Chapter 134 Compulsory Education
"Unified thoughts and unified national consciousness"
After hearing this, Ying Zheng couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, as if he didn't agree with it.
Not only Ying Zheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, but even the civil and military officials present sighed and shook their heads.
Li Yang was surprised, was the idea he said was a problem
"Your Majesty, I think it's inappropriate," Li Yang said in confusion.
Ying Zheng shook his head and sighed, "It's not that it's inappropriate, but that it's impossible to unify thoughts and consciousness."
At this time, everyone nodded, "Yes, how can human thoughts be so easy to unify, as the saying goes, they can regulate their actions, but they can't regulate their minds."
In fact, when Li Yang mentioned that "the people of the six countries do not return their hearts" was not returned, Ying Zheng had long realized it when unifying the six countries, and had made great efforts to do so.
In order to unify the thoughts of the people of the six countries and change their consciousness, Ying Zheng specially built a doctoral hall in Xianyang Palace, and appointed hundreds of Confucian scholars, and granted them the position of doctoral officers, giving them supreme and honor. He even asked Fusu to worship Chunyu Yue, a famous Confucian scholar, as his teacher. What is this for?
In fact, it is to hope that these disciples and disciples of Confucius can help Daqin educate the people of the six countries and educate the people of the world, so that Daqin can regard Daqin as its own country.
But the final result
These Confucian scholars enjoyed the benefits given by the Qin Dynasty, while talking about bad things about him, Ying Zheng, behind their backs.
Not only did he say that Ying Zheng was obsessed with immortal arts, but he even said that Ying Zheng was a tyrant
In order to use these Confucius disciples to educate the people of the world, the influence of these Confucian scholars had a counterproductive effect, making the people of the six countries even more hate the Qin Dynasty.
Not only that, later, these Confucian scholars began to oppose the county system and united in the outside world of Qilin to force Ying Zheng to restore the feudal system.
This made Ying Zheng unable to bear it anymore, so he killed more than 400 Confucian scholars led by Chunyu Yue and burned their poems and books.
People in the world even regard the evil of Shi Huang and scold him for burning books and burying scholars. In the previous chapter, many people said that burying scholars is the killing of sorcerers. In fact, these are two things. Professor Wang Liqun, a Hundred School Forum, said that the previous one killed sorcerers, and the next one killed more than 400 Confucian scholars led by Chunyu Yue.
In short, Ying Zheng paid too much to unify his thinking for the people of the six countries, but in the end he gained bitterness.
Now, I heard Li Yang mention unifying thoughts and unifying consciousness again. Do you think Ying Zheng can not shake his head and smile bitterly?
The civil and military ministers in the court also knew that it was impossible to unify their thoughts because of the previous examples.
At this time, Li Si reminded Li Yang, "Prime Minister, His Majesty relied on the students of the Confucius family in order to unify the thoughts of the people of the six countries, but"
Speaking of this, Li Si shook his head with a wry smile, and it was difficult to mention the matter of burning books and burying scholars.
Hearing this, Li Yang suddenly realized and finally understood why they were so disapproving of this matter.
Knowing the crux of the problem, this matter is easy to deal with. Li Yang immediately said, "Your Majesty, although the old saying is good, it is difficult to regulate one's actions, but people's thoughts are not impossible to shape. Just find the right method, and the people of the Qin Dynasty will be able to unify their thoughts."
"You have a way." Ying Zheng was stunned when he heard Li Yang's tone in such a sure tone.
Everyone looked at him curiously, thinking that this guy had some other strange ideas.
Sure enough, Li Yang nodded confidently and said, "I do have a way to shape the thoughts and national consciousness of the people of our Great Qin."
Ying Zheng looked speechless.
"What's the solution? Let's talk about it."
Although Ying Zheng was a little disgusted with Li Yang's keeping a secret, the issue of unifying the ideology and consciousness of the people has always been a difficult heart disease in Ying Zheng's heart. He wanted to solve this problem too much, but he was helpless.
Now, after hearing Li Yang's confident statement that there is a way, it is naturally igniting hope again.
Li Yang said, "Reply to Your Majesty, my method is actually very simple, which is to promote compulsory education."
"compulsory education"
Everyone looked confused
What is compulsory education famous?
Seeing that everyone could not understand, Li Yang had to explain, "To put it simply, it means forcing children of appropriate age to receive learning and let them study as a duty. Every child of appropriate age must do it. Therefore, I call it compulsory education."
"What is the mandatory requirement for children to read"
When he heard this, the whole area was in an uproar.
I thought Li Yang had some good idea, but it turned out that he was just like before, letting the Kong disciple educate the children.
Isn't this the old path I've followed?
For a moment, everyone shook their heads and chuckled.
If the student of the Kong family was willing to educate the children well, the emperor would not be helpless until now.
At this time, Feng Quji immediately listed, "The teacher of the world is mostly a disciple of the Kong family. After the murder of Confucianism and burning books, Confucianism in the world slandered our Great Qin and asked them to perform the duties of education. Oh, I'm afraid it will disappoint you, Prime Minister."
Everyone nodded.
Even Li Si shook his head this time, feeling that Li Yang's method this time was exactly the same as what they did at the beginning, without any new ideas.
This method was not working before. After burning books and burying scholars, I even thought about it even more.
At this moment, Ying Zheng frowned, and he was very unhappy.
Li Yang always had a brilliant plan. He thought he could still surprise him this time, but he didn't expect that he would be disappointed this time.
Ying Zheng sighed and asked, "Li Yang, this is the good way you said."
Li Yang smiled disapprovingly and said confidently, "Go to Your Majesty, although this method seems to be similar to the strategies I took back then, it is actually very different."
When everyone heard this, they looked at Li Yang in surprise, and were very puzzled.
Apart from forcing children to learn, is there any difference between the strategies they took back then?
Ying Zheng didn't agree, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's the difference?"
Li Yang said, "First, the education I carried out back then was that Confucian scholars under Confucius taught children, and they were called human education. That is, Confucian scholars taught their own thoughts, their own views on Qin, and their own knowledge to students. The difference between compulsory education is to teach students based on their talents. The so-called materials refer to the books and textbooks compiled by our Daqin masters, and they teach the knowledge of the textbooks to students. This is a big difference."
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Everyone was stunned.
Although everyone didn't understand what Li Yang said very well, they had already noticed the difference.
Ying Zheng also heard a trace of eyebrows, but he couldn't grasp the point of Li Yang's speech for a while, so he quickly said, "You can tell me carefully."
Li Yang nodded and explained, "Your Majesty, when relying on Confucian scholars to educate children, it was actually to let children accept the ideas of Confucian scholars. This is wrong from the starting point. Do I want the next generation to respect Confucian scholars?"
Ying Zheng was shocked.
He suddenly discovered that he had never discovered the fatal problem Li Yang mentioned.
Ying Zheng did not dare to interrupt Li Yang, so he quickly said, "Continue"
"Since my great Qin wants to unify the thoughts and consciousness of the people, we naturally want to shape the ideological consciousness that is beneficial to the country and the prosperity of the great Qin Dynasty. Therefore, how to teach and what to teach cannot be decided by the teacher himself, but must strictly follow the teaching materials specially compiled by my great Qin. In this way, as long as the ideas of the textbooks are not wrong, the knowledge and thoughts learned by children are naturally correct. More importantly, as long as the literate person can be a teacher, and there is no need for Confucian scholars to teach."
When Li Yang said this, he saw that everyone was stunned and smiled. He then said, "Textbooks can be divided into three subjects, one can read and write articles, called Chinese courses, one can do theory and mathematics, one can do theory and morality, and one can do theory and politics. In this way, after learning three subjects, children can read literacy, write articles, read numbers, calculate accounts, value virtue, and shape ideas. When these children grow up, their writing can be perfect, and their thinking can be loyal to the king and the country. Aren't they all the pillars of my Great Qin? At the time of the time, they can choose the best ones to use for the Great Qin."
Hearing this, Ying Zheng was a little excited.
And everyone else looked surprised.
What Li Yang said was not only very knowledgeable, but also the methods he said were extremely exquisite, even making people feel a sense of enlightenment.
Li Si was so excited that he planned to use Confucian scholars to educate children. In fact, he was implementing the policy of implementing it, but the result was extremely bad.
Now, after listening to Li Yang's analysis, he realized that there were so many problems in the politics he was doing back then.
At the same time, he also found that the educational method that Li Yang said that relies on textbooks is really feasible.
Thinking of this, do you think he is not excited
At that moment, he immediately asked "How to compile the textbook"
Li Yang replied, "Chinese textbooks are just to read, so you can choose some classic poems and essays. Mathematics textbooks are just to recognize numbers and operations. The important thing is political textbooks, which must include basic moral thought, moral thought, common sense in law, and achievements such as our Qin Dynasty ending the war in the world. Of course, General Meng Tian also drives away foreign enemies and guards the border. You can also be included in it. For details, you can discuss them separately. In short, this lesson is to unify thoughts and enhance our Chinese national consciousness."
Everyone nodded, feeling that what Li Yang said was comprehensive enough.
Ying Zheng even praised "This method is very wonderful"
After pondering for a while, he frowned and said, "If you implement this matter, it will be quite difficult."
Well, it's up to the point
Li Yang immediately told the emperor, "It is quite difficult, and it takes a lot of effort to compile textbooks. Therefore, I suggest that the Education Department be added to be responsible for compulsory education and the compilation of textbooks."
Ying Zheng pondered for a moment, and immediately said, "You and Li Si will be fully responsible for this matter."
"Here"
Li Yang was overjoyed and quickly took the order with Li Si.
Chapter completed!