The Chinese Academy of Sciences held its first school meeting on July 18th, the first year of Zhenguan.
In fact, the school started on the 16th of July. Qin Mo did not plan to hold a school meeting, but he discovered a very serious problem. The class division between students was very serious.
The children of the rich and powerful were dressed in embroidered jade robes, while the children of the poor were dressed in patched clothes. They were thin and had yellow faces. Looking at the children from the rich and powerful families, they naturally had a sense of inferiority.
On the other hand, the children of the rich and powerful looked down on the children of the poor, and the school was very divided.
This was not Qin Mo's original intention for hosting the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
No matter what family these children came from or what their background was, they only had one identity in the Chinese Academy of Sciences: students.
Everyone should be equal here.
Hence, this school meeting was held.
Kong Yingda presided over the school meeting because he was able to shake the scene.
After Qin Mo told Old Kong and the others about the class division in the academy, they were extremely disgusted. They believed that there should be no discrimination in education and that all students should be equal in school.
Therefore, he volunteered to be the bad guy.
Qin Mo gave an opening speech, welcoming everyone to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and saying that their future would be even better.
Kong Yingda sat behind a megaphone made of iron sheet and began to speak," Welcome to our Chinese Academy of Sciences. Everyone here is a student of our Academy. There is no distinction between high and low, and we do not allow any distinction between high and low. You must remember this school rule. Otherwise, I will punish you and ask your parents to take you back. I believe your parents will not dare to say anything. On the contrary, they will hang you up and beat you up.”
It was not Kong Yingda trying to scare them. It was the truth. It was not because the Chinese Academy of Sciences was impressive, but because Kong Yingda and the other great scholars were famous. With so many great scholars teaching, others could not have been more eager. If one did not cherish this opportunity and did not study hard, they would be punished. Not only would their parents not dare to object, but they would also come to apologize to these old masters and say that they had beaten them well.
Therefore, Qin Mo set strict school rules, including corporal punishment.
Old Kong was the dean and was responsible for enforcing the school rules.
After the meeting, the students didn't dare to be too obvious. The children of the rich and powerful families didn't dare to discriminate or even bully the children of poor families.
But this was not enough.
Therefore, Qin Mo decided to customize school uniforms for them. Otherwise, the children of the rich and powerful families would wear brocade clothes and the children of the poor would wear ragged clothes. It would be empty talk to eliminate division.
Therefore, Qin Mo called over the tailor from the clothing shop to measure all the children's bodies and customize their school uniforms.
Each person had four sets of summer clothes and four sets of winter clothes. There was also a uniform set of underwear and shoes.
Of course, the students had their own uniforms, and the security guards of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had also customized their uniforms.
Although they were all coarse robes and cloth clothes, Qin Mo had asked the clothing shop to speed up the work and paid an extra 20%. The total cost had reached 1,000 strings.
Three days later, the first batch of clothes arrived. The students wore the same school uniform, looking neat and tidy. Their spirits also improved a lot.
It wasn't that no one had challenged the authority of the Academy. Hou Junji's nephew, Hou Yu, deliberately didn't wear his school uniform, so Kong Yingda had to enforce the first rule of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was locked up for three days.
After coming out, Hou Yu's attitude changed drastically. He put on his school uniform and went around describing the horror of the detention room, persuading people not to be confined.
Of course, there were those who didn't believe it. Cheng Chuliang expressed that the detention room was so interesting that he wanted to take a look, so he deliberately made trouble. Old Kong didn't hesitate to lock him up.
After coming out, Cheng Chuliang also told his friends about the horror of the solitary room, so the school atmosphere changed greatly.
It had been ten days since school started.
Qin Mo, Kong Yingda, Yan Shigu, and the others stood at the top of King Qin's residence, watching the students in uniform doing morning exercises.
Of course, Qin Mo would not admit that he had a bad taste in letting the students do morning exercises, nor would he personally lead the exercise. After he called Xue Rengui over, he called him twice, and he remembered it. Then, he became the leader.
"Stretching exercises, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.”
Kong Yingda looked at the moist children and stroked his beard with a smile." This is education. The saints say that there is no greater good than teaching without discrimination.”
The 300 children were divided into six classes according to their age, with an average of 50 students in each class. The reason why there were so many classes was mainly to take into account the lack of teachers.
Ma Zhou became a math teacher, and Jia Luren became a science teacher. Of course, people like Kong Yingda and Yan Shigu wouldn't personally teach such a difficult subject like reading and writing. These were all taught by their disciples and grand-disciples.
The commonly used version of Pinyin had been compiled, and the students of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were the first test subjects.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences was also the first to promote Arabic numbers.
Children above the age of ten who had studied mathematics had already mastered ten Arabic numbers.
Only a large class of children above the age of ten would teach Confucianism.
Physics and chemistry were only taught to the children in the upper class. After all, the younger children could not even read. They would not understand physics and chemistry even if they were taught.
Of course, the children were all staying in the dormitory. Qin Mo had mixed the children of the rich and powerful with the children of the poor. After a period of time, everyone became familiar with each other.
Yan Shigu sighed." These children are very motivated to learn. In time, they will definitely become great talents.”
This was exactly what Qin Mo wanted to see.
Children from poor families cherished this opportunity and studied very hard.
As for the children of influential families, they were also born of concubines. They knew early on that there was no hope for them to continue the family business. If they didn't know, Qin Mo would have asked the teachers to have a heart-to-heart talk with them. Therefore, they understood. With the opportunity to change their fate, they were full of enthusiasm to learn.
Everything was developing according to Qin Mo's plan.
Mathematics, Pinyin, Physics, Chemistry, and Nature. These seeds of science would one day take root in the Great Tang and grow into towering trees.
There were so few scholars in the Great Tang. After these children graduated, they would definitely be able to shine in various fields and spread scientific ideas throughout the Great Tang.
This day might take a long time, but Qin Mo had enough patience. He believed that this day would definitely come.
He knew better than anyone else the harm Confucianism could do to this nation, but he had cleverly refrained from directly confronting Confucianism, nor did he intend to eliminate it. He only wanted to add scientific ideas to the Confucianism of the Great Tang, so even Kong Yingda and the others did not object.
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