Continue north.

What Xia Duo saw were still stretches of wheat fields and the villages in the middle of the large wheat fields. From Xinqi Village to the north, although there are only a few villages away, the wheat in the field is obviously not as full and mature as before. .

Maybe it's the lack of fertility in the new land, or maybe it's because the climate in the south is warmer and matures earlier, these thoughts flashed through Xia Duo's mind when he passed by here.

Although there are no people working in the fields here, there are still many people in the village and on the road.

Xia Duo didn't cast farsightedness spells, but just watched from a distance with a pair of naked eyes. The people in the village seemed to be chatting together in the open space, completely ignoring the big sun above their heads.

As for the people on the road, when Xia Duo passed by them, he could hear from time to time people talking about going to the Southside Tavern for a drink, or going to the cultural center to see elves, and they were more discussing what the upcoming cultural and art festival would be like. .

Although Lawrence has sent more than one preaching team, and the leaders know how to play this cultural festival, they still don't know the purpose of the cultural festival held in the territory.

Some people are very puzzled, is it just for the residents to have a good time after harvesting a season? But if this is the case, why not just hold a more familiar celebration?

Some people also think that the cultural festival held in the territory may be held for those elves who have appeared from time to time in the territory recently. After all, what does culture and art have to do with a group of farmers farming? Wouldn't letting them participate make the elves see a joke?

Of course, Xia Duo heard more discussions about the cultural and art festival of the territory from the people, saying that what the lord does must have deep meaning, and the citizens just need to follow.

For this point of view, Xia Duo was both gratified and somewhat dissatisfied.

What is gratifying is that most of the citizens trust and support him, but what is dissatisfied is that this kind of trust and support seems somewhat blind.

He doesn't want the citizens to make decisions based on "as long as" or "necessary", but "because" and "only". Why do so can be better than the past.

In Xia Duo's hometown, a great man once said that "600 million Chinese people are the best of Yao and Shun", in order to praise the wisdom of the masses, and one of the greatest wealth that the old man left to future generations is the mass line.

Don't treat the masses as fools, but actively teach them and guide them, so that everyone knows the necessary process of social operation, so that each of them can participate in it through their own labor and wisdom.

Civilization, of course, is not the civilization of one person, but a civilization built and shared by all.

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Walking through the villages, Xia Duo saw that there were idle children in almost every village. Apart from the current busy farming holiday, the most important thing was that the schools in the territory were not enough to accommodate all the children.

At present, children over the age of sixteen in the territory will directly enter the Tower of Time to learn magic, while those under the age of sixteen will receive preschool education in the territory, such as writing, common sense, law, geography, arithmetic, magic, and so on.

However, there is undoubtedly a huge demand for teachers to teach so many classes. According to Xia Duo's understanding, most of the teachers in Linshui Village University currently take several classes at the same time.

Moreover, some students have to go to class, another part has to take a vacation, but the teacher never has a vacation.

Not long ago, the territory just accepted more than 200,000 new residents from the third plane of Tianshui, and children under the age of 16 accounted for almost a third of them!

This puts forward another requirement for the number of teachers in the territory.

To this end, Leiden's method is to recruit people who have mastered writing, law, and some basic common sense from among the people.

It's just that Xia Duo did not approve of this practice. It is true that many people in the territory have passed the written test and even the legal test, but it is still not enough for teaching, even if it is only used to teach children.

What Xia Duo hopes more is that every teacher is a mage, or at least an apprentice of a mage. If he is better at teaching, that would be great.

The reason why all the teachers are mages is to provide children with an opportunity to get in touch with magic at close range. Children are in the development stage, and their ideas are also sprouting. Early contact with magic can stimulate their interest.

On the other hand, it is to provide a new way out for the increasing number of new mages in the Tower of Time. In the future, of course everyone should learn magic, but not everyone has the potential to study magic.

Through various selections, people with research potential are gathered, and the remaining people can still promote the development of magic, but they don't necessarily need to engage in specialized research work.

So what do those who have learned magic do?

Now the new mages in the Tower of Time, Xia Duo uses them more as magic technicians, some directly join the magic technician department, and some of the more outstanding ones are absorbed by various independent research laboratories.

Some of them joined the Tower of Time's Academic Affairs Office and engaged in teaching work, but the objects they taught were mage apprentices, and the content they taught was magic.

Almost all jobs are directly related to magic. Even territorial magic affairs officers, which seem more like "secular" jobs, are engaged in the research, development, promotion, and popularization of civilian magic equipment.

Asking a mage to teach characters, geography, and law may involve magic, but magic is definitely not dominant. In other words, from the perspective of ordinary people, this is a great waste of mage talents.

But if you consider the importance of education to a civilization and the extent to which magic will become popular in the future, this is not a waste.

This is a relatively difficult beginning, but it is also a necessary beginning. In other territories, it is almost impossible for mages to teach ordinary people things that have nothing to do with magic.

Not only the sorcerer himself, but even the people who are being taught can hardly accept it.

But in the Great Xia Territory, these are all possible. First of all, the people of the Great Xia know what can be done and what cannot be done through the statutory law that clearly defines rights and obligations like the Great Xia Code.

Education is everyone's right, and the identity of a teacher is not stipulated by the law, so why can't it be a mage?

As for the new mages of the Tower of Time, they grew up in an atmosphere different from the traditional apprenticeship system in the past, and Xia Duo will consciously spread the idea that mages are also ordinary people inside the Tower of Time through advancement.

These new mages who have grown up from the Tower of Time are very different from those outside the mages who have separated from the masses, not to mention that the Tower of Time also has a special moral education class, which specifically spares time for apprentices to go home to help their families and villages. live.

How can a new mage who has grown up like this treat ordinary people as nothing? Maybe it is because of the so-called "intellectuals' self-esteem" that they look down on ordinary people, but they definitely don't think that they are not the same species as ordinary people.

(end of this chapter)