Chapter 23 Education must start from the baby

After Han Cheng and Wu confirmed the matter, they called the eldest brother who was the leader of the tribe, and the three discussed and formulated a plan together.

The elder brother is also very curious about the language and characters of God, but he is far less enthusiastic than Wu.

After all, his main duty is not to pass on the writing, but to lead the clansman in fishing and hunting, and find enough food for the clansman.

After Han Cheng expressed the meaning of the phrase education should start with children through the language of the tribe and gestures, these minors in the tribe suffered.

In the past, they didn't have much to do, especially in winter, they would eat and play when they were full, sleep when they were tired from playing, play again when they woke up, and wait for food when they were hungry.

But now it is impossible, because they need to learn the language and characters of God from the Son of God!

There are quite a few minors in the tribe, as many as thirty-five! This number almost catches up with the perennial people in the tribe.

There are only forty adults in the tribe including the witch and the two old men who are in charge of looking after the flames.

This did not include Han Cheng.

Because he has the mind of an adult but the body of a minor, he really doesn't know which type of person he should attribute himself to.

Among the thirty-five people, except for those who are still breastfeeding, those who can walk two steps when they stumble, those who are babbling, and those who are still in a state of ignorance, the real school-age children are actually only eighteen people. , including three who are close to adulthood.

Han Cheng hadn't carefully counted the number of people in the tribe before. After this count, Han Cheng couldn't help being a little startled.

He discovered a very serious problem, that is, the number of minors in the tribe showed a decreasing trend with age.

Although there will be occasional fluctuations, the overall trend remains unchanged.

For example, now, there are roughly seventeen children between the ages of zero and five, but there are only eighteen children between the ages of five and thirteen or fourteen.

When he first discovered this phenomenon, he was a little silent, and then he realized that it is not a later generation with no worries about food and clothing, and advanced medical and sanitary conditions, but the primitive era, where the mortality rate of newborn babies is high, so there is such a phenomenon. things happen.

Han Cheng put aside this complicated mood and began to concentrate on teaching Mandarin and Chinese characters.

After all, he is not the real Son of God, he is just an ordinary person in the later generations, and when he came here, he didn't cheat.

There are many things, even if he wants to do something, he still has no way to start. He can only start with some aspects and things within his ability, and slowly change the tribe, and create a good life for himself and the tribe as much as possible. condition.

There are 18 minors studying Chinese characters and Mandarin with Han Cheng.

Well, you read that right, that is, all the school-age children in the cave were wiped out.

Han Cheng's education for them, like witches, started with the 'gloves' and 'socks' they were already familiar with.

Then there are body parts such as 'mouth', 'nose', 'teeth' and 'feet'.

The tools for writing in the cave are limited, which is a problem.

After all, before this, writing was only Wu's business, and the rest of them hadn't thought about it at all.

It would be unrealistic to get each of these children a large stone slab and ask them to carve on it with suitable stones like Wu did.

Because it is winter now, it is too impractical to go out to find stone slabs in the snow and ice.

Moreover, they are learning characters now, unlike witches, who want to record some knowledge on stone tablets and pass them on to future generations, so using stone tablets seems a bit overkill.

Of course, another important reason is that writing on the slate can only be written once, it is not easy to erase, and it is not conducive to repeated use.

This is not difficult for Han Cheng, because after years of burning in the cave, a thick layer of powdery firewood ash has accumulated.

He asked people to circle eighteen one-foot-square boxes with stones on a place he opened as a classroom, and then put powdered firewood ash in the boxes, and first used branches used as pens Smooth it out and you can write on it.

After finishing writing, you only need to wipe the pen horizontally on it, and after it is smooth, you can continue writing.

Of course, such a writing tool also has disadvantages, that is, once someone sneezes on it, there will be a burst of ashes immediately.

In fact, Han Cheng wanted to make a sand table at first, but now it is winter, the sand is frozen and hard to get, so he had to use this 'grass ash plate' to temporarily replace it.

Fortunately, now is the primitive era, and having a writing tool is already very good, who cares so much?

If you don't believe me, look at Wu. After using the 'grass ash tray' that Han Cheng got out of himself, he immediately realized its beauty. He asked someone to get another one in the inner cave where he lived, and took it with him if he had nothing to do. Branches write and draw on it.

After all, he has used a whole large stone slab to learn the words of God with Han Cheng in the past few days!

Wang Qing's writing tool is not a grass ash tray. This is not because he deliberately made it special, but because the straw ash tray can only be placed on the ground. If everyone wants to see the writing, they have to gather around and stretch their heads to look at it, which is really inconvenient.

He wrote on a stone slab erected in front of everyone. Instead of engraving it with a stone pen, he selected charcoal that had not been completely burned from the ashes and wrote on it.

Although every time I finish writing, I have to use snow to wash my hands, but it is better to clean the handwriting, and it is more convenient to wipe the slate with snow and animal skins, and then reuse it.

Children in the tribe need to recognize, write, and learn the language of God, and Han Cheng did not let go of other adults in the tribe.

However, considering that they need to work, they don't have much time to spend on studying, and their plasticity is not as strong as these children, so Han Cheng didn't force them to be able to write.

Writing can be done according to one's personal interests, but learning to speak Mandarin is something that everyone should learn, and there should be no discount!

Well, everyone must speak Mandarin.

Because this matter was jointly decided by Wu, Han Cheng and the elder brother who is the leader, although many people find it troublesome, they dare not disobey.

Especially after hearing that this language is still the word of God, the feeling of resistance becomes even smaller.

As for Han Cheng, after breaking the ice to get fish to rescue the tribe in distress, making socks and gloves to save people from the cold, especially after being crowned a son of god by the witch, none of the people in the tribe dare to underestimate him.

So in the process of coaching, nothing like contradicting the teacher happened.

As for the lazy children who don't study hard, Han Cheng has a lot of solutions. Just asking them to write the words they have taught but can't write a hundred times is enough to get rid of everyone's desertion.

Of course, Han Cheng has not yet taught them to count to one hundred, but Han Cheng has a way. He found a hundred small bones from the cave and put them in a pile. Every time he wrote a word, he would take one of the bones back from the ground. on the hide.

As for cheating, Han Cheng, who had been educated for more than ten years, could not think of a way to deal with it. When he was punished for writing, someone was watching him.

Those who know but do not report need to write to the cheater, and once cheated, turn up a hundred words...