Chapter 304 Learning Routines

Learning routines

They come from a hard-working background and cannot do jobs that require using their brains.

"Once you can learn to read, you can write letters home by yourself." After working in the Women's Federation, Lin Xia discovered that the sisters-in-law in the family quarters would go to them when they wrote letters home, and when they received the letters, they would go to people who could read them.

"You are here too!"

"Yes! Even if we can recognize words, we can't write!"

“It’s really too difficult!”

Looking at this group of sisters-in-law, Lin Xia wanted to shout in her heart that it was too difficult. This was even harder than asking her to take the college entrance examination again.

If this job wasn't like this, she would definitely not bother to persuade people to study and improve. Anyone who studies will know the answer.

Seeing that Lin Xia stopped trying to persuade them, the sisters-in-law continued to busy themselves with their work and chatted about gossip with great energy. They did not show the bitterness and resentment they had just shown when they talked about studying.

Lin Xia: “…”

Lin Xia seemed to see her classmates who were drowsy in class in her previous life, but became energetic after class.

So, as long as you don’t study, you will have enough energy to do other things, right?

After dinner, Yang Hongmei came to visit as usual. Lin Xia had suffered a serious setback from her other sister-in-law today, and when she saw Yang Hongmei, she had some ideas.

"Sister-in-law, do you want to learn to read?" Seeing that Yang Hongmei was so enthusiastic about studying cooking, Lin Xia felt that she was the kind of person who loved to learn.

Yang Hongmei recalled that when she was little, she wanted to go to school, but it was difficult to go there. Later, she settled down, but her family was poor. "I am so old now, and it is useless to learn to read."

"What I have learned will definitely be useful." It will be less than two years since the release, and by that time there will certainly be many more jobs. Many workers and teachers who are within the age range will definitely go to college.

Apart from anything else, if she wants to do some small business after the opening up, it is definitely necessary to be able to read and do accounting. Yang Hongmei is only in her early thirties and is very young. When her children grow up, she will have to find something to do.

Thinking of Yang Hongmei's envious look every time she saw An An studying, Lin Xia suggested, "If you want your children to study well, you have to be a role model for them."

Yang Hongmei was stunned, looking at Dajun and Xiaojun who were very serious, and asked in confusion, "How can my studying make them better at studying?"

"I can't guarantee it, but the behavior of parents can directly affect their children." Lin Xia thinks that teaching by example makes sense. "I love reading. An An is not to mention, but the two little ones can sit still and play by themselves."

Lin Xia had heard a saying in her previous life that children's concentration is most easily diverted, and if they are trained from a young age, it will also be beneficial for other things they do in the future. It can not only be trained while studying, but also while playing.

Yang Hongmei was moved by this statement, but she still looked a little hesitant.

"But I always feel sleepy while listening!" Yang Hongmei was distressed. She really wanted to learn, but every time she sat in the classroom, her head felt like a chicken pecking at rice.

Lin Xia had experienced such a situation before, but at that time she had to work hard to learn to get out of her small circle. Later, she developed her concentration and benefited a lot from it in her work.

But these sisters-in-law don’t have to take exams, nor do they have to leave their small hometown. They have no motivation to study at all, so it is normal for them to feel sleepy and unable to study.

Thinking of the spirit of the sisters-in-law when they were gossiping, Lin Xia had an idea: how can she get them to do the same when they are studying?

After Yang Hongmei left, Lin Xia was still thinking about it.

"What are you thinking about?" Lu Yuxiu saw Lin Xia staring at the food on the plate in a daze, and she didn't pick up her chopsticks for a long time.

"What was the situation like when your army held literacy classes? Were they serious in class?" Lin Xia asked Lu Yuxiu curiously, then she remembered that not only the sisters-in-law had to attend, but the army probably paid more attention to this.

Lu Yuxiu knew that she was busy with literacy work. Thinking of the group of people in the army taking classes, he couldn't help but have a headache, "......"

It was the first time that Lin Xia saw Lu Yuxiu in such a troubled state. Her frustrated mood suddenly improved a lot. She asked with a look of excitement, "Tell me about it quickly."

There was nothing to hide, so Lu Yuxiu told him about the difficulties he encountered in class.

Many soldiers, including officers, need to improve their cultural literacy, but asking them to attend classes and learn knowledge is more difficult than going to the battlefield. Every time the instructors fail to give classes, they have to complain to their superiors.

He joined the army when he was halfway through his schooling. He was not averse to learning, but for someone who didn't know any words, attending classes was more difficult than fighting in a war.

After a class, I was in a state where I could recognize a single word, but I didn’t recognize any.

Unfortunately, in the army, attending classes is compulsory and you can't just not go if you don't want to.

Lin Xia was delighted to hear this, and she felt much better when she saw that Lu Yuxiu also seemed to be having a headache.

The next day when I went to work at the Women's Federation, I went to see Director Pei first.

"Are there any questions about the class content?" Director Pei looked at Lin Xia in confusion, wondering why she asked about the content of the literacy class.

"The class content is too boring, and my sisters-in-law don't like to listen." This is what Lin Xia suddenly thought of. In her previous life, she was also a person who was good at one subject but not the other, and she knew how uncomfortable it was to listen to a class you didn't like.

Since my sisters-in-law find pure literacy boring and difficult, it would be better to change to something interesting and practical. We are not going to send them to college, so it is better to start with other knowledge.

Director Pei pondered for a few minutes. Although he didn't quite understand what Lin Xia wanted to do, based on the successful things she had done before, he was willing to listen to her and give it a try.

Lin Xia immediately started to prepare new teaching content. The text was simple, and she planned to directly replace it with a story, which would be easier to remember and would not be so boring to learn.

As for mathematics, I am not going to do so many arithmetic problems. It is better to start from the aspect of spending money on groceries. After all, it will be a headache for those sisters-in-law to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but asking them to calculate how much cheaper they are will really touch their hearts.

Sure enough, telling stories is much more interesting than teaching the Thousand Character Classic directly.

Lin Xia also divided the story into chapters. The story that could be heard every day was only a part of it, and each time it would be interrupted at the most exciting part. The sisters-in-law also protested, but unfortunately the protest was ineffective.

If you want to listen to the next chapter, everyone must recognize five words. The words recognized every day cannot be repeated. Lin Xia has kept records of them.

If someone can't remember it, they have to wait until they remember it before they can see the next one, which really whets the sisters-in-law's appetite.

Some people thought it was too difficult and didn't want to learn it anymore, but before Lin Xia could say anything, they returned to the classroom dejectedly and had to make up for the missed words.

It was really because the stories in class were so popular that when the sisters-in-law chatted together, they all started discussing where the story had developed to and what would happen next.

Those who didn't go to class couldn't understand anything and couldn't even get a word in. Finally, they couldn't stand being isolated and had to go back to class.