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Chapter 112 - School

 

"I thought there would be a new priest coming, but the new church is going to be run by the sisters, isn't it?"

"Yes. I became a bishop recently, too. I'm glad to hear that a new church is being built."

"I'm glad to hear that a new church is being built. The church and the orphanage will be built in such a way that people can easily come and go, is that correct?"

"Yes, because there are not many orphans here in Barca, and I will be running the orphanage by myself for the time being."

"If that's the case, I'll connect them with a kind of covered walkway. Please look forward to its completion."

"God bless you, Ars-sama."

　It was decided to build a new church in Barcania.

　The church was to be built by the sisters who had originally run the church in Barca village with Bishop Paul.

　Since the style of the church had been decided, we decided to build an orphanage to go along with the church.

　The location was the southeast area within the outer walls of Barcania.

　In the center of the south district, there is a main street and a free market, and the surrounding area is a residential area.

　Since it is a little far from there, we will take some space to build a church and an orphanage.

　While directing the construction work, I also decided to build a new facility.

　It was a school and a vocational training center1Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational education is sometimes referred to as career and technical education..

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　Originally, the village of Barca and its neighboring villages had only poor farmers and basically no one who could even write properly.

　It was in such a land that I, a peasant by birth, was assigned to rule and manage these two villages as the Barca Knight's Domain.

　However, it was impossible for me to manage them properly by myself.

　That's why I hired an old peddler as a treasurer, left the training of the peasants to my brother and Vargas, and assigned the rest to do their jobs while I looked after the rest.

　However, this was quite tough.

　Since they couldn't write properly, I had to see them at work and receive verbal reports directly from them in order to verify their work.

　However, we had even created a new type of botanical paper.

　I don't mind receiving verbal reports, but I would like each of them to keep at least a simple record.

　It's only natural to think so.

　That's why I told each of them to learn how to write.

　To tell you the truth, I had been thinking lightly about learning these scripts.

　After all, there is a magic called [Memory Preservation].

　If I write down the letters I want them to remember and have them use the magic to remember them, they will definitely remember them.

　I thought that even if it took some time to learn, everyone would be able to use and read letters.

　However, I have to say that this idea was a bit naïve.

　The reason is that [Memory Preservation] is a magic that allows you to remember exactly what you were looking at at the time, just like a photograph, but it does not make you smarter.

　They remembered what they were taught, but whether or not they could put it to use was a different story.

　Even if they could remember and write the words properly, it did not mean that they could write legible sentences.

　The report that I asked them to write was quite difficult to read, although they tried to convey the meaning by listing some of the words they had memorized.

　In short, they could memorize words, but they could not understand the rules of grammar and write sentences that were easy to understand.

　This also means that even if one memorized numbers, one could not calculate them.

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　To be honest, it was not enough.

　After all, I wanted people with more decent academic skills.

　That's why we built the school.

"That's why I've decided to build a school, so I'm counting on you, Kyle."

"What, I'm supposed to do it?"

"Yeah, I'm counting on you."

"What are you talking about? I'm just a kid. I'm the one who needs to be taught."

"No, there are things that only you can teach them. Come on, Kyle."

　I decided to send my brother, Kyle, to this school.

　But I'm not going to leave everything to Kyle, who is younger than me.

　I'm going to ask old folks in the village who know a lot of things to teach the kids.

　The school that we built near the church and orphanage was going to open before noon.

　The school was designed to be a place where people could come to study and eat lunch for free.

　The classes were held before lunch, and after studying and eating, the school would disperse.

　Basically, the old folks tell old stories and teach what used to happen.

　Among them were merchants who would serve as temporary instructors to teach students writing and math.

　And among them was Kyle's class.

　However, what Kyle taught was not writing, history, geography, or calculation.

　It was the use of magic that I had once taught him.

Baito-nii used it to strengthen his body, and even though he was still a child, he was able to gain the strength to be active on the battlefield.

　However, there is another use for magic.

　That is to make you smarter.

　Instead of allocating mana to muscle power like my nii-san, Kyle concentrates it on his brain.

　If you do this, your concentration, judgment, and memory will improve dramatically.

　I once taught this magic manipulation to Kyle.

　As a result of this, Kyle learned many things from an early age and became quite intelligent.

　As a matter of fact, Kyle also helped me with a lot of the administrative work of the Barca Knight's Domain.

　If Kyle, who was still a child, could do so much, there was no reason why other children couldn't do the same.

　I decided to teach the inhabitants of Barca through Kyle, not how to study, but how to improve their minds.

　In this way, the method of mana training began to spread in Barca.

CadmarLegend Oooh, more educational stuff. Also, if you're wondering where my TLN's have gone, they're still there. Just in footnotes. What is a footnote, you ask? Look at the next sentence. Footnotes can't be included in these little notes.

 

This is a footnote2Oi, I'm a footnote. .

 

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