Chapter 638: Flexible Teaching, The Forefront of the Era

With the small interlude of the Projection Plane, Xia Duo was no longer in a hurry to return to Linshui Village; he thought of how he had previously arranged for Dewan to attempt to become an Astral Mage, and he wondered how Dewan's progress had been lately.

He asked the Tower Spirit about Dewan's location, but the result surprised Xia Duo somewhat: Dewan was neither at the Plane Exploration Layer practicing Astral Mage-related exercises, nor was he helping out at the Tilake Research Lab.

He had run off to the Public Level to do who knows what!

After a moment's thought, Xia Duo ultimately did not have the Tower Spirit project an image of Dewan's location, but instead had the Tower Spirit pass a message to him, telling him to come to the workshop where he was currently located.

Since both were on the Public Level, it wouldn't take much effort.

Before long, Dewan arrived, but the moment they met, before Xia Duo could speak, Dewan performed with an exaggerated expression, "Xia Duo, I've finally seen you!"

"What's wrong? Can't members of the Progress Society contact me through the Tower Spirit? If you have something to say, just contact me directly!" Xia Duo was somewhat puzzled.

"Uh—"

Dewan paused for a moment, then said, "I didn't know if you were busy, I was afraid of disturbing you."

"Let it slide this time; in the future, if you have something to say, just say it. Even if I'm busy, I wouldn't be so busy that I don't have time to listen to you say a few words."

Although he said that, Xia Duo knew that just like subordinates on Earth knowing their leader's phone number, unless it was truly urgent, who would call for no reason!

This rule of interpersonal interaction applied even in the world of magic. Seeing Dewan's perfunctory expression of understanding, he knew he probably wouldn't contact him next time, so he asked:

"Tell me, what exactly is the matter that made you so eager to see me? Besides, shouldn't you be at the Plane Exploration Layer conducting Astral Perception training at this time?"

"It's because of the same thing!"

After saying this, Dewan poured out all the trouble he had been having lately, "Didn't the Tower of Time recruit a large batch of New Apprentices last month? Many members of the Progress Society took on teaching tasks, but because there were really too many people, we couldn't keep up, and I would occasionally go to help. But a few days ago, another batch of New Apprentices arrived, and I've been teaching apprentices ever since."

"This—"

Xia Duo thought of how, after the elves from the Yueshilan Family arrived at Savile Town a few days ago, he had returned to Linshui Village and brought all the residents in the territory around sixteen years old into the Tower of Time.

At the time, he thought that adding two or three hundred people would be easily managed by the newly established Apprentice Management Office, but now it seemed he had been a bit too optimistic.

In Xia Duo's plan, there was another batch of new residents this month, and when the time came, he would again pick out those around sixteen years old and let them go to the Tower of Time to study.

The society in Savile Territory was mostly stable and balanced, making it temporarily impossible to conduct large-scale education for those detached from production, but Daxia Territory was a Pioneer Territory to begin with, and everything was newly created, so naturally, Xia Duo could do whatever he wanted.

Regarding Dewan's problem, Xia Duo didn't have a good solution for the moment, unless he was willing to increase the number of students per teacher. But education, setting aside the long-term vision, isn't the most basic part of it answering questions and resolving doubts?

If there are too many people, the teacher will be overwhelmed, which will easily affect the quality of teaching.

This is somewhat similar to the "small class system" and "large class system" on Earth. Before magic education is perfected to a certain degree, the Tower of Time still mostly adopts "small class" teaching.

Each teacher is only responsible for about 20 people.

If it were Level 1 Apprentices who haven't completed their enlightenment, large class teaching could still be used, but for Level 2 Apprentices who have already completed enlightenment and are undergoing professional magic study, the effect of large class teaching is somewhat unsatisfactory.

Of course, even if it is poor, it is still sky-high compared to previous apprentice education.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo felt that insisting on small class teaching was a bit unrealistic. Of course, if he just let a large class run wild, he wouldn't be satisfied either, so he would compromise!

"Let's use flexible teaching!"

"What is flexible teaching?" Dewan asked.

"Flexible teaching means that each teacher accepts as many apprentices as possible according to their own ability. The more apprentices they teach, the higher their personal performance will be. Of course, the premise of all this is that the apprentice promotion rate must be above the standard."

"..."

Dewan suddenly felt he couldn't speak, but Xia Duo's words hadn't ended—

"Teachers will have a ranking for their performance each month, each quarter, and each year. Those who rank higher will receive extra rewards, including but not limited to Gold Coins, Knowledge, and Magic Items."

Previously, every teacher in the Apprentice Management Office had performance requirements, but it was mostly about completing tasks. If a competitive mechanism were introduced, he imagined it would improve their efficiency in all aspects.

Looking at Dewan's slightly twisted expression, Xia Duo felt a strange sense of sadness in his heart; he had become the person he once hated the most. But thinking about the various twisted methods on Earth, his was still quite humane!

At least there were no punishments, no elimination of the bottom-ranked!

It was pure Positive Energy to motivate progress!

Striving for the rise of magic civilization was the greatest kindness Xia Duo gave to all apprentices and all teachers in the Tower of Time. Changing one's destiny, that is likely where it begins from this moment!

After chatting with Dewan for a while, Xia Duo issued the brand-new teaching system to all teachers in the Apprentice Management Office through the Tower Spirit. Just at this moment, the Tower Spirit delivered a piece of monthly information from the Arcane Union to him.

It came a little earlier than usual, but after he understood the general content of the monthly publication, Xia Duo almost blurted out that very famous ancient poem—

It really is "When the time comes, heaven and earth exert their strength together"!

This monthly publication could only be considered a supplement, which mentioned that the Arcane Union had already passed the proposal put forward by Giles Tower regarding the promotion of 【Magic Net Background Communication】.

It also mentioned that each Mage Tower would receive the relevant Principles and details of 【Magic Net Background Communication】 at the end of the month. This was equivalent to a mandatory patent authorization; of course, the fees were also mandatory.

However, what Xia Duo saw was that after 【Magic Net Background Communication】 became popularized, communication between Spellcasters would become more frequent, which was conducive to the birth of new theories and new Spells.

Moreover, the Arcane Union hadn't seen a new Spell Patent for a long time. This time, if anyone was jealous of Giles Tower's patent income, perhaps it could usher in another wave of Spell opening.

Under these circumstances, communication, openness, and progress would become the mainstream, and it was not impossible to reverse the conservative environment of Netheril in one fell swoop.

Of course, specifically in practice, the appearance of 【Magic Net Background Communication】 meant—Xia Duo's Communication Magic Tool could finally be sold!

Considering low-cost, high-efficiency production and manufacturing, as well as the continuous updates and replacements that would follow, it urged the Tower of Time to quickly produce a batch of qualified industrial workers.

Other Mage Towers wanting to compete would naturally have to keep up in terms of technology, craftsmanship, and even the number of production personnel, which would create a linkage with the wave of Spell Patents.

And in reality, it wasn't just Communication Magic Tools, there were other Magic Items (more convenient communication promotes commercial development). When the benefits reach a certain level, it might really be able to reverse the conservative environment of Netheril.

In the future, driving a Floating City to promote products is not impossible.

Vaguely, Xia Duo had a feeling of standing at the forefront of the era, but before he could carefully savor this feeling, Niya's "call" interrupted his reverie—

"Come to the Study."