Chapter 180 Academy Opening
Most of the children who are willing to leave the Holy City to study in other places are from the middle and lower classes, that is, the children of the citizens. Their parents may be shop owners, freight merchants, or tailors in tailor shops.
The upper class, that is, the children of the priests and nobles, are rarely willing to go to Linyang to study. They prefer to let their children study in the academy that has been famous for thousands of years in the Holy City, rather than letting their children go to a town that has never been heard of and study in an unheard-of school.
Children from the citizens often stop at secondary education.
Without entering the church college, they cannot learn the monopolized knowledge of various runes and magic. They are not from the upper class or from a family with a legacy. They can inherit the complete spellcaster heritage or the rune craftsman heritage from their families without going to the church college.
These children have the desire to study, but they may not be able to pass the inspection of the church school. After passing the inspection with difficulty, the high tuition fees proposed by the church college are enough to discourage them.
The publicity of the engineering college allows them to see the possibility of continuing their studies.
Training of rune craftsmen, and subjects related to natural sciences.
The tuition is lower, which is a tuition that the citizens can afford with a grit of teeth, and the hundreds of children who have won places in the mathematics competition can get tuition waivers.
In this way, if you want to study in the Engineering College for one year, you only need to pay 30 gold, and if there is no discount, you need to pay 80 gold a year, and meals and textbooks are all included, without any additional charges. He will provide student loans for those who are willing to attend the school and have outstanding grades. The other party can also work part-time while studying and work part-time for the territory to earn money.
With the problem of student source and cost solved, the only thing they care about most is safety.
In this world, leaving their city and living in other cities for a long time may face life-threatening situations.
The dean first took out the guarantee letter written by the priests and bishops of the Church of Life for the territory to appease these students and make them believe that the territory is not dangerous.
The guarantee letter from a bishop was really effective. Many parents were still nagging about safety issues, but when they saw the guarantee letter from the bishop, they immediately stopped doubting the dean and the college.
After everything was done, he left Teran with the 153 children at ease. The mathematics competition brought him a good reputation.
There were a total of 97 people selected by the territory, all of whom were young people under the age of 25. And there were 153 children from Teran.
A total of 250 people, much more than he expected.
The dean initially expected that he would only need to take 200 students, which was in his plan. He could afford the education of so many students, and 250 people... exceeded the quota by a quarter.
Ji Lin proposed that if possible, try to mobilize these children to participate in the production of industrial products in the territory, and he would pay them according to normal employment. After all, letting these children studying in colleges and universities use their spare time to participate in work is an effective means to increase the output of processed products in the territory.
The dean looked at the group of children behind him who were dressed differently. There were a few who were dressed luxuriously, some who were dressed simply and with patches, and most of them were children of ordinary citizens who were dressed in cloth.
They all had a blank look on their faces about the future, and they showed some expectation for this beautiful-looking campus, which was completely different from the noble and solemn campus in the Holy City. They would spend the next year here.
Winter and summer vacations? Sorry, no, they only have weekends off. In order to let them learn knowledge and graduate as soon as possible and then put into production in the territory, Ji Lin had no plan to implement the winter and summer vacation model in the academy in the territory.
There was only one month of long rest time a year, and the entire school system was only two years. One reason was that it was necessary for production, and the other was that the territory did not have as many courses as modern universities to fill four years.
Strictly speaking, they could hardly last a year.
Currently, only courses related to mathematics, physics, engineering, and runes were offered, and five days, one subject a day was not enough.
Because there were fewer subjects, there was more free time every day, but since there was free time, it was better to help the territory do some work and earn some money to supplement the family expenses.
The dean pushed his half-frame glasses, which made him look more scholarly.
But no matter what, they were the first batch of students in the territory.
"Welcome to Linyang."
He opened his hands, made a gesture to hug them, and turned to open the gate of the academy for them.
The students hesitated for a moment, then stepped in. The modified steam spider at the end of the team stepped on its six legs, slowly carrying a lot of luggage to the school gate step by step, and put it down. Its legs would cause serious damage to the ground, and it was not allowed to enter the academy. The militiamen carried the luggage of these students in.
They looked at the well-maintained environment inside the Engineering College and had a vision of the college life in the next two years. They felt very surprised that the steam spider helped them carry their luggage all the way.
The students' houses had been allocated before they arrived. The houses currently used by the people in the territory were 100 square meters each, with two 30-square-meter bedrooms and a 40-square-meter small hall reserved by wooden partitions.
In this way, everyone can get their own private space, and one house can accommodate 20 people.
Bishop Tallis, who had changed into bishop's robe, was talking with the lord beside the tall tree planted in the center of the college. After all, the bishop was an honorary professor. He was invited to participate in the opening of the engineering college. Ji Lin was the lord. Now the extremely important engineering college of the territory was officially put into operation. The next few decades of scientific research depended on this college. He had to come no matter what.
The ribbon-cutting and opening ceremony were simple and took less than ten minutes.
First, Ji Lin said a few nice words as a lord, wishing them good luck in their studies. This was from the heart. Then the bishop and the dean spoke together, expressing their expectations for the future of these children. The students from Teran were naturally very excited to see the bishop present. The bishop was a big man that they rarely met.
The young students from the territory focused more on the dean. They didn't know and didn't care what the bishop meant. But this dean who could be seen occasionally but always appeared and disappeared was someone they could see often. It was only at this time that they knew that this college was run by the dean Xu Shan.
They haven't noticed until now that there are only two teachers in the entire academy...and the bishop hasn't noticed it either.
If the courses are not enough, Ji Lin will pull Chang Heng, Chong Shan and Wu Bai to teach them military, agricultural and physical education classes. This should be enough.
If it's not enough, Ji Lin has no choice. He really can't hold people back. At worst, he can pull Miss Elf and the priest of the Goddess of Life to teach together!
However, these students are excited and excited, and they probably won't notice the lack of functions of this academy in the short term.
After the ribbon-cutting and opening ceremony, the territory will naturally entertain these students with rich products. Apart from anything else, they have the sea at their backs, so at least there is enough seafood. These seafood do not need too much processing, and they are enough to make these children who live in inland cities and rarely taste seafood feel novel and satisfied.
As for the seasoning, he spent money to buy a batch of more comprehensive seasonings from the market to match the seafood to entertain these students who come to the Engineering College.
If you are tired of seafood, there are also seabirds and beast meat from hunting, and tender kelp collected.
Ji Lin watched the dean and the bishop surrounded by a group of students, discussing and talking about the future. He felt happy from the bottom of his heart and shook his head with a smile.
They would adapt to the life in the territory for a few days and then devote themselves to their studies.
The work of the Engineering College has come to an end for the time being, and they will start to solve the problem of water conservancy projects.
Ji Lin has many tasks to give himself.