Chapter 2779: Academic System Arrangements, Contingency Arrangements

The school currently under construction in Linshui Village—Linshui Town will serve as a junior high school in the future, but once completed, it will enroll enlightenment Apprentices, which is to say, primary school.

Xia Duo does not intend to set up any kindergartens; the school system will start from primary school, accepting age-appropriate children under 16 to receive various forms of enlightenment, including arithmetic, physical education, geography, magic, and so on, to shape a preliminary worldview.

After that comes junior high school; only from this stage do students begin to systematically receive magic education. Besides magic, there will be other courses, but the hard requirement for graduation is passing the Primary Job Rank Assessment.

Only after that comes high school. At this step, general education is still implemented, but graduation requires passing the Advanced Assessment. If one can advance to an Arcanist during the high school stage, they go to university; those who cannot will transfer to a Specialized College.

Currently, the interior of the Tower of Time has just rolled out high school courses, and even the Teachers have only just passed the Intermediate Assessment. To build a university, it will still take quite some time!

However, one can also refer to the history on Earth and build the university first. After all, three phases of the Inheritance Ritual have already been selected; these people certainly don't just finish receiving the Inheritance Ritual and go to work—they also have the right to continue receiving education.

This portion, including the Quasi-High Mages produced by the subsequent several phases of the Inheritance Ritual, can all be counted as potential university students. Organizing regular teaching for them would be a preliminary prototype of a university.

As for the research institutes after the university, the Tower of Time is actually ahead in this regard.

Whether it is the Independent Research Labs established by members of the Tower of Time themselves, or the multiple research projects Xia Duo has rolled out, or even the Plane Exploration Center, the Moon Exploration Project, and the Magic Glue Research Center established one after another, all can be regarded as research institutions capable of undertaking teaching and research functions—that is, research institutes, or units similar to graduate student stations on Earth.

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On the Court Square, Xia Duo spoke to Laidun about his specifications for the Territory's education while facing the school under construction to the south, and subsequently gave focused instructions:

"Before the Melting Snow Month, you must complete the enrollment and admission work for the Village Primary School, and in this process, pay attention to discovering capable teaching and management personnel to absorb them into the Territory Culture and Education Department."

"Yes, I will keep a close eye on this."

"By the way, do you have any suggestions regarding the primary school teaching staff?" Xia Duo asked again.

"If primary school is just for enlightenment, we can first recruit from the Territory. Although they might not compare to the Mages of the Tower of Time, at least in aspects like literacy, reading, and understanding the law, there shouldn't be any problems."

"Is that so?"

Xia Duo understood what Laidun meant; it was roughly to teach these children first by referring to the Territory resident assessment standards, and if there are new contents to teach in the future, they can be arranged slowly.

This is a very pragmatic approach: build the framework of the school first, and then slowly fill in the teaching staff and teaching content.

Although it is still a distance from Xia Duo's expectations, the conditions of the Territory are just like this, and recruiting people from the outside is not necessarily better than using our own people.

Moreover, who says adults cannot continue to learn? As long as they are willing to devote themselves to the teaching profession, adults have clear thinking and definite goals, and they actually learn some basic knowledge faster than children.

"Didn't the Tower of Time and the Territory Culture and Education Department co-compile the 'Enlightenment Book'? Just use the 'Enlightenment Book' as the primary school textbook, as long as the parts involving spell details are removed."

The "Enlightenment Book" is not only a magic enlightenment textbook but also contains many other fields; it can be called a simplified encyclopedia, and it is quite competent as a primary school textbook.

Many people in the Territory used the "Enlightenment Book" when they were learning to read, just without the magic parts. But because the preparatory resident regularization assessment mainly tests laws and local common sense, most people studied the legal code.

Only those who learn fast enough or are already official residents have the leisure to look at the "Enlightenment Book." After all, everyone has curiosity, and in terms of attracting people, the "Enlightenment Book" is no less inferior to the Legendary stories in the tavern.

"I won't interfere too much in specific affairs; I will come to see the results during the Snow Melting Recruitment."

"Please rest assured, Lord Territory Owner, Laidun will not let you down."

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Afterwards, Xia Duo followed the usual practice and took a trip to the Industrial Zone in the east, focusing on visiting the Magic Glue Product Factory and watching the production process of bicycle tires and Magic Rubber Shoes.

Because it is a brand-new industry, and he had not been exposed to related industries in his hometown, he could only offer some suggestions from the perspective of experience, letting the residents exert their own intelligence and wisdom instead of giving reckless commands.

After leaving the Territory, Xia Duo returned to the Tower of Time to continue his previous research on Order Spells; this is the most promising approach he can see at present to solve the crisis of the Main Plane.

A brand-new spell completely different from the traditional magic system of the Main Plane might produce miraculous effects. At least from his current level of magic attainment, it is very difficult to solve the Demon Descendant or Dragon Madness Mythallar crisis through the traditional magic system of the Main Plane.

The Demon Descendant is fine; at least the dawn has been seen. As long as the time-related magic research goes smoothly, even if the Demon Descendant cannot be completely cleared, at least it will be difficult to have a crisis where the Time Line is overturned again.

As for what else the Demon Descendant will stir up after this conspiracy goes bankrupt, that is not something he can predict.

And for the Dragon Madness Mythallar, the ancient Elf who sealed himself in Feres Fortress previously mentioned that it would take hundreds of High Mages to have a chance to fully repair it; this point is definitely not feasible.

All the High Mages of the Main Plane combined might not even reach that number, and the time window for repair is very short, only a mere thirty years. If the various Elf nations start popularizing magic and cultivating High Mages immediately, it might not even be in time.

Therefore, Xia Duo has always placed his hope on the Netheril Magic System, which is easier to master quickly, and he has still not given up on this hope now.

It is just that there is now a brand-new power system, the Order Spell, which can serve as a backup response measure; one can never have too many such measures.

Besides this, there is Plane Exploration. If all the above are active responses within the Main Plane, then discovering a new Habitable Plane is seeking a way out.

In case all response measures fail and the Main Plane eventually heads toward destruction, if there can be a Habitable Plane of a decent size, then one can migrate there.

Of course, if no Habitable Plane is discovered and all response measures fail, Xia Duo can also try to wander in the Yi Tai Jian Ceng Liu.

And this also requires research on the Plane Domain. A Semi-plane can exist in the Yi Tai Jian Ceng Liu, but moving is very dependent on large-volume Planes nearby.

The so-called movement is actually closer to the science fiction concept on Earth—gravity flight, which can only move near star systems (large Planes).

To move across stars, that would require other methods.