St. George Elementary.
This is the name of the school Wu Ming studied at.
When James paid the tuition fee for one year, he got a school badge, which was the voucher for entering and leaving the school, plus two sets of uniforms like the students outside, and a few textbooks.
Immediately, he was brought into a classroom.
"Students, this is your new classmate, Steven Sterling!"
The old woman from the academic affairs office with a rigid appearance and a little bit of coldness personally took him into the class, introduced herself in front of the whole class, and then assigned him a desk, and a series of procedures were completed.
Wu Ming looked around and saw that there were all little guys about seven or eight years old.
Because he was well developed, he looked as big as them, but he didn't look obtrusive.
"Welcome new students, now, let's open the fifth page of the textbook..."
On the podium, a young female teacher clapped her hands, and there was a sound of flipping books: "Today we are going to study mathematics. Arithmetic is a wonderful science. Everything has its own laws. Using mathematics With the power of planning, we can make the boiler boil, the machine roar, and bloom with unparalleled power... "
Wu Ming looked around. James left in a hurry after sending him to the classroom, while the students next to him were listening attentively and memorizing everything carefully.
Obviously, those who can be sent here to study are some high-achieving students who are not very well-to-do but gritted their teeth to support them. They are quite precocious and know that this opportunity is not easy.
And the school didn't have the slightest idea of paddling, and the curriculum was quite tight, explaining that knowledge is money and knowledge is power.
"Quick cramming education, as well as high-intensity courses... There are no bastards and paddlers here. After all, no one will waste money like this..."
Wu Ming recalled the scenes of entering the school, and couldn't help thinking of the feeling of assembly line production.
The whole school is full of the same sense of urgency as a factory, which seems to be a characteristic of the times. Under the process of great development, everything is evolving at an increasingly fast pace.
Obviously, those educated in this way should be quite good talents in the end.
"Elite education..."
He sighed in his heart, and found that what the teacher was teaching was only the simplest addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations, he couldn't help but lose interest, and opened another textbook.
These textbooks are freshly printed, with the fragrance of ink and detailed illustrations.
The primary school curriculum is relatively simple, only literature, arithmetic, geography, and history. Among them, literature is a simple word recognition course. After talking about it well, Wu Ming finally had an understanding of the world he lived in.
"It turns out... the country I live in is the Kingdom of Golden Oak, a former monarchy country, and after several reforms and coups, it has entered the road of constitutional monarchy..."
Wu Ming opened the history book, then opened the geography book, and turned to the page of the national map.
"The Bauhinia Federation, the Golden Oak Kingdom, and the Pandorn Empire are the three largest countries in the world. They have taken the lead in completing industrialization and entered the age of steam. Most of the other small countries are colonies and commodity dumping markets of these three countries. ...It's just that there are conflicts between the three countries, such as the last time the Bauhinia Federation declared war and confronted each other, and in the end, it was only through the mediation of the Pandorn Empire that peace was barely restored."
"The discovery of steam power is the greatest invention in modern times, which has profoundly changed the course of the world. From then on, human beings can conquer nature, the sky and the earth, and everything..."
At the end of the history book, there was such an extremely arrogant sentence, but after Wu Ming saw it, he fell into deep thought.
The development of this world is very interesting, especially in terms of steam engines and boilers, the efficiency and functions may have far exceeded the improvements of Watt in the previous life, thus pushing the whole world into a more vast and weird steampunk era.
"Steven!"
The female teacher on the podium adjusted her glasses, and finally noticed Wu Ming's small movements: "I can understand your mood on the first day of class, but please pay attention, it is arithmetic class now, don't read textbooks that are not related to the class!"
She said earnestly: "I know you must be a smart little guy if you are sent to school by your family, maybe a genius, but here, there are many geniuses!"
"Do you know how many people there are in the kingdom? 152 million! And how many schools are there in the whole country? Less than 100,000! This also includes those noble schools and girls' schools. Only our school district is open to the whole world. The Danube Corridor recruits students, do you know how many people there are in this area? How many geniuses are there? So, you are not special, if you want to become a decent person in the end, you can only work hard!"
After delivering some lessons, the female teacher was very satisfied to see little Steven put away the textbook in a compromise: "Now... Steven, you do this question!"
Wu Ming looked at a simple arithmetic problem on the blackboard, but was quite speechless.
He stepped forward, picked up the chalk, and scribbled out the answer, which made the female teacher startled.
"Huh? Steven, your arithmetic foundation is very good, have you learned it before? Let us applaud him!"
The female teacher took the lead in applauding, and there was a clacking sound in the classroom.
"If I can't even solve this kind of problem, wouldn't I be able to kill myself..."
With the teacher present, Wu Ming couldn't provoke him any more, so he could only stay honestly until the end of get out of class.
Being able to go to school means at least a little freedom in time and a little privacy, which is enough for him to do many things.
As for these courses... No matter how difficult it is for children, it is just a joke for Wu Ming.
"Hi! You are really good at arithmetic, did you see Teacher Linna's expression at that time, haha...!"
During my free time after school, a little guy with a mole on his face leaned over: "Let me introduce myself, my name is Vidi!"
"I'm Steven!"
Wu Ming tilted his head: "What happened to Teacher Lin Na?"
"Don't you think her lectures are annoying every time she comes in, especially that part!"
Vidi has a talent for comedy, and he repeated Teacher Lina's words like a parrot: "She is suppressing a genius... that Neville next to him was originally very smart and lively, but after being told by the teacher, he doesn't play with me now." I only know that it is buried in the textbook..."
'People are motivated, right? '
Wu Ming rolled his eyes in his heart, and looked at Vidi's attire.
Although they were all uniforms, the exquisite and shiny leather shoes still revealed his net worth. It was a fairly famous brand, and James seemed to have had such a pair once.
"How about we skip class together and go out to play?"
Viddy eagerly urged: "The woods behind the school are nice, it's a good place to hide and seek."
"Just the two of us?"
Wu Ming glanced around.
"They don't want to play with me!"
Viddy made a bitter face. In fact, he wanted to say that his plan to skip classes had never been successful, and every time he was suppressed in cold blood by those old women who were taught by the school.
The rest time after class was very short. After a bell rang from the horn, a young male teacher in a gray jacket walked into the classroom and opened the lesson plan: "Hi students, I am your history teacher. Today I want to tell you about …”
The courses in the whole school are almost all cramming. The teachers finish teaching things quickly and get the rewards they deserve. Most of them refuse to answer all questions except in class.
Every lesson is also followed by progress. If you miss it, you will miss it. You will never teach it again, and the real learning outcome depends on your self-consciousness.
In such courses, as long as you don't skip class, most teachers don't care about you.
And this also highlights the difference of Teacher Lina. This young female teacher seems to be very responsible, but there is a small problem with the way of teaching.
"In a perfect social system, if you want to climb to the top, besides getting rich overnight, the best way is to study..."
Through what he saw and heard in the school one day, combined with what he had inquired about before, Wu Ming immediately had an understanding of the educational operation mode here.
St. George Primary School is a five-year primary school. If you graduate successfully and pass the assessment, you can go directly to the middle school. After three years, those who come out can basically get a good job in society with their own knowledge. .
Of course, this is the worst way.
After completing the secondary school, most students can also choose to take the exam and participate in the recruitment exams held by various colleges.
Such as the Royal Police Academy, comprehensive universities, and military schools and so on.
To participate in the selection of these schools, a high school diploma is one of the necessary prerequisites. I heard that the elimination rate is very high, but once you succeed, you will be a decent person immediately after you come out.
You can be an inspector after you come out of the police academy, and you can be an officer directly after you come out of the military academy.
It's a pity that it is really not easy to successfully pass this kind of exam, not to mention that the admission rate of some noble schools is completely different from that of ordinary middle schools, and there are special recommended places.
"Do you want to hang around in school for more than ten years?"
Although the James couple definitely hoped that he would embark on such a path, for Wu Ming, it was quite a pain in the ass.
"Actually, many people drop out of school before finishing elementary school. Most of them can get good jobs when they graduate from middle school. After all, only a small number of people are really willing to work hard..."
Now I start school at the age of seven or eight, and I will be fifteen or sixteen years old after I graduated from middle school. I can be regarded as a young adult and an important labor force in the family.
Those who can really have spare money to provide higher education are, after all, a minority.
Wu Ming is clear about the plans of James and his wife, because the talent he has shown has the taste of cultivating himself in this area.