After pondering for a long time, Fang Yun realized the time was ripe to begin the work he had always intended to write.
Slowly, Fang Yun wrote four characters on a blank sheet of paper.
Fang Clan Dictionary.
The Saint Origin Continent already had several dictionaries, but each had flaws of one kind or another, making it difficult to establish a unified standard. Yet the standardization of dictionaries and their use held immense significance for the human race.
It had to be said that the sages' views on education remained rooted in the era of Confucius. They still believed in tailoring instruction to each student's aptitude.
Tailored instruction suited higher education and elite education, but demanded an enormous amount of educational resources. Whether tailored instruction or holistic education, both were castles in the air, both impediments to the progress of the human masses.
Such approaches to education were not bad in themselves. Rather, they were difficult to implement before the human race's strength reached a certain level.
Only if the influence of the Literary Star and the world's vital energy on the human race became dozens of times stronger, so that children could remember everything at a glance, anyone could help them overcome obstacles in their studies, passing the Metropolitan Graduate examination became effortless, and a few words of guidance from a teacher could have a tremendous effect, could that kind of education be implemented.
With an excellent dictionary to assist them, students willing to study could acquire additional knowledge outside class even if their families were of ordinary means or their intelligence unremarkable, avoiding falling behind peers with access to greater educational resources.
Libraries, simplified characters, vernacular prose, dictionaries, punctuation, Zhuyin symbols-all these changes had just one purpose.
To reduce the obstacles the human race faced on the road