office said a few words. Finally, the newly recruited teaching staff spoke one by one, expressing their lofty ideals of education and education.
The Start-of-Term Ceremony started early in the morning and lasted until noon. Before the ceremony ended, all the people who attended the ceremony smelled a strong aroma of meat.
That's right, the canteen of the Sound Transmission Academy was cooking delicacies, and this aroma should be the smell of Red Braised Meat. As he had already expected that there would be tens of thousands of people coming, Li An had also called over his own kitchen and prepared a large amount of delicious food.
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