After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 702

Chapter 702: Raising them Well
The teachers for literacy were just the previous hires taking this as a part-time job. Or rather, they were asked to help create some guide books, and then the rest of the teachers based on this.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t considered getting another random hire in the village center, regardless of what they were applying for, but the thing was—literacy really wasn’t much of a thing here.

Among the people she had hired, only those from the city like Oslo and Betty, with a few exemptions like Brenda (thanks to her hardworking father) and Rowan could read. The others just learned from them as time went on.

There was a long way before they achieved 100% proficiency in the Xeno written language, but with her people’s brains and yearning to learn, they would adjust in time.

The Physical Education class, on the other hand, would be led in rotation by the guard team. They would teach basic health and stances. They would also be training the children’s foundations at this stage.

By ‘foundation’, it was not just limited to the Physical. Rather, it included mental and practical skills.

They would be subjected to endurance training to build their endurance and prepare them for long periods of physical activity later in life. Strength exercises were also important, though they would vary according to the child’s age.

They would also be training their mental resilience, hoping they would be able to handle stressors and stimulants productively. This would be done by using challenge-based activity for young kids, and stress and pressure stimulation for older ones.

If they had the predisposition to be elementalists (which all Terran children seemed to be), the meditation exercises would also be taught to them early in order to form a habit.

Other than these, the children would also be taught some basic plant and animal knowledge, as well as camping and survival knowledge from an early age as well.

The teenagers would comprise the high school class. This one had fewer class hours because they were already expected to fight during mobs and would be starting to hunt/clear out enemies at least a few times a week.

Their classes were advanced versions of those learned in elementary. Advanced fighting and survival classes would also be part of their curriculum.

Advanced survival skills were also taught at this age. They would be taught proper foraging techniques and food preparation.

They would even be taught basic shelter making. For instance, if they found themselves in the middle of a forest on a mission and it rained, they should be able to make a temporary shed to protect them from it.

After all, the rain here was different from Terran. It could literally weaken them—and that was a dangerous thing in the wild.

They would also be taught basic first aid and how to make impromptu bandages and the like, hoping to prepare them for the inevitable injuries they’d experience in time.

The kids had no books for now, but they could at least buy some notebooks in the school bookstore.

The paper factory allocated a certain amount of paper to schools. When books became more readily available outside the government institutions and the library, they would also be sold in the school bookstore on the ground floor.

Other than these, there were also adult classes like Xeno language literacy, Pharmacy, Basic cooking, and the like. There would also be specialist classes like paper making, ceramics, et cetera, but they would be on bond with the territory for at least 2 years.

Although there was tuition—which was much more expensive than the kids’—it actually wasn’t expensive considering everything. To be honest, it was practically subsidized and the tuition was just there in order for the system to not be taken advantage of by lazy people.

Who would want to train people but just have them work for others? They should at least get their ROI.

Mauin citizens had heard of the adult classes mentioned in the newspaper, though they couldn’t read yet so they depended on others to read for them.

They were still a bit cynical about something so good happening to them, but when they saw how the Terrans discussed it they couldn’t help but believe.

Speaking of this, after the students settled down and began their classes, several adults also entered to school the to inquire about the adult classes.

“Can we learn to read?”

“Of course.”

Some would ask about the life knowledge. “Can we really make ceramics after graduation?”

Some would also ask about future employment. “Did Baron say he’d hire those who graduated from woodworking class?”

“Can we really apply for the Research Center if we get good grades?”

Anyway, it was quite lively and the administrators tried their best to answer. Soon, they finished the question and answer session by asking everyone interested to register.

When it was his turn, Maui couldn’t help but pause. First of all, he couldn’t write yet, so he embarrassedly had to ask the administrators—who were understanding, gentle, and helpful by the way—to do it for him.

As he watched his name being jotted down, he cleared his throat. “How… does the classes work?”

“It’s just a few hours a week, so you could keep your jobs and your training schedules. Schedules available are listed here,” he said, handing over a piece of paper with a list of schedules. Then he remembered they couldn’t read yet, so he asked his teammate to read it out loud.

While this was ongoing, Gochi and the others were outside, watching as more and more adults entered the gate. He was frozen on the spot, drowning in various thoughts, reluctants, and doubts until a voice sounded next to him. “Why don’t you enter?”

The voice was familiar and he flinched as he turned to her. “M-Miss Althea!”

“There are also courses like Basic Pharmacy, you know,” she said. “Why don’t you try and enroll?”

Gochi stared at her with a complicated expression. This made Althea (and her husband closely next to her) stare at him.

Why wouldn’t he try? Gochi asked himself. It was because he… didn’t think he could do so…

“What’s wrong?”

He shook a bit and felt shy, but his eyes met Miss Althea’s pure green eyes.

She smiled, nodding in encouragement.

“Go,” she said, “You definitely have the talent for it.”

Looking at her full of trust in him, he couldn’t bring himself to decline. He couldn’t bear to disappoint her either. So, following the crowd, he tentatively entered the school to enroll.

From then on, after his duties as a guard, he would go straight to school.

After a couple of months of training, Gochi would then be the first half-orc military medic in Xeno history.