Let's Go to Elementary School Together

After Zhou Dongdong finished gnawing on the ribs, she walked over to the trash can. She hesitated, then carefully examined the bones again before finally throwing them away. After licking her fingers, she was taken by Liu Chang'an to the sink to wash her hands.

"Brother Chang'an, there won't be homework today, right?" Zhou Dongdong asked worriedly.

"I don't know. It's been a long time since I went to elementary school. Probably not," Liu Chang'an said uncertainly.

Many people concerned themselves with education, but few were truly competent, and quite a few had ulterior motives. There were also plenty of businessmen involved. Reforms and improvements came every year, but overall, Liu Chang'an felt that many textbooks simply weren't as good as those from decades ago.

Many texts taught during compulsory education were genuinely crucial—among the most important things students learned. The knowledge in many of them could influence a person for life. For example, Hua Luogeng's Overall Planning Method. Anyone inspired by that text during compulsory education, who consciously or unconsciously applied it to their studies and daily life, had benefited enormously.

It might have sounded a little exaggerated to say that mainland China's compulsory education curriculum used to be the best in the world, but if one really had to name whose curriculum was more scientific and more complete, no one could point to one... Objectively speaking, that was simply how it was.

That was also the foundation of the demographic dividend. Without a sufficiently educated population, no matter how many people there were, they would not bring much of a demographic dividend.

"You never went to elementary school? Then don't go to college. Come to elementary school with me instead. We can go to school and come home together every day." Zhou Dongdong looked at Liu Chang'an expectantly.