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Li Xuan personally awarded the titles of academicians to more than 80 of the top academies of sciences in the empire, which once again reflected the empire's emphasis on science and technology, allowing more students to study hard, and then get most of the coveted glory and wealth.

The book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the book has its own golden house.

This sentence is still applicable in the contemporary Tang Empire, and even more applicable than the previous dynasties to some extent.

As long as you are smart enough and diligent enough, then coming from a poor background will definitely not be an obstacle to your success, because Datang Empire has a series of scholarships, which are enough to allow you to complete your studies without a dime, and you can even receive living expenses to support your family. .

Once everything is accomplished, prosperity, wealth and rank are not a problem, and no matter how bad it is, you can live a decent life.

Not to mention the elite students who have received higher education at or above the junior college level. Even if they are preparatory students or technical secondary school students, even if they cannot continue to apply for university or junior college, this degree is enough to give them a bright future, because the current Datang Empire’s In the imperial examination system, the educational qualifications for students participating in the imperial examination have been lowered to preparatory courses or technical secondary schools.

Even the average middle school student is enough to get a decent job.

Reading is a very formal thing in the Tang Empire. Whether it is a child of a poor family or a child of the powerful, they all regard reading as the best way to change their lives. Even if the students are still young, they don’t know it, but their parents are sure will know.

Therefore, even families with very poor backgrounds will grit their teeth and send their children to primary school when they are seven or eight years old.

Because they all know that if their children are smart enough to perform well in the first year and the second year, then they don't have to worry about the subsequent study expenses and living expenses, and the government will cover it all.

Well, the premise is that the child is smart enough!

If they are only average, then they will study for a year or two at most, and then they will give up. After all, if they don't get the scholarship, the poor family can't afford their children to go to school.

Reading can change fate, which is very realistic in the Tang Dynasty, and it is even the only way for poor children to get ahead.

Other ways are basically not very reliable, and the chance is too great.

Under such a social background, the grass-roots education in Datang is actually very developed. According to the statistics of the Education Department of the Ministry of Rites, the enrollment rate of school-age boys in the local area has reached an astonishing percent. ninety.

It’s just that a considerable number of them are unable to complete the six-year primary education due to various restrictions, and will drop out one after another during the six-year primary school period.

In the end, only about 50% can graduate from primary school.

After reaching the middle school stage, there are basically fewer dropouts. Generally, three years of middle school education are completed, and the graduation rate is as high as 90%.

Because those who can go to middle school are either outstanding students who study for free, or children from families above the middle class, those who can't pass the test or can't afford to go to school are already eliminated at the stage of further education.

Not to mention until the preparatory stage, unless it is an extreme situation, otherwise there are very few students who drop out of school.

It is worth noting that the proportion of preparatory students entering college is still relatively high, reaching about 80%. Among those who go to college, about 30% read a four-year undergraduate degree, and 100% Seventy of them read three-year colleges and universities.

An 80% admission rate basically means that as long as you don't kill yourself, your chances of going to college are still very good.

The reason why there is such a high enrollment rate at the preparatory stage is not because the imperial universities are easy to apply for, but simply because in the education system of Datang, students are already selected at the middle school and preparatory stages.

Preparatory school, the name means 'preparatory undergraduate', exists purely for the purpose of cultivating college students, so the number of preparatory schools in Datang is actually very small, and it is basically formulated with reference to the existing number of university admissions .

However, there are few universities in Datang, so there are naturally few preparatory courses.

Therefore, in the current Datang Empire, for those students, the most important threshold in life is not to apply for university, but to apply for preparatory examination after graduating from middle school.

If you pass the test, you will be prosperous and rich, but if you don't pass the test, your life will be over...

The current education system in Datang has also led to a large number of primary schools in the Datang Empire.

In the early years, only the counties and towns set up primary schools. Now, basically some large villages will also set up government-run primary schools, and then the number is larger and more scattered, almost every village will have them, which are reformed from traditional private schools. private elementary school.

In fact, primary education in the Tang Empire was very popular.

And among them, private schools undertake at least 30% of the teaching tasks.

This situation occurs purely because of Chinese traditions.

Those landlords and gentry, regardless of whether it is for the future of the children of the same village and the same clan, or for their reputation, or for other things~www.wuxiaspot.com~ have been more devoted to education since ancient times.

After all, this thing doesn't actually cost much, and it can also gain a clear reputation.

Although the gentry class of the Tang Empire has turned to industry and commerce, they still maintain many traditions, such as living in the countryside, and at the same time, they like to do various good deeds in their hometown, build roads, build bridges and run schools.

Outside, they may be corrupt officials, profiteers, and even criminals that everyone hates, but in their hometowns, they usually pretend to be polite gentlemen, and donating money to gain fame is standard practice.

No matter what they thought in their hearts, the fact was that the squire class of the Tang Dynasty played a great role in promoting the construction of the rural areas of the empire.

This also directly promoted the development of basic education in Datang. Otherwise, relying on the government's desire to increase the enrollment rate of school-age boys nationwide to more than 90% in just over 20 years, Still unlikely.

However, Li Xuan is still not satisfied with the current high enrollment rate but also high dropout rate.

He believes that even a farmer, even a worker, must at least have the level of primary school education, at least read and write, basic arithmetic, and then have a basic understanding of the world, and can't be too ignorant.

In response to the current problem of the low dropout rate in primary school, Li Xuan is also preparing to solve it in the past two years.

How to deal with it?

In fact, it is very simple, just continue to reduce the tuition fee.

Nowadays, ordinary peasant families have to grit their teeth to support a child to go to primary school.

So what Li Xuan has to do is to turn this situation into a situation where ordinary peasant families can support their children to finish primary school without too much effort.

By reducing the burden on ordinary families for their children to study, it will naturally reduce the dropout rate.