"No problem!" the child answered loudly.
Shuiqing thought the schedule was quite good. The older children could finish their studies in the morning without delaying their daily work, while the younger children had less work to do each day, so losing two hours in the morning wouldn't have a big impact.
The learning environment here is not as good as in China. It's not to the point where everything has to give way for studying. To be precise, it's similar to China in the 1970s and 80s. While studying, you have to cut pig feed, feed pigs and herd sheep in the morning and evening. During the busy farming season, you can't neglect farming and harvesting.
Studying for two hours a day, focusing only on Chinese and math, isn't too stressful.
There are over two thousand commonly used characters and over one thousand less commonly used characters. The Ming and Guo characters may be even fewer. Even if there are only three thousand characters in each category, if you learn five or six characters a day, it will be enough to learn them in two or three years.
After all, it wasn't for the imperial examinations, so there was no need to write essays or be proficient in poetry and prose. It was more like a literacy class, with practicality as the main focus.
"The study has two rooms, one for boys and one for girls over the age of twelve."
The villagers could understand that they lived in separate houses, since there were many young girls of marriageable age, and it was better to separate them. However, how could Fan Jin teach them all by himself if they were separated?
Should we teach one side first and then the other? Wouldn't that be too tiring for Fan Jin?
"I will teach the boys, and Yan Qiu and Xing Hui will teach the girls. We three will also take turns teaching those under the age of twelve," Fan Jin explained to everyone.
He originally planned to teach by himself, but a few days ago he realized that he could not just be a schoolteacher in the village; he still had to take the imperial examination.
Although the path to the imperial examination was difficult, it was necessary to take it and succeed.
So what if Yan Qiuxing is a girl? There are so many female teachers, female educators, and female doctors in the world, why can't there be two more of her?
Zhang Chunhua complained, "Da Ya and Er Ya are just little girls themselves. How many words can they recognize? Can they teach us well?"
That's right, she's also planning to learn it. Since there's no tuition fee, wouldn't it be a waste not to learn something that's free?
Moreover, the girls in the village who are about her age are all working in the herbal medicine shop. They certainly can't read, so once she can read, she will be able to outdo them.
Xu Ting quickly stepped forward and said timidly, "Chunhua, you and Yan Qiuxing haven't seen each other often, so you don't know them. They not only know a lot of characters, but they also write very beautifully!"
They were more than capable of teaching us; they taught us all the characters we know.
Li Tiantian, unlike Xu Ting, had no good temper and snorted directly, "Of course she doesn't know! Look, she even got the name wrong!"
Zhang Chunhua froze when she heard Xu Ting's last sentence, and asked incredulously, "You can read? When did this happen?"
How come she didn't know anything about it?
"I learned it while working at the herbal medicine shop. Yan Qiu would come over every day to teach us a few frequently used characters. We practiced a lot during our lunch breaks and after work, and now we know several hundred characters," Xu Ting said proudly.
They've been at the herbal medicine shop for almost eighty days. At first, they learned the simplest characters, five or six a day. Later, they gradually increased the difficulty, but learning two or three wasn't difficult. Over time, they've learned three or four hundred characters. Yan Qiu said that in another six months or so, reading articles and accounts won't be a problem.
Zhang Chunhua opened her mouth, then turned to look at her cousin, Zhang Xiaocao.
She also works at the herbal medicine shop, so wouldn't she know several characters by now?
Zhang Xiaocao understood her cousin's thoughts perfectly well, and deliberately said, "You don't like it, but we really want it!"
Zhang Chunhua reluctantly shut her mouth, feeling deep down that the girl's upbringing must not be very good.
Yan Qiu saw the resentment on her face, but remained silent.
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