The popularization of new scientific knowledge began.
Scholars have been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, although traditional culture is mostly focused on the study of the mind, which is quite limited to the discussion of human nature and institutions.
The cognition of the natural world is also a unique system, although it will ultimately be related to the general trend of human hearts.
Although we don’t know much about Dongjiao University and the like, we don’t take them seriously.
The classics passed down for thousands of years have already covered everything. All the knowledge of later generations is nothing but repetition of others’ ideas. The ancients already had insights.
With this attitude, everyone started the first class with a mixture of contempt.
It’s fine if you don’t listen, but once you hear it, you’ll be confused.
When Mo Xiaohu gave his first lecture, he naturally started from the simple to the difficult, starting with an overview.
From the sun rising in the east and setting in the west to chemical changes, the world is full of various forces. Two iron balls fall to the ground at the same time...
These things are like fantasy to these scholars who are immersed in traditional education.
All the things we learned before, such as how to interact with others, how to control others, how to cultivate one's mind and character, how to manage a family and govern a country, are missing!
It's all about studying the laws of nature...purely technical work.
It is very different from the heresy you imagined.
But when Mo Xiaohu and other teachers took out teaching aids and started teaching, the situation changed again.
The physics teacher specially got a set of pulleys and began to let the students in the class take turns to go on stage and experience it.
Many people were very interested and temporarily put aside their contempt and went forward to try it with great enthusiasm.
We usually stay in our study or compose poetry with others outside and have no contact with these things at all.
They simply didn't believe that just having a few wheels could save a lot of effort.
Not until I touched it myself did I have to admit that this thing is really something!
The huge stone that originally took two people too much to move can actually save a lot of effort with such a simple structure!
It took an hour to finish explaining the basic physics, and then the chemistry class began to take place.
He took out a bunch of glassware for experiments and began to explain acid-base experiments, combustion tests, etc. He also demonstrated mineral analysis.
Methods such as heating, grinding, and dissolving began to appear one by one, and naturally the candidates had to join in the experiments themselves.
After only two classes, many people's curiosity has been greatly aroused.
At noon, no one felt hungry. Instead, they listened to the lecture attentively.
Although I currently cannot understand what this thing is useful for, it does not seem to conflict with the teachings of sages...and it is quite interesting if you don't mind talking about it.
It’s like opening the door to a new world!
After a day passed and until the subjects they had chosen to major in were finished, most people actually felt like they had not yet finished.
Even Zhou Maoxue, who had always been somewhat hostile to Fang Zhengyi, had to admit it.
Today was truly an eye-opener!
Fang Zhengyi was also quite surprised.
According to Dongjiao University's experience, the most people choose to study physics and civil engineering, as these subjects can make money quickly after graduation. After all, relevant talents are scarce.
However, these scholars in the academy were extremely interested in biology.
The structure of the human skeleton, the precise composition of blood vessels, and the fact that insects breathe through their buttocks, etc., all made everyone exclaim in amazement.
It was not until the microscope was demonstrated on the spot that this curiosity was pushed to the peak.
Many people crowded forward to see what animal and plant cells looked like.
After everyone took turns reading it, someone finally asked the eternal question.
What does a drop of liquid that is equivalent to ten drops look like under a microscope...
Once this thought-provoking question was raised, everyone's attention was immediately diverted.
In order to achieve outstanding teaching results, Fang Zhengyi immediately sent people to search for the miraculous liquid.
Fortunately, when the house was rented, the owner thoughtfully left the big black dog that served as a guard house, and it happened to be a male!
The Jinyiwei disguised as servants caught the black dog on the spot, twisted it to the corner and forced it to squeeze out dog juice, squeezing out a bottle cap of juice for teaching.
Seeing the tadpoles swimming in the indescribable liquid with blood streaks, the candidates were shocked...
It turns out they are not puppies, but tadpoles, and there are so many of them!
Then why are there only so few offspring?
Everyone was whispering and speculating enthusiastically.
Perhaps it is because these tadpole-shaped paparazzi compete fiercely, and bite and devour each other in a similar way to raising insects, and the ones that are born in the end are the strongest.
Or maybe those who survived were good at swimming. Can't dogs swim? Those who were not good at swimming mostly drowned along the way.
Countless readers were inspired by this, and Fang Zheng broke out in a cold sweat...
The results on the first day could be said to be a great success, and were all within Fang Zhengyi's expectations.
On the second day, things went much more smoothly, with each candidate studying independently according to the subjects they had decided on the day before.
The class is mainly based on experiments, with occasional question-answering. Homework is assigned after class, and students exchange and learn from their majors. The homework is handed in the next day and graded by the teacher.
Fang Zhengyi even made a huge sign with the top 100 students written on it, and in the name of promoting learning progress, the rankings were displayed every day according to the teachers' scores.
Originally, these candidates had been studying since elementary school and had very good study habits. After the list was released, they could no longer hold back and started studying overtime.
No matter how good you are at studying, as long as you see the leaderboard, the sense of competition makes you instinctively want to be on it.
Even if you are a poor student who has never been on the list in school, you can get so excited that you wet your bed when you see Long Aotian in online novels competing for various awesome lists.
Even the worst online writers would want to give it a try when they see the website organizing a ranking event and drool over it.
Not to mention those candidates who emerged from the vast army, each of them is considered a favored child of heaven in their local area.
Besides, I had already failed the imperial examination this time. Now a bunch of failed candidates have gathered together, and I am still not on the list. How can I still have the face to do this?
For several days in a row, the group was immersed in a frenzy of learning atmosphere.
Everyone is gathering their strength...comrades-in-arms are already beginning to transform into competitors.
At midnight, the house was still brightly lit, people reading could be seen everywhere, and the sound of discussions could be heard everywhere.
“When the sun shines on the earth, does it form a curve or a straight line?”
"The sky is high and bright, the earth is vast, and the sunlight shines on the earth. It should be clear and detailed. It is either crooked or straight. How can it be crooked but not straight, and how can it be straight but not crooked? If we follow the principles of heaven, earth, and all things..."
"Brother Liu, there is a heavy object falling. If one moment is one second, its speed before landing is about three feet per second, and the height of the fall is ten feet, then find its motion when it lands..."
Fang Zhengyi and Li Yuanzhao were walking along, both with their hands behind their backs, looking around.
Li Yuanzhao whispered, "Old Fang, I think they have forgotten why they came here. It should be over in two days. I don't think they can cause any more trouble at this rate."
Fang Zhengyi was about to reply when he suddenly saw a sneaky figure shaking in the corner. His face immediately changed and he shouted angrily, "Don't masturbate next to the microscope! The teaching aids are all borrowed, how can you let others use them!"
Li Yuanzhao: “…”
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