Chapter 44: Unfortunate Seldon

The next day, after class, Schiller collected homework on time as usual, but today he found that all 32 homeworks in the class were neatly handed in, and judging from the thickness, they all seemed to have enough words.

He was a little surprised. Although he urged students to hand in homework in the past, there were always one or two people who didn't hand it in. Among the many people who handed it in, there were also many who just messed around, writing two pages casually with a bunch of blank papers in the middle, or simply copied some articles and handed them in.

But this time, he stood on the podium and flipped through it roughly, and found that everyone had actually written the paper seriously. Although some of them were not written well, and it was obvious that they had never written a paper before, at least they tried to stick to the topic. Although the wording was like that of a desperate illiterate, at least they tried not to go off topic.

When the students saw him flipping through the homework, they didn't dare to breathe. In the past, at this time, the class was about to end, and the students were packing up, but now no one moved. They all stayed in their seats honestly, waiting for Schiller to speak.

The reason for this situation is very simple. Just last night, the whole class knew that Schiller went directly to Falcone, the underground king of Gotham, to chase Evans for homework.

In the era without Batman, let's call this era the "pre-Batman era". In this era, the one with the most say in Gotham is Falcone and the twelve mafia families under his rule.

How powerful are these mafia families? Sal Maroni, the East District tyrant, is just a running dog of the Lauren family, and the Lauren family ranks last among the twelve mafia families.

The first one is the Falcone family, and the old godfather Falcone has the final say over the twelve families.

In this era, you may not know who the mayor of Gotham City is, or even who Bruce Wayne is, but you must know the surnames of Falconer and the other twelve mafia families, otherwise you can't survive in Gotham.

Since knowing that Schiller had chased the homework to the Godfather of Gotham, all the students' homework-making experience last night was quite thrilling.

Schiller was very happy, so he said: "The situation of this homework looks optimistic. It seems that everyone has finished it seriously. After I finish marking these homework, I will give everyone an extra ten points. For those who wrote better, if you don't have the intention to study for a master's degree, you can come to my office to talk about the recommendation letter..."

As a result, warm applause suddenly rang out in the classroom. I don't know whether it was for the reward Schiller said or for themselves who survived the disaster.

And all this was seen by the principal, Shedon.

Shedon is a person who is persistent in a nice way and stubborn in a bad way. He will find ways to deal with anyone he targets. Although Schiller's tough attitude prevents him from taking action immediately, he has been looking for opportunities.

The principal can mobilize the surveillance cameras in all classrooms of Gotham University and observe the teachers' lectures. This function has become the best way for Shedon to monitor Schiller.

In the next few days, in Schiller's class, all the students were as quiet as chickens. Evans took the initiative to take on the role of class monitor, collecting homework, handing in homework, and distributing homework every day, organizing classroom discipline, and the entire teaching situation was in order, and no one could find any faults.

This gave Shedon an illusion.

Originally, when he worked in the Academic Affairs Office of Princeton, most of the students were basically at this level. After coming to Gotham University, he was busy gaining his foothold and did not take the initiative to understand the level of the students. In his opinion, doing homework is the student's duty. Although Gotham University is not ranked as high as Princeton, it seems that the quality of the students is not much worse.

At least in Schiller's class.

Shedon only observed Schiller's class, and in Schiller's class, all the students were very quiet and completed their learning tasks very well, which made Schiller's teaching arrangements very smooth.

So Shedon had other ideas.

As we all know, the campus alcohol ban he promoted was stuck in a position that was neither up nor down.

Most of the people who are willing to follow this plan have handed over their alcohol, but those who are unwilling are die-hards. They would rather resist with guns than let the school interfere with their right to drink.

Students can resist with guns, but Seldon, the principal, cannot force students not to drink with a gun. He is not a native of Gotham and his thinking is still stuck in a civilized society, so this plan is stuck in a rather awkward position and cannot be implemented.

When they found that they did not drink the penalty wine, Seldon wanted to toast again.

Before taking up administrative work, Seldon was also a professor. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in modern literature and taught at the University of California and Metropolitan University.

Seldon felt that in order to control Gotham University, he must also get along with the students. Being welcomed by everyone like Harvey is also a good route.

Therefore, he wanted to teach a course himself.

As it happens, there is almost no literature department in Gotham University. There is only one teacher who teaches basic courses. Literature and philosophy majors have not recruited students for many years. After all, this damn place is really not a place for literature and philosophy.

Revitalize the literature department and take the lead in reviving the literature major. If he can recruit a group of students from the Faculty of Arts taught by himself, then he will have his own direct lineage in this school. This is what Shedon planned.

And it seems that Schiller's class is very comfortable and the teaching objectives are well implemented. In general, the sky is clear and the rain has stopped, and Shedon thinks he is good again.

Although he is a university professor, the process of teaching is not much different from teaching in elementary school. Shedon is like a cloud player watching videos. He feels relaxed watching Schiller's class on the other side of the monitor.

Schiller's teaching process is just to walk into the classroom, wait for the students to sit down, then take out the textbook and start teaching. There will be one or two discussion sessions in the middle. After the discussion, either Schiller asks questions or the group sends someone to speak. After the speech, Schiller makes a round of summary, and then talks about something else. When the get out of class is about to end, he collects homework. There will be a review session at the beginning of the next class.

This is how university classrooms were in the 20th century. There were no fancy slides. Most teachers read from the textbook. This is especially true for subjects such as psychology that require a lot of theoretical knowledge to be memorized. If you don't explain the book thoroughly, you can't expect to learn anything.

This process is indeed not difficult to watch in the classroom video. If the students cooperate, they can even end the teaching objectives ahead of time, and they can chat for a while when it is almost over.

After the students started to become particularly obedient, Schiller was willing to talk to them about the crazy murderers he had seen. Although Schiller could not remember many details due to amnesia, this legendary experience still made these young boys listen with relish. They found that this particularly strict professor did have his strengths.

When announcing the establishment of the School of Literature, Shedon fired the teacher of the basic literature course and started teaching himself.

Just like most cloud players of game videos, when watching the video, they feel that they can teach themselves and point and point wildly from the God's perspective, but when they really get into the game, they are basically killed and quit, delete the game and refund the money in one go.

Shedon is no exception.

After the class really started, he found that Schiller's class was completely an illusion. There was no obedient student here at all. The basic literature course and the basic psychology course are somewhat similar, that is, they need to recite a lot and write papers.

The first time the class handed in dozens of assignments, only two were handed in, and one of them was only half the words.

Seldon showed his tough politician style and denounced this behavior of not handing in assignments in class, so when the second time the assignments were handed in, none of them were handed in.

For example, some people are naturally interested in science courses such as mathematics and physics, but no Gotham University student would listen carefully to the tedious and boring courses such as basic literature.

Students did all kinds of things in class. Sleeping was already a good hobby. Some ate, chatted loudly, pressed the game controllers and even threw leaves in public.

No matter how Seldon shouted, no one paid attention to him. Even if he slammed the door and left in anger, the class would only become a chaotic self-study.

Seldon also didn't understand Gotham. If he did, he would know that the students were good enough, and the quality of people who could go to college in this city was really high enough.

In this city, there is no threat of students with guns, no physical bombing of the school, and no kidnapping of teachers and professors. The students of Gotham can be regarded as the model of civilization in this city.

But Seldon was almost mad at them.

In particular, many students knew that the damn prohibition was made by Seldon, so they began to protest in Seldon's class. Someone took a whole box of champagne, uncorked it in the front row, sprayed it at Seldon, and even organized a drinking party in the classroom.

Seldon shouted that he would deduct credits and expel them, but these people didn't care at all. Seldon expelled two students, and the remaining students became even crazier. As a result, on a dark night, Seldon was walking in the school and was hit on the head by two bottles thrown out of the bushes by someone unknown, and was admitted to the hospital.

He couldn't understand why the students who were as obedient as quails in Schiller's class became crazy extremists in his class.

Maybe he just didn't hear Schiller say a word: Here, the only people who can deal with criminals are criminals.