After eating the steamed buns, many of the onlookers outside the school began to disperse. However, they did not go back. Instead, they ran to the nearby river.
Because the steamed buns were dry, people would definitely be thirsty after eating them. Due to lack of preparation, the school did not prepare any soup for them.
These people were also in good health. They could actually adapt to eating steamed buns and drinking water from the river. Since they dared to drink it, it was enough to show that they usually did it.
In fact, such a situation would occur in any poor place. Poverty would allow people to adapt to nature better and train their physique so that they would not get sick even if they drank water from the river. If a person had never drunk water before, they would definitely have diarrhea after drinking water from the river.
"We should actually prepare some soup for them."
Li An said in a low voice.
Soup was much cheaper than steamed buns. One only needed to put some vegetable leaves in boiling water. However, the difficult part was the container for the soup. There were thousands of people outside the school. If the soup bowls were taken out, there was no guarantee that many of them would not be recovered. Steamed buns did not need a container. They could be directly distributed to the onlookers outside.
"Assistant Minister Li, these are just untouchables. It is enough for them to have water to drink. We have already done our best by rewarding each of them with a steamed bun."
His subordinate looked disdainfully at the crowd drinking water by the river. His eyes were full of contempt.
Ang Lee thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. Anyway, these people like to drink water. Tomorrow is the day of school. In the afternoon, why don't we distribute the books to these children and let them take them back to study first?"
"Assistant Minister Li, these children don't know anything. If we give them the books directly, I'm afraid that they will destroy the books. It's better to distribute the books to them during class! It's also good to emphasize the warning not to destroy the books again. "
A teacher was a little worried and said.
"Well, it's fine to distribute the books tomorrow. What should we do this afternoon? Hold a welcoming meeting on the field. "
Ang Lee said.
"Yes, Assistant Minister Li."
The teacher in charge said.
In the afternoon, Xuan and his family, who had eaten their fill, stood on the field and began the freshmen welcoming ceremony.
There were benches in the school, in the cafeteria, and in the classroom. However, the total number of benches was less than seven hundred, and there were more than a thousand people who entered the school. The number was not enough. Moreover, learning was devout, so it did not matter much if they stood.
In addition, Ang Lee's freshmen welcoming ceremony wouldn't be as long and tedious as the ones in the future. There wouldn't be endless nonsense, and it would be shorter. It wouldn't be tiring to stand. Moreover, there were more people outside the school, and they were all standing.
Ang Lee was also curious. What was so interesting about a school that it could make people stay outside for several hours?
As a leader, Ang Lee said a few words. However, the local people did not understand. After the teacher translated, they understood. Then, they looked at Ang Lee happily.
The school could teach children knowledge, and it didn't cost anything. They could also receive a free lunch every day. It was really a good deal.
However, Li An also made it clear that if there were some naughty children who did not study hard and were mischievous all day long, ruining the learning atmosphere of the school and affecting the learning of others, the school had the right to chase them out. Therefore, this lunch was not for free. If they wanted to eat, they had to study hard.
In addition, if some children could be excellent in both moral and academic performance, they would be rewarded. Every once in a while, the school would assess the children who were studying. Children with good results would receive various rewards provided by the school, such as learning equipment, clothes, food, and so on. The lowest reward would be a steamed bun.
Clear rewards and punishments were Ang Lee's consistent style. Only by using this method could these children be better encouraged to study hard and not neglect their studies.
For some children who were too naughty or too stupid, they must be mercilessly removed from the school so as not to affect the learning of more good children.
In the school that Li An had set up, he would never allow the existence of a school bully or a black sheep. This school was meant to nurture talents who would serve the Great Tang in the future. He couldn't allow the money to be spent only to fail to nurture talents. That would be a huge loss.
When they learned that the school not only did not charge money, but also provided free lunch and rewards in the future, many children were eager to have a try, especially the relatively poor children. They made up their minds to get their own rewards.
Some children's families, when they learned that the school had a reward and punishment system, clearly told their children that they must study hard. Otherwise, their butts would be smacked into eight pieces.
In only half an hour, Ang Lee's freshmen welcoming ceremony was over. Next was free time. The children and their families were allowed to walk around the school casually. If they were tired, they could go back. Just don't forget to go to school early tomorrow morning.
Some of the children and their families left one after another. The onlookers outside, hearing that there would be no free steamed bun to eat at night, also left one after another. However, there were still some people who were reluctant to leave. No one knew what they were reluctant to leave for.
The local children had never seen the sports equipment such as the horizontal bar and the parallel bars in the school. They did not know how to use them, but their interest drove them to run over to study it, even if they fell.
Li An personally ran over to demonstrate and teach the children who had not left how to use these equipment. However, most of these children were too young to use these relatively large sports equipment. They could not reach the horizontal bars at all. The parallel bars were used as horizontal bars by them. Only the older children knew how to use them properly and quickly learned how to use them.
Almost all the children who came to the school of the Tang dynasty had never been to school. The local illiteracy rate was still very considerable. A few educated locals were also taught the local language by their ancestors. They did not have much useful knowledge, so they could not be regarded as students.
From the perspective of plasticity, there was definitely a limit to the age of the students. If adults in their thirties or fifties were asked to go to school to learn culture, it would be an international joke. Children who were too young were not weaned and were not suitable to go to school. Only children above the age of six and below the age of fifteen were the best age for education.
This time, the enrollment of children was based on this age standard. Among them, the largest number were children around the age of ten. The older children went to help the adults with work, and the younger children were reluctant to go to school for fear of being bullied by the older children.
These children of different ages would definitely have different interests and hobbies. Their intelligence and learning abilities would definitely be different as well. If they were all placed together to compete, it would definitely be unfair. Moreover, there would be more cases of the big bullying the small, which would be detrimental to the long-term development of the school. Therefore, it was necessary to divide them into classes, and the principle of dividing them into classes was according to their age.
Ang Lee's initial decision was to divide the children between the ages of six and seven into one class, the children between the ages of eight and nine would be divided into another class, the children between the ages of ten and eleven would be divided into a class, the children between the ages of twelve and thirteen would be divided into a class, and the children between the ages of fourteen and fifteen would be divided into a class.
Of course, the reality certainly could not be completely based on this standard, because if it was strictly based on this age division, it would certainly cause the number of people in each class to be unequal. Some classes had a lot of people, and some classes had too few people. For example, the class of six and seven years old would certainly not have as many people as the class of eight and nine years old. The class of fourteen and fifteen years old would also have fewer people than the class of twelve and thirteen years old. In this way, it would certainly be unfair. The more people in the class, the greater the pressure of competition, and it would also appear more chaotic.
According to the standard of six classes of three hundred people, a class should have fifty people. In this way, if there were less than fifty people in the class of six and seven years old, the shorter children would be selected from the children between the ages of eight and nine years old. It would be best if they were eight years old, and so on to ensure that the number of people in each class was the same.
Of course, in this way, the children in the class of fourteen and fifteen years old would definitely be the strongest. If they were united, they would definitely be able to bully other children. This required the school to watch over and not allow conflicts between different classes. Otherwise, it would be severely punished.
Ang Lee was most worried about the older classes, because these children had already entered puberty. In this backward area, many children of fourteen and fifteen years old had already started their own families and careers. At this age where temperament was budding, these children might cause a big storm.
Before dark, all the children and their families had left. Tomorrow was a new day, and it was also the first day of school. Ang Lee would still come, and for many days after that, Ang Lee would come to take a look every day.
The first day of school was the busiest. There were many things to be done in the school. The teachers were busy dividing the classes, distributing the books to the children, and electing the class leaders. In this way, when the teachers were not around, the children could manage each other.
Dividing the classes, organizing the class equipment, and then distributing the books. This set of work took the whole morning. When the children just got the books, it was time for lunch.
Because it was the first day of school, there was still delicious braised pork in the canteen. It was accompanied by white rice, egg and vegetable soup, and several vegetarian dishes. In general, it was very nutritious, even more sumptuous than yesterday's dishes.
Some children cried as they ate because they had never eaten such delicious food before. They were tears of happiness.
In the afternoon, there was no formal teaching. Instead, he simply explained to the children what knowledge they could learn in the school, and what benefits they would get in the future after learning this knowledge.
In particular, he emphasized the benefits. There were immediate benefits and future benefits. The immediate benefits were the regular rewards given by the school. As long as they were good at their studies, they would get a certain reward. The future benefits were that they could be local officials after they succeeded in their studies and live a good life. Of course, they were officials of the Tang dynasty, but the highest official position certainly did not belong to them. The imperial court of the Tang dynasty would send domestic officials to the governor.
In the face of short-term and long-term benefits, these young children were indeed full of fighting spirit. However, they were still too young, so many of them were only enthusiastic for a short time. After this feeling passed, they soon began to be naughty.
Many children would suddenly leave their seats, run to the children they knew, hit them on the head, and then quickly run back.
The children who were hit would get up very angrily and chase to fight back. They would hit the children who attacked them for no reason several times to relieve the hatred in their hearts.
When the teacher saw this, he was naturally the most annoyed. He kept tapping the table with the paperweight with his fingers, telling the children not to mess up.
However, on the first day of school, the young children were inevitably very excited, and this kind of excitement was difficult to suppress. In their eyes, the teacher was just an old man, so they did not take him seriously.
And this kind of situation was also expected by Ang Lee. After all, he had been a student, so he knew the children's personalities very well.
"Just watch! Once the teacher is angry, he will beat them immediately. "
Ang Lee smiled and stood outside the school to watch the fun. The place where Ang Lee stood was a place where the teacher could not see.
"Give me your hands."
The teacher angrily walked into the middle of the children who were fighting and beat them up, causing the surrounding children to laugh.
"Don't laugh. Don't laugh. When the teacher is teaching, don't move casually. Listen carefully. If you don't obey, beat them."
The teacher was very angry and scolded the children.
"These children are disobedient. They are actually playing downstairs. Indeed, they should be beaten a few more times to make them remember."
The subordinate felt that these naughty children deserved to be beaten.
"If you don't work hard when you are young, you will only be sad when you are old. Everything is inferior, but only studying is good …"
The teacher scolded and recited inspirational words. He was quite disappointed with these naughty children.
"Assistant Minister Li, these naughty children will affect the hardworking people. If they are really disobedient, can you persuade them to leave?"
The subordinate felt that since the money had been spent, there must be an effect. If the children were disobedient, they should be persuaded to leave as soon as possible, so as not to affect the study of the other children.
Ang Lee said with a smile, "The teacher only knows how to educate the children with great principles, but he doesn't know that there is a better strategy. The effect must be more useful than these principles."
"Assistant Minister Li, what kind of clever move is it?"
The subordinate asked curiously.
Ang Lee said with a smile, "Have you eaten the local food? How is the taste?"
"Assistant Minister Li, even if it is a rich family, the quality of the food is just average. It is not as delicious as the food in the school."
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