Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 233

[Chapter 31 The post-war Senate meeting (4)]

Everyone thought about it and shook their heads.

{щww{suimеng][lā}Athens may be the richest, but it cannot provide so many benefits to its citizens. As a city-state with a long history, too many vested interests, deep-rooted legal systems, and traditional ideas make it impossible. Do what the emerging city-state alliance Dionia did.

Although, it has been considered very caring for the civilians in the Greek city-states.

“Can Persia, a powerful country in the Mediterranean, do this?” Plessinas asked again loudly.

Everyone shook their heads directly: Persia, it was a dictatorial country where nobles squeezed civilians and Persians squeezed other races.

“Then Dionia is the Elysee paradise in the Greek city-state! I believe that after the Greeks know the rights enjoyed by our citizens, they will surely pour into Dionia more actively!” Plesinas affirmed said.

“Plessinas’ guess should be correct. Before the war with Crotone, the number of free people in the port of Turii had been growing… and after the war, we kept our promise and even allocated reserve citizens If we get the land, there will definitely be more immigrants pouring into Dionia. We have to make preparations to resettle them.” Kunogorata took over the conversation and warned everyone in advance.

When everyone heard it, they were both happy and a little worried.

“Now, please let me add one more right to Dionian citizenship,” Davos continued. “I noticed just now that people are hearing Kunogorata say ‘more immigrants will come to Dave’. Olia’, they all seemed a little worried. What were they worried about? I think it was more about the difficulty of maintaining a good city order by the Dionysian Alliance! Worrying about the influx of so many immigrants, and most of them were civilians, uneducated, After they all become citizens of Dionia, the overall quality of our citizens will decline! It will drop sharply!—”

“Lord Davos is right!” Elder Tuurii, Mathisakus, immediately stood up and loudly accused Said: “Now there are such signs in Turiyi, especially in the port, those new immigrants with various accents are rude and uneducated, and they swear, fight, and fight at every turn. I heard that the port patrol will deal with it in a day. Dozens of clashes. Is that so, Kuno Gorata?”

Kunogolata shook his head and corrected it seriously: “It’s not that serious. If the freedmen want to become Union citizens smoothly, they don’t dare to break the law. According to statistics, there are no more than five cases a day. It’s all resolved by itself.”

Mathisakus made fun of himself and muttered: “There are three or four conflicts a day, and there are quite a few…”

Polyxis looked at Mathisakus, his eyes flickering.

Davos laughed: “Because of these problems, my next proposal is – to establish a school in Turii, all Dionian citizens, after paying a small fee,

can make their Children go to school to learn literacy, numeracy, painting, music, sports…”

School?

!

Everyone pondered this new word.

At this time, the Athens Academy had not yet been established, and the way of education for the Greeks mainly depended on the wealthy nobles and rich people hiring private teachers, buying learned slaves to educate their children, or famous scholars running private schools and charging unpaid fees. It is unheard of for the Philippines to pay tuition fees and recruit disciples, while the city-state funded the construction of a school to collectively educate the children of citizens!

But the elders were very interested, and most felt that this would indeed help solve the problem of the low cultural quality of Dionysian citizens, so they rose up to ask questions.

Davos was all too familiar with the school. Combining his past life experience with the actual situation in this life, he answered their questions with ease.

For example, Amintas asked: “What if citizens also want to study in schools?”

Davos’s answer was: “In the school, a special class for adults is set up, and the curriculum and education methods are different from those of young children, which is convenient and quick to eliminate illiteracy. For

example, Kunogorata’s question: “How can children benefit and improve in school at different ages and with different levels of education?”

Davos’s answer was: “Establish three levels of education: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. Children who have never learned anything enter the elementary class and begin to learn to read, count, and read articles… For those who have read and written, they have a certain foundation in numeracy. Children who enter the intermediate class will learn how to use words to form sentences, write articles, and be able to perform complex calculations… The advanced class is mainly to master the rhetoric of words, speeches, arguments, and calculate a lot of complicated data… This is to train lawyers, accountants, The senior officials of the alliance, such as intermediate officials, are ready to prepare…”

… The

elders were satisfied with Davos’ detailed answer, and even Kunogolata, who rarely praised others in public, couldn’t help but marvel: “Master Consul, I am now I really think that you have been favored by the gods, otherwise it would be impossible to come up with so many wonderful ideas, and at the same time have a complete implementation plan!”

Kunogolata’s words were recognized by the elders.

Davos smiled and continued: “I propose that Ancitanos should be the head of this school.”

“Agree!” The elders agreed.

The most knowledgeable person in the Senate is undoubtedly Ancitanos, who was a disciple of Herodotus. Of course, some people think that Davos, who was rumored to be illiterate, but who was inspired by Hades and has always been mysterious, Knowledge is hard to estimate.

“Ah? I…” Ancitanos, who was sitting in the back row, was awakened, shook his head and refused: “I can’t, I don’t have time! The Athenian Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War ” has been completed, and it is said that it has been well received by the Athenians, and my “History of Greece” has not been written yet?!”

At the repeated requests of the elders, even Davos and everyone made a promise: All the elders will try their best to do it. To contribute materials to his creation, he will try his best to cooperate if he wants to interview someone…

Ancitanos reluctantly accepted, but he immediately began to complain: “My lords, it’s not that I didn’t want to manage the school just now, you want to Knowing that the Dionysian League is only the city of Turii, and there are thousands of children of the citizens of Dionia! And the consul, you just said that you want them to learn Greek writing, arithmetic, painting, and music. Wait, how many teachers does this need?! The Dionysian League can’t find so many teachers to teach the kids!”

After what he said, everyone immediately realized that this was indeed a problem.

But Davos had obviously thought about it for a long time, and he said calmly: “There are not enough teachers in the Dionysian Alliance, but other city-states have them. We urgently need pine leaves and herbs, and we can significantly reduce tariffs for it. In order to motivate the Cyrenaica merchants to transport it into the port of Turii in large quantities for sale. We lack teachers, so of course we can also formulate a favorable bill for them, so as to encourage outstanding scholars from foreign countries to actively come to Dionysian Ya…are you right?” The

elders thought thoughtfully, and Ancitanos asked anxiously, “What kind of bill?”

“My proposal is…that all Gentiles who come to Dionia to teach as teachers, Even slaves will immediately obtain Dionysian citizenship! But the premise is that they must first pass the examination of our special institution of the Senate to determine that they have the ability to serve as teachers… um… You can take the lead in this examination, Ancitanos Responsibility. But they have citizenship and become teachers in Union schools. They have to dedicate their lives to teaching children knowledge. If they change careers, their citizenship will be revoked immediately and they will be deported! Also, Union citizenship only applies to teachers. themselves, their children shall not inherit unless they also take up the profession of teachers…” The

crowd was moved by Davers’ proposal.

Ancitanos, who didn’t care about being the school administrator at first, said with excitement at the moment: “Since Plessinas and Lord Kunogorata thought that the Greeks envy the citizens of Dionia, they want to To become a citizen of Dionia, then I think the lack of teachers in Dionia will change soon! … I remember there was a coalition bill for doctors, and now for teachers Their proposal. Sirs, doctors and teachers are two sacred professions besides the priests of the gods, one to heal people’s bodies and the other to improve people’s minds. I thank the consul for your vision! I hope to get your support too! The Dionysian Senate has fully demonstrated respect for knowledge! It will make our alliance not only prosperous in trade, strong in military, but also brilliant in culture! The Dionysian Union will become a great City-State Alliance!!”

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The meeting continued until dusk, UU reading www.sonicmtl.

com and two others said there was a proposal to say, and the elders had to let the guards light candles and move on.

The first speaker to get up was Scomblas, who said apologetically: “I’m sorry for delaying everyone’s time to go home for dinner. I just consulted Lord Davers, Capps, and Hero in detail just now. Nimus and the others, I learned that there is a large swamp in the north of the city of Crimea. Especially in the spring, the rain floods, and the swamp expands outwards, affecting road traffic, and encroaching on farmland…I was thinking about us Can you invest a lot of labor to fill up the swamp and build a dyke for the Rakoeli River, which will not only ensure the security of the territory, prevent the occurrence of diseases, but also add a large fertile land! …”

“You The old man has just been elected as the chief executive of Crimea, and he has not yet taken office, and you will start to implement your management of Crimea!” Protesilaus joked with a smile.

“What? Do you have an opinion?!” Scamblas glared at Amendolara, the junior he had grown up with.