Zhang Shou returned to Beijing yesterday, and he was very successful. Today, he suddenly ignored his vacation and came to the Imperial College. The people in the Doctoral Hall were naturally nervous for a while. But when Zhang Shou came, he first met Zhou Jijiu and Luo Siye, and they had a pleasant conversation. The doctors and teaching assistants outside who were listening carefully heard Zhang Shou talk about the second enrollment of Jiuzhang Hall, and then they gradually felt relieved.
After Zhang Shou said goodbye and left, a doctor in his early thirties in the doctoral hall breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Anyway, if we have to make trouble, we will continue to make trouble with the Jiuzhang Hall, and it will not involve the Sixth Hall. As long as there is no Xie Wanquan again, that will be fine."
As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed that there was silence all around him. His heart skipped a beat and he realized that he had said the wrong thing and should not have mentioned that taboo name.
Sure enough, the next moment, he heard a faint voice: "Can you please stop mentioning that kid? He is now like a fish in water in the Daming Public School of Lu Shangshu... ahem, Lu Jijiu. Many poor boys have entered his school, and they are all proud to hold their heads high. Do you know what people say about him? An upright man who is willing to break with his teachers of low character and ruin his own future!"
"Dr. Zhang has been traveling for several months. As soon as he came back, he came to Jiuzhang Hall to check the students' homework without taking a rest. You all stay in the Imperial College all day long, but you don't care about your students. Instead, you gather here to gossip. Aren't you too idle?"
Luo Siye suddenly came out from the inner room and gave a reprimand, which once again suppressed the discussions outside. However, no one said a word about what Luo Siye said.
Nowadays, teachers hired by wealthy families, or private school teachers who teach a few students at home, do assign homework to students regularly, and then read it carefully, comment on it and give guidance.
However, when it comes to the level of academies, because there are so many students, most teachers will only select students they value and give them detailed instruction. Ordinary students may not even receive comments once a year.
As for the Imperial College… you can imagine that in its heyday, the highest institution of learning had 4,000 to 5,000 people or even more. From the chief priest and the dean, to the doctors, assistants, and schoolmasters in the Doctoral Hall, to the clerks in the lower halls, there were no more than 50 people in total! Of these 50 people, more than half were engaged in pure management work. The rest might not even be enough to teach, let alone correct homework
Moreover, after Emperor Gaozong's reform, the doctors appointed by Emperor Taizu became doctors of the Five Classics... Those doctors who had passed the imperial examinations usually only taught what they were good at, and counted the lectures. Who had the time to read the essays of the students one by one? It would take days and nights to finish reading them all!
Therefore, it is no surprise that the Imperial Academy was completely defeated by those academies in terms of cultivating talents. How can a big-pot academy with thousands of students or a large number of students who drop out just to get a reputation and then find a job compare with private academies with dozens of students taking the elite route and hundreds of students taking the broad route
This is why the Banshan Hall and Jiuzhang Hall have different personnel compositions and are almost semi-independent from the original Imperial College, so Zhang Shou can let go with the support of the emperor. Anyway, it will not shake the foundation of the six halls. Now that the Banshan Hall has a branch hall, the number of people has dropped sharply from the first hall to the third hall. The original large house has been given to the Ruxing Hall, and most people have nothing to say.