In truth, Dibisson had also happened to catch a good moment.
Building an entire education system was no simple matter.
Take the most basic part—textbooks, for instance. Joseph had already organized people to compile them in secret for about a year and a half, and the official version had only just been completed recently. One had to know that at present, preparatory schools across all Europe—that was, basic education before the age of twelve—were still using the Bible as their textbook. It was not only Church Schools; even the most elite private aristocratic schools were the same. At most, responsible teachers would add something like Homer's Epic as supplementary material.
This led to many children still being unable to carry out the simplest reading and writing after studying for a year, though they could recite scripture with practiced ease... And only now did Joseph learn that French currently did not even have a standard phonetic alphabet.
The most advanced spelling instruction also used a "letter-name" correspondence method invented more than a century ago. For example, the letter name "bé" was used to stand for the /b/ sound, so before a child learned a word, they first had to memorize a pronunciation combination that might be even longer than the word itself. The learning curve was long enough to make one's hair stand on end. Thus, Joseph directly copied over the standard phonetic symbols of later generations, had a group of linguistics experts compile them into a volume, and at the same time produced a dictionary using the phonetic symbols.
After that came the compilation of specialized primary school textbooks.
There were six volumes of textbooks in total, progressing step by step according to word frequency and grammatical difficulty, and using phonetic symbols for pronunciation. Compared with teaching through the Bible,