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Chapter 737: Educational System under the Limitations of the Times

This brings us back to Hamlet's unique education system.

Ultimately, it is because 99% of the students were illiterate at the beginning, and Hamlet's teaching staff was too weak. The teachers were not much better than the students, and the management of their learning progress was chaotic.

Therefore, Lance clearly stated at the beginning that the current education was mainly aimed at eliminating illiteracy, concentrating efforts on using real teachers to provide short-term training for those with a basic knowledge.

The teachers in this section just learn a hundred or so words and focus on them.

The first grade teacher teaches about a hundred words, the second grade teacher teaches another hundred, and the third grade teacher teaches another hundred.

To put it simply, you used to need a thousand words to be a teacher, but now a hundred is enough, and if you keep repeating these hundred words, you will be more proficient in them than with a thousand.

Directly implement the education assembly line, where teachers in each grade are only responsible for a part, splitting the original complex problems and solving the problem of weak teaching staff.

It only takes two or three months for the three-grade literacy classes to finish, and some smart children can learn to read and write these words in a month.

At this point, a vocabulary of 500 words is enough to support their daily reading, and being able to read means being able to learn independently, which means the end of literacy and the entry into the next stage.

This group of people includes not only minors, but most of the minors live in school dormitories. In fact, it also includes some adults, mainly young people.

Workers and farmers with good performance were selected from workshops and farms to be sent to study, mainly young and middle-aged people under the age of 25. Their learning ability had not completely declined, and their tuition was paid by the lord.

One of the measures taken by Lance in this matter is fairness. Women are admitted equally. Don't think that women cannot go to school. In fact, more attention is paid to this aspect of education for those who have some money.

The most direct example is the backgrounds of Tiffany, Margaret and Audrey. They were both wealthy and aristocratic, and all received a good education. The former studied arithmetic, and the latter two even took high-end courses such as equestrianism.

However, it is difficult for women from ordinary families to have the opportunity to study. The average life expectancy is less than 30 years old, and most of them get married at the age of 12 or 13.

This is not gender discrimination, but a survival dilemma. People can live well without working and have plenty of time to study and entertain themselves, but you will starve to death if you don't work.

Families that are struggling to survive cannot possibly invest in their children, because boys in ordinary families don’t have many opportunities to go to school and become slaves at an early age.

Therefore, the real root cause is the conflict caused by the different social resources occupied by different classes, which has nothing to do with gender.

Lance made a straightforward decision that men and women under the age of sixteen in the territory could not get married. He educated people on human development and made them realize that some situations are normal.

At the same time, it also warns about the negative effects of underage childbearing. In fact, not only girls, but also boys' precocious puberty will leave sequelae.

There is no energy for free love in Hamlet now, because it is not in the interest of Reims, and he also needs more people and more families.

However, Lance still gave them opportunities. He used schools to protect minors, used factories and farms to recruit young people to work, and gave them the ability to live independently.

Then we will select some capable and well-performing people for training, and allocate some of the resources that originally belonged to the upper class so that the working class and peasant class can also get the opportunity to get education.

A group is selected, and they study for a month before being replaced by another group. In this way, the monthly model workers are rotated to give more people opportunities.

Because there will be a night school re-learning program, those who have completed their studies will return to the workshops and farms and teach more people through night school.

In fact, it is the same as the school’s three-step plan to further promote the literacy campaign.

The grassroots management capabilities of these people have also been developed. After all, teaching is not easy, and dealing with those at the bottom is also difficult.

In addition, Lance encouraged them to learn independently. The more they learned, the better, and the more priority they would be given for promotion and rewards.

As for the study materials, they are those compiled announcements and official documents. After learning them, you will have some understanding of Hamlet's systems and policies, and you need to be able to read thousands of words.

This is the promotion channel that Lance has paved for them, and it is also to train grassroots managers. Otherwise, they cannot read official announcements and cannot understand policies. They cannot write reports and find it difficult to handle related affairs.

In fact, this is a preparation for discovering talents, cultivating talents, liberating productivity, and seizing power at the grassroots level.

One of the important reasons why Lance has not been in a hurry to recover the lost territory is because it has no one on its hands. In that case, even if it recovers the territory, Lance cannot control the grassroots. Wouldn't it still be a wedding dress for the church, gangs, local clans and the like?
If he wants to fight, he will definitely sweep all the garbage into the garbage dump at once. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a waste of effort if he has to re-employ a large number of original bureaucrats like Owendo?
So in Lance's eyes, there is no such thing as men or women, they are all consumables, but he just needs some high-quality consumables.

These three grades were very simple, even inferior and ridiculous in the eyes of the big guys, but they formed the foundation of the school.

Those who walk out from here will also form the foundation of Hamlet's territory.

From the third grade onwards, students move beyond the literacy stage and begin truly systematic learning. The corresponding course types also gradually increase, and the level of teachers also rises sharply. They are all talents that Lance can recruit.

Mathematics is a very important subject. Lance's level is just so-so and he has returned most of the relevant knowledge to the teacher, but he knows how to promote numbers and symbols and simplify the whole complicated system.

Open classes are organized from time to time, and real masters from all walks of life come to teach them.

Greendale would teach them how to identify plants, simple herbal medicine, or common methods of mixing potions.

Paracelsus would teach them anatomy, first aid, and some medical techniques.

Boudica taught them how to fight, Reynald taught them how to use weapons, and Disma taught them how to shoot...

Maybe Bigby could play a chemistry teacher? But he looks socially anxious and probably wouldn't be suitable.

Anyway, apart from the basic courses, they have a lot of other courses to fill in, and it mainly depends on whether the teacher is available.

Of course, teachers do not necessarily have to be these people. In Hamlet, which is full of talented people, there are many people who can be their teachers.

The existence of the specialty class is that Lance gathers together those geniuses with outstanding performance and extraordinary people with spellcasting talents for teaching.

And they will come into contact with the truth of this world and extraordinary power.

Lance's requirements for them are three stages: understanding, control, and analysis.

Science is a tool, and now Lance wants to instill in them the scientific and supernatural perspective, and in the future he will use this "scalpel" to carefully analyze the supernatural power.

Of course, that is an ideal. Right now they haven't even fully started learning ancient characters, and many of them are still children.

Of course, there are also some adults, such as the Musketeer Margaret, the daughter of Baron Lawrence, who is upright, brave, and shining with human brilliance.

This girl insisted on joining the Royal Guard, but Lance didn't want to let her take risks, because one more or one less wouldn't make much difference, but if something really happened to her it would be troublesome, so he told her about her talent and let her learn relevant knowledge. Wouldn't it be great if she could become a spellcaster by then!
She had hardly ever gone up to the ruins, nor had she ever been into the dungeon, so she stayed right here at the school.

Because she is also the head teacher of this special class. After all, she has received aristocratic education, and she has a good personality and is responsible.

She is paired with two bodyguards, Joan of Arc, and a young man named Isaac, who are the class monitor and deputy class monitor.

Lance also seemed to have discovered that most of these awakenings occurred from the age of eighteen onwards, when adolescent emotions were at their most intense.

Don’t be fooled by Margaret’s appearance; she was only seventeen years old, and Joan of Arc was only twelve.

Isaac has no family and his exact age is unknown, but he looks to be around ten years old. However, this child is very precocious mentally and emotionally stable, unlike a child of this age.

More importantly, he has a strong learning ability and completed basic education at an exaggerated pace of almost skipping grades. In just a few months, the teachers were left with nothing to teach him, showing his extraordinary talent.

This kind of passive reception of information is nothing; strong self-learning ability is the key. He is very interested in mathematics, but unfortunately Lance knows that in a world where supernatural powers exist, physical concepts would be different, so many of them are useless.

But he was allowed to study on his own, so Lance opened many books in the library to him and gave him the position of a trainee experimenter in the research institute.

You know, there are many technologies in the institute that Lance has collected and recorded, such as the development of various gun technologies, steel alloys, steam engines, trains, ships, airplanes, electricity, oil, coal...

These are just general principles. Lance doesn't know or remember the details. They need to be verified and implemented by future generations.

This shows how courageous Lance is, as he actually delegated power to a child. Of course, it can also be considered that he spared no effort in training him.

Hamlet is now penniless and has nothing, but he will do his best to support and train them.

It was now extremely dark, blocking out the sun, but that didn't stop them from studying. Several torches illuminated most of the classroom, and the students gathered in front of the podium instead of sitting in their usual seats.

These children all cherished this opportunity and listened carefully to the lectures and learned. However, some of them were too young and could not understand what Amanda taught in class.

Just like the brother and sister Tom and Mary who awakened during the Wolf Warrior invasion, the brother was still listening to the class seriously and taking notes, but the sister was daydreaming after a while. If she hadn't been afraid of the teacher, she would have fallen asleep by now.

It seems that not everyone is a genius.

Lance didn't care. Instead, he smiled naturally when he saw this scene. It was normal for children. He was only five or six years old and hadn't yet matured, so he might not be better than her.

If only Hamlet's children were so carefree, he could retire and enjoy his life.

Lance was not in a hurry to leave and just listened to the class at the back door.

He was an archaeologist, so he could naturally understand the mysticism based on ancient characters.

This is why it can be felt that Amanda is being secretive and mysterious when she teaches. Those students have no basic knowledge and do not have Isaac's talent, so naturally they are confused.

Did Amanda really not understand? Lance had heard her give him a lecture and knew that she did it on purpose, just like the logic of "the law cannot be spread lightly", she was screening the audience.

After all, Amanda's conservatism towards knowledge is probably a common problem among spellcasters, and it is due to the times.

The suppression of the church, the danger of supernatural powers, and the struggles among supernatural beings, fools are not qualified to survive in the high-pressure environment faced by supernatural beings.

Moreover, she is an irresponsible person with too many personality problems, so Amanda can only be a substitute teacher. She teaches one or two classes when she is free and finds something to do to kill time.

When the get out of class was over, Lance finally walked in from the dim back door. When his figure was illuminated by the firelight, he was greeted by voices of greeting.

"Lord Lord!"

"Okay, okay, there are no lords or adults here. There are only teachers and students in the school."

Lance smiled and waved his hand to suppress their restlessness, then nodded to Amanda.

"Thank you for your hard work, Teacher Amanda."

I'm not making fun of her. She's a consultant and this isn't her job. It's already a honor for her to be able to help you teach.

Everything is taught according to the textbooks, and the quality of teaching is also a matter of personal style. Lance would not blame her.

If you want to use this person, you have to be tolerant. No one is perfect.

Amanda had already noticed the lord's arrival, but she didn't say anything. She would definitely say something after the get out of class, so she walked down the podium to make room.

"Teacher Amanda's lecture was good. I am also itching to show off my skills. Don't believe me, I am a scholar..."

Lance began to talk on the podium, starting with what Amanda had just taught.

Compared to Amanda's obscure and difficult to understand lectures, Lance's lectures were enlightening. Things that I didn't understand before became clear to me all of a sudden, as if the darkness before my eyes was dispelled by light.

But Lance didn't come here just to talk about these things. He was using this topic to introduce their extraordinary scientific views with all the interesting things he had seen.

Why did the extraordinary people come to this point? Much of it was caused by their crazy and barbaric growth.

They lose control from time to time, perform some weird rituals from time to time, and kill people for their own benefit using all kinds of strange means. It's no wonder that they are resisted.

There is no systematic training, it is not stable enough and it affects other people.

These lessons must be learned. They can no longer be just one or two warnings circulated among extraordinary people. They seem mysterious and noble, but are actually a joke.

Lance wants to leave something for Hamlet and the world before taking the final step.

We discover, we study, we control!

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