Chapter 44: Unlucky Seldon

The next day, after class, Schiller collected homework on time as usual, but today he found that all 32 homeworks in the class were neatly handed in, and judging from the thickness, they all seemed to have enough words.

He was a little surprised. Although he urged the students to hand in their homework, there were always one or two people who didn't hand it in. Among the many people who handed it in, there were also many who just messed around, writing two pages casually with a bunch of blank papers in the middle, or simply copied some articles and handed them in.

But this time, he stood on the podium and flipped through it roughly, and found that everyone had actually written the paper seriously. Although some of them were not written well, and it was obvious that they had never written a paper before, at least they tried to stick to the topic. Although the wording was like that of a desperate illiterate, at least they tried not to go off topic.

When the students saw him flipping through the homework, they didn't dare to breathe. In the past, at this time, the class was about to end, and the students were packing up, but now no one moved. They all stayed in their seats honestly, waiting for Schiller to speak.

The reason for this situation is very simple. Just last night, the whole class knew that Schiller went directly to Falcone, the underground king of Gotham, to chase Evans for homework.

In the era without Batman, let's call this era the "pre-Batman era". In this era, the one with the most say in Gotham is Falcone and the twelve mafia families under his rule.

How powerful are these mafia families? Sal Maroni, the East District tyrant, is just a running dog of the Lauren family, and the Lauren family ranks last among the twelve mafia families.

The first one is the Falcone family, and the old godfather Falcone has the final say over the twelve families.

In this era, you don't need to know who the mayor of Gotham City is, or even who Bruce Wayne is, but you must know the surnames of Falconer and the other twelve mafia families, otherwise you can't survive in Gotham.

Since knowing that Schiller had pursued the homework to the Godfather of Gotham, all the students' homework-making experience last night was quite thrilling.

Schiller was very happy, so he said: "The situation of this homework looks optimistic. It seems that everyone has finished it seriously. After I finish marking these homework, I will give everyone an extra ten points. For those who wrote better, if you don't have the intention to study for a master's degree, you can come to my office to talk about the recommendation letter..."

As a result, warm applause suddenly rang out in the classroom. I don't know whether it was for the reward Schiller said or for themselves who survived the disaster.

And all this was seen by the principal, Shedon.

Shedon is a person who is persistent in a nice way and stubborn in a bad way. He will find ways to deal with anyone he targets. Although Schiller's tough attitude prevents him from taking action immediately, he has been looking for opportunities.

The principal can mobilize the surveillance cameras in all classrooms of Gotham University and observe the teachers' lectures. This function has become the best way for Shedon to monitor Schiller.

In the next few days, in Schiller's class, all the students were as quiet as chickens. Evans took the initiative to take on the role of class monitor, collecting homework, handing in homework, and distributing homework every day, organizing classroom discipline, and the entire teaching situation was in order, and no one could find any faults.

This gave Shedon an illusion.

When he worked in the Academic Affairs Office of Princeton, most of the students were basically at this level. After coming to Gotham University, he was busy gaining his foothold and did not take the initiative to understand the level of the students. In his opinion, doing homework is the student's duty. Although Gotham University is not ranked as high as Princeton, it seems that the quality of the students is not much worse.

At least in Schiller's class.

Shedon only observed Schiller's class, and in Schiller's class, all the students were very quiet and completed their learning tasks very well, which made Schiller's teaching arrangements very smooth.

So Shedon had other ideas.

As we all know, the campus alcohol ban he promoted was stuck in a position that was neither up nor down.

Most of the people who are willing to follow this plan have handed over their wine, but those who are unwilling are die-hards. They would rather resist with guns than let the school interfere with their right to drink.

Students can resist with guns, but as the principal, Seldon cannot force students not to drink with a gun. He is not a native of Gotham and his thinking is still stuck in a civilized society, so this plan is stuck in a rather embarrassing position and cannot be implemented.

Finding that they don't want to drink the penalty wine, Seldon wants to toast again.

Before taking up administrative work, Seldon was also a professor. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in modern literature and taught at the University of California and Metropolitan University.

Seldon felt that in order to control Gotham University, he must also get along with the students. Being welcomed by everyone like Harvey is also a good route.

So he wanted to teach a course himself.

Coincidentally, Gotham University has almost no literature department. There is only one teacher who teaches basic courses, and the literature and philosophy majors have not recruited students for many years. After all, this damn place really has no soil for literature and philosophy.

Revitalize the Department of Literature and take the lead in reviving the literature major. If he can recruit a group of students from the Faculty of Arts who were taught by him, then he will have his own direct lineage in this school. This is what Shedon planned.

And it seems that Schiller's class is very comfortable, and the teaching objectives are also well implemented. In general, the sky is clear and the rain has stopped, and Shedon thinks he is good again.

Although he is a university professor, the process of teaching is not much different from teaching in elementary school. Shedon is like a cloud player watching videos. He feels relaxed watching Schiller's class on the other side of the monitor.

Schiller's class process is just to walk into the classroom, wait for the students to sit down, and then take out the textbook to start the lecture. There will be one or two discussion sessions in the middle. After the discussion, either Schiller asks questions or the group sends someone to speak. After the speech, Schiller makes a round of summary, and then talks about something else. When the class is about to end, he collects homework, and there will be a review of homework at the beginning of the next class.

This is how university classrooms were in the 20th century. There were no fancy slides, and most teachers just read from the textbook. This was especially true for subjects like psychology, which required a lot of memorization of theoretical knowledge. If you don't explain the book thoroughly, you can't expect to learn anything.

This process is indeed not difficult to watch in the classroom video. If the students cooperate, you can even finish the teaching goal in advance, and you can chat for a while when it's almost over.

Since the students began to become particularly obedient, Schiller was also willing to talk to them about the crazy murderers he had seen. Although Schiller could not remember many details because of amnesia, this legendary experience still made these young boys listen with relish. They found that this particularly strict professor did have his strengths.

When announcing the establishment of the School of Literature, Seldon fired the teacher of the basic literature course and started teaching himself.

Just like most online game video players, when watching the video, they feel that they can play themselves, and point fingers crazily from the perspective of God, but when they really get into the game, they are basically killed, and they quit, delete the game, and refund the money in one go.

Seldon is no exception.

After the class really started, he found that Schiller's class was a complete illusion. There was no obedient student here at all. The basic literature class and the basic psychology class are somewhat similar, that is, they need to recite a lot and write papers.

The first time they handed in homework, there were dozens of homeworks in the whole class, but only two were handed in, and one of them was only half the number of words.

Seldon showed his tough politician style and denounced this behavior of not handing in homework in class, so when he handed in homework for the second time, he didn't hand in any homework.

For example, some people are naturally interested in science courses such as mathematics and physics, but no Gotham University student will listen to the tedious and boring courses such as basic literature.

Students did all kinds of things in class. Sleeping was considered a good hobby. Some ate, some chatted loudly, some made noises by pressing the game controllers, and some even flirted in public.

No matter how Seldon yelled, no one paid any attention to him. Even if he slammed the door and walked out in anger, the class would only become a chaotic self-study class.

Seldon also didn't understand Gotham. If he did, he would know that the students were good enough. The quality of people who could go to college in this city was really high enough.

In this city, there was no threatening classmates with guns, no physical bombing of the school, and no kidnapping of teachers and professors. Gotham students could already be called the model of civilization in this city.

But Seldon was almost pissed off by them.

In particular, many students knew that the damn prohibition was made by Seldon, so they began to protest in Seldon's class. Someone took a whole box of champagne, uncorked it in the front row, and sprayed Seldon, pouring wine all over him. They even organized a drinking party in the class.

Seldon shouted that he would deduct credits and expel them, but the gang didn't care at all. After Seldon expelled two students, the remaining students became even crazier. As a result, on a dark night, Seldon was walking in the school and was hit on the head by two wine bottles thrown from the bushes by someone. He was admitted to the hospital.

He couldn't understand why the students who were as obedient as quails in Schiller's class became crazy extremists in his class.

Maybe he just didn't hear Schiller say: Here, the only people who can deal with criminals are criminals.