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Education and “skills”. Merchants Artisans Farmers Shi 士 (literati). Building Staffing Funding Admission Curriculum Certification. Education as Institution Building. Founding of State Prefectural and County Schools. Prefecture 1044 Yiwu 1049 Dongyang 1049 Pujiang 1060?
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Education and “skills” • Merchants • Artisans • Farmers • Shi 士 (literati)
Building Staffing Funding Admission Curriculum Certification Education as Institution Building
Founding of State Prefectural and County Schools • Prefecture 1044 • Yiwu 1049 • Dongyang 1049 • Pujiang 1060? • Jinhua county 1072 • Lanxi 1102? • Wuyi 1102? • Yongkang 1105
Examination Content Three days of tests • Confucian Texts • Literary Composition • Treatises on Policy, History, and Scholarship
Personal transformation Social differentiation Community formation Education as Social Process
Quotas and ratios • Northern Song quota (prefectural passes): about 7 • Southern Song quota (prefectural passes): 14 • Prefectural pass/fail ratio in the late 12th century: 1/200
Recruitment Students
Numbers • In 1290 there were 216,228 registered households in Wuzhou-lu (=Jinhua Prefecture) • In 1350 a “Rat’s Tail Register” was created which listed households from wealthiest to poorest based on total land and the number of adult males. On this basis their service obligation was defined • The total number of those liable for service (役者) was 12,668 names (名), with 4300 names being moved down from liable to non-liable And 3460 names being moved up from non-liable to liable • Thus only 5 percent of the households were wealthy enough to be liable for service.
Instruction教化 Study學習 Teaching為師 Learning求學 “Education”and Agency
Private Academies 書院 • Appearing in Southern Song, continuing into the early 20th century, revivals today • Generally privately funded • Less test-based; do not offer certification • Responsive to new intellectual trends
4 categories of bibliography • Classics • Histories • Schools of Philosphy/Practice • Literary Collections
Three areas of theory and practice • Literary/cultural studies文學, • Affairs of government 政事, • Moral conduct 德行
Education as Teaching and LearningLü Zuqian as a teacher • School rules • Literary anthology ( Song wen jian宋文鑒) • Institutional history (Lidai zhidu ciangshuo歷代制度詳說) • Neo-Confucian primer (Jin si lu近思錄)