After Ada started researching sextants and nautical clocks, he often complained about the lack of assistants. Because research work cannot be done by one person.
Although, those hired Italian watchmakers can temporarily serve as Ada's assistant. However, these people can let them do precision machining, but it is difficult to express their own opinions. After all, artisans are better at craftsmanship than brains. And scientific research requires brainstorming. After all, no matter how good a person is, there will be negligence.
In fact, the professors of later generations, when doing research, basically use their own doctoral or master students. In other words, ordinary scientists need high-quality assistants.
However, there are very few educated people in East Frisia at present, so where is the condition to equip Da Vinci with highly educated assistants
After much deliberation, Marin finally decided to choose the clever and clever ones from those apprentice craftsmen to send to Da Vinci...
Before, after recruiting a large number of craftsmen, Marin selected a group of teenagers from the serf families under his own name to learn from those craftsmen. There are over a thousand of these boys in total. However, they belong to various industries. Some learn to make clocks, some learn to build ships, and some learn to make muskets and cannons...
Marin selected the 10 smartest apprentices from the young apprentices learning to make clocks and gave them to Ada as his assistants. At the same time, let Da Vinci teach these teenagers when he is free.
In fact, the background of these teenagers is very poor. Because they are just a little smarter than the average kid, but they never went to school. Because there were very few people who went to school in the Middle Ages, and they were generally either the children of nobles or the children of merchants. If the family has no money, they cannot afford to go to school.
Therefore, these smart young apprentices may learn things faster, but their cultural background is too bad, not as good as elementary school students. However, Marin has no good solution now, so he has to do this first.
After learning from the pain, Marin decided to build a school...
As an earl, Marin is qualified to establish a school. Of course, it needs to be co-organized with the church. Otherwise, if you do it yourself, it may cause dissatisfaction from the church.
However, the church in East Frisia is under the control of Marin. Therefore, the problem of running a school is not a big one.
As for running a university, Marin has never thought about it now. Because, in the whole of East Frisia, there are not many ordinary missionary schools, and there are not many elementary school students. Who will recruit to run a university
Therefore, Marin first plans to set up a number of primary and secondary schools, and first cultivate basic talents. Wait until this group of people has almost finished middle school, and then start a university.
However, there is another problem that bothers Marin, that is—Marin wants the children of serfs to receive education, but the children of serfs go to school, which is not in line with the rules...
Moreover, it is estimated that they are not happy to let a group of noble children go to school with the children of copper serfs from rich families. After all, medieval society was strictly hierarchical. Noble children would feel insulted if they were put together with commoner children, let alone go to school with serf children...
For this reason, Marin had a very headache. As a person of later generations, how could Marin not understand the simple truth that "the master is among the people"? The children of the nobles and the children of the rich and powerful were born rich, with a bright future. Therefore, they often do not study hard. And those serf children, if they are given the opportunity to learn culture, they will be extremely excited. Therefore, it is easier for them to study hard and learn more knowledge.
But the problem is that this era is an era of strict social hierarchy. Putting serf children and noble children together for education is tantamount to humiliating those noble children. Moreover, when they are together, not only the noble children feel dissatisfied, but also the serf children will feel very uncomfortable...
In the end, Marin thought for a long time and decided to run the school separately...
His plan was to open a noble school for the sons of nobles, soldiers and rich families...
Yes, Marin juxtaposed military children and noble children. Because he wants to seek hegemony in the future, Marin decided to give preferential treatment to military families so that people can volunteer to serve in the army willingly.
Therefore, Marin specially ordered that all children of active military families in East Frisia can go to school for free, and the treatment is equal to that of wealthy businessmen, slightly lower than that of noble children.
The school they attended was a noble school jointly run by Marin and the church. In school, students mainly study the Bible (in lieu of Chinese), mathematics, and basic military skills.
Like the compulsory education promoted by Frederick the Great, Marin actually regarded the noble schools as the cradle for training low-level officers. All students in the school must live in accommodation and implement closed education. Every day, the students of the noble school have to get up with Wen Hao and complete the assembly in the shortest time, and then they will run.
Then, the whole morning is spent studying the Bible and mathematics, and the afternoon is spent arranging basic military training or organizing sports activities. As for what sports activities to arrange? Do you still need to ask? Football of course!
Football can not only exercise students' physical fitness, but also exercise students' awareness and ability to cooperate with each other. Of course, as a sport for elementary school students, Marin absolutely forbids them to use dangerous actions such as tackles. Because, he didn't want his reserve officers to have their legs cut off.
After entering the middle school stage, Marin will add courses in law and management to the children of noble schools. At that time, those who are outstanding in their studies will be promoted to civil servants. Those with good military literacy are given priority in being promoted to officers.
Because they have received semi-military education since childhood, these children will easily adapt to military life when they grow up, and have good basic military capabilities.
At that time, to form a powerful modern army, these talents are needed to act as grassroots officers...
The biggest difference between the modern army and the ancient army is the difference in the quality of the grassroots commanders. In ancient times, grassroots commanders were all illiterate and had little military accomplishment, they only knew to follow the orders from above. If the main general dies in battle, these grassroots officers will lose their backbone and flee with the soldiers.
Just like the last battle in Lyle County, when I heard that the Duke of Saxony was shot and died, the Saxon infantry who came to attack immediately fled...
The modern army has a strict system. According to the modern military system, if the head of the regiment dies in battle, the deputy head of the regiment will take over the command. If the deputy head dies, let the first battalion commander take over, and if the first battalion commander dies, the second battalion commander will take over... In this order, there will never be a phenomenon of no leader.
Of course, this is because officers in modern armies are educated and disciplined. Even though many low-level officers in the PLA before liberation were uneducated, after entering the army, they all received literacy training. Moreover, the instructors must be educated people, and they would remind those uneducated officers not to make mistakes.
If the main general dies in battle, the modern army will generally continue to execute orders under the leadership of grassroots officers, or stand by and wait for orders from the new supreme commander, and will never disperse in a hurry. Even if it is a retreat, it can be retreated in an orderly manner under the command of well-educated grassroots officers without rout.
Marin naturally wanted to build such an army, but now the small captains under him are basically illiterate. Even the company captain is in urgent need. That's why Marin urgently needs wandering knights from educated knight families.
However, when Marin used these wandering knights, he also found that these wandering knights were too deeply influenced by traditional and old military thinking, and it was difficult to change. After all, that's the kind of education they've been given since childhood.
Therefore, it is relatively difficult to expect the adult wandering knights with formed thinking to adapt to the modern army. Many wandering knights still couldn't extricate themselves from the thinking of knights who put on plate armor and took the lead in charging. It is actually not appropriate to let them command the infantry. Only a few quick-minded people like Frundsberg can quickly adapt to Marin's modern military style.
And if those noble children are trained from an early age, when they grow up, they will be very suitable for the requirements of the modern army. In this way, Marin can pull up a team casually, and he can be invincible, just like Prussia and Germany later...