Chapter 337 S: Glorious Event (Seventeen)
A few hours later, Charles, who came to the laboratory of Stark Building to pick up the students, saw that Stark had hung a sign saying "No Mutants Allowed" on the door of his laboratory.
Charles, who learned the whole process, was also helpless. As a very rare high-level intellectual among mutants, he could understand Stark's anger. In the process of communicating with this group of second-generation mutants, as long as any professional knowledge was involved, it was like talking to a duck, because they had never read a book.
Xavier School for the Gifted is called a school, but in fact it is more like a nursing home. This school teaches students how to control and develop their own power, rather than teaching them knowledge. This has led to the fact that these mutants who should have been in college at this age have empty heads and know nothing.
To be honest, the students in Xavier School are all good. At least Iceman can follow Banner's command and produce fairly good results. People like Polaris, whose education is limited to prenatal education, have a bad temper, and are particularly impatient, can really anger the scholar-type personality to death.
Charles knew better than anyone that this was not a solution. When everyone was on Earth, it didn't matter whether they learned knowledge or not. After all, their own abilities were strong enough, and they would never starve to death.
But if humans entered the cosmic era, knowledge would be the primary productive force. The average education level of mutants could graduate from prenatal education, but it was because Charles raised the average level. When we really entered the cosmic era, one or two powerful mutants would be useless. It was imperative to improve the basic education of mutants.
But it was extremely difficult for any region or any race to promote basic education. Charles thought about it all night without any result, so he went to Schiller for a drink.
It wasn't that he drank to relieve his sorrow, but he just wanted to hear what new views Schiller had. After all, he keenly felt that Schiller didn't have the hatred for mutants that ordinary people had. Maybe he could find a new way to look at the problem from another angle. <.
"Charles, can I call you that? I think the problem is that your moral standards are a bit too high."
"What do you mean?"
In the reception room of Schiller's Thinking Building, Charles asked with a glass of wine. Schiller shook his head and said, "You don't want to use your ability to do bad things, which I understand, because you do have a noble character."
"But you can't just stop using your ability because it's so powerful. Why do you have to consider how powerful it is when you use it for the right things?"
Charles seemed to have thought of something, and he asked, "You mean..."
"You want to popularize education, to impart knowledge to them, to keep them up with the times, which is a good thing."
"Even if they can't use the knowledge they learn, it won't go bad if they keep it in their minds. No matter where they get it, they can still use it. On the one hand, it is not bad for them at all, so why can't you take advantage of your ability? "
"I know that the difficulty in promoting basic education among mutants is that the positions of mutants are inconsistent. You can't completely convince Magneto, and it is impossible for him to disband the Brotherhood, but you want to teach his subordinates knowledge, you want to strengthen them, why should he refuse? "
"More importantly, this does not take up their daytime time at all. They can do whatever they want during the day, play when they want to play, and fall in love when they want to fall in love. At night, they only need to dream to learn the essence of human knowledge in their brains. Is there anything better than this? "
"If there is such a good thing when I am studying, I will wake up with a smile in my dreams. I think you are the same, right? "
Charles frowned Gradually he relaxed and said, "There is another problem. Even if I can impart knowledge to them, I cannot impart it to them if I do not understand it myself."
"Moreover, the output and input of human thinking are limited. I cannot cram so much knowledge into their brains at once. It will cause them to have a mental breakdown."
Schiller smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "I think you can build a school in the consciousness space, and then pull their consciousness in and let them learn."
"As for the problem of knowledge, you do not have to teach yourself. Now, there are several of the world's top scientists waiting there. You can also let them dream and let them be teachers. There will be no one in this world who understands the essence of human knowledge better than them."
Charles nodded and said, "Indeed, whether it is Stark or the others, they are all top scientists. I know that they all teach at the most famous universities. If you want to listen to their lectures, you must at least be admitted to schools of the level of Harvard and MIT..."
"That's it. The smartest genius in the world teaches mutants. Where can you find such a good thing?"
But Charles was still a little hesitant. He said, "The mess caused by Polaris and others before made Stark very angry. Will he..."
"It doesn't matter. They are young and equivalent to Stark's juniors. As long as they apologize, Stark won't care."
"That's the problem." Charles sighed and said, "The other few people are fine, but Polaris's temper is really exactly the same as his father..."
"Professor, you just need to explain your purpose to Magneto, and emphasize to him that you want Polaris to go to school and learn knowledge, and learn from Stark. Even if Polaris is unwilling, Magneto will press her head and make her apologize."
Charles glanced at Schiller and said, "You seem to know Eric very well?"
Schiller shook his head and said, "This is not a difficult thing to guess. Any parent in this world is like this. If they don't get it, they hope their children can get it."
"You told me about Magneto's experience before. He didn't have many opportunities to receive education, but that can only be said to be a tragedy of the times. He is not unwilling to learn, but he doesn't have the opportunity. People are regretful and eager for what they don't have. If they can realize it in their children, then they will definitely do their best."
"The people who understand the importance of education the most in this world are, first, those who benefit from education and change their class because of education, and second, those who have never received education, but after improving their class because of other abilities, they find that education is a shortcut."
Charles nodded and said, "Eric belongs to the second type. He taught himself a lot of physics-related knowledge. That's why he can use magnetism to perfection. "
"And even though we have had conflicts many times, he has never fought on the campus of Xavier School."
"In fact, I once persuaded him to study for a degree, which is not difficult for him, but you also know that when we come to this point, some things are no longer something we can decide. We represent our own position and the group of people standing on this position. In addition to being responsible for ourselves, we must also be responsible for them."
Charles was a little emotional as he spoke. He said: "So many years have passed, and we have changed from people who lead others forward to people who are pushed."
This seems to be a pun. Schiller glanced at Charles' legs and asked: "So, this is why you are reluctant to stand up?"
"After all, a victim can always make people sympathize, and a disabled person is more likely to make people relax their vigilance..."
A day later, Charles built a very beautiful school in his consciousness space. Although it looks exactly like Xavier's School for Gifted Teenagers, except that the wall tiles have changed color, it is undeniable that this is indeed a very standard school.
His plan went very smoothly. All those who were willing to attend the class and those who were unwilling to attend the class were pulled over by him to attend the class. In this regard, no one could resist Charles.
Because this was indeed a good thing. After Charles no longer had any psychological burden of abusing his power, everyone realized that it was better to be obedient.
Just as Schiller expected, although Magneto never took off his helmet and guarded against Charles like a thief, he did not raise any objections when he heard that Charles wanted to take Polaris to study, and even asked him to burn Wanda and Quicksilver.
Originally, Wanda and Quicksilver were going to come, but Wanda was not on Earth at the moment, so only Quicksilver came.
Magneto had a bad relationship with his children, but because his relationship with Wanda and Quicksilver was even worse, his relationship with Polaris seemed okay.
Polaris's temper was really the same as Magneto's. When she knew that she was going to be forced to attend classes in school, she decisively chose to run away from home, and also wanted to persuade Shockwave and Iceman to go with her.
Unfortunately, Magneto and Charles agreed on this, and when the two mutant leaders agreed, nothing in the world could stop them, so Polaris was still brought here.
At this time, she was biting a pen, leaning on her head with one hand, tapping on the table with the other hand, looking at the sky, the ground, and the table, but not at the blackboard. She turned her head to chat with Shockwave, and then quarreled with Quicksilver in a low voice.
Banner was teaching on the stage, and he didn't care when he saw Polaris's little movements. As a professor, he had seen too many such students, who didn't listen in class, didn't hand in homework, and prayed to God when it came to the final exam.
Banner was just invited to give a lecture. He was not a mutant and was not responsible for the future of mutants, so he didn't care whether these students listened or not.
But Charles frowned, a little dissatisfied with the situation in the classroom.
In fact, the knowledge Banner taught was not difficult. He started from the basics of physics. However, it seemed that these mutant students did not develop good learning habits, so even if they tried to listen carefully, they were habitually distracted.
During the day, Charles stayed in his office, thinking about how to reverse this situation and improve the enthusiasm of students. At this time, he received a call from Stark. Before Stark spoke, Charles said:
"I'm really sorry, Mr. Stark. It was indeed because they did not control their temper that the exploration work failed..."
"Oh, no, I called to say that I had some misunderstandings about mutants. My attitude was a bit bad before. This time your students did a great job..."
Charles was a little confused. He said: "What? What did you do so well?"
He thought Stark was being sarcastic, but Stark's tone revealed a very real excitement. He said: "It was those kids you sent to perform tasks with Spider-Man before. Do you know what they did?"
"...What?"
"They brought back a Kree frigate! It's now parked at the edge of the solar system!"