Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside

Chapter 1590 - 1592: Standing Up for Her

What kind of students can an academy like this produce?

Moreover, the teachers they hire don’t have very high knowledge, so such an academy poses no threat to him.

He continued, "As for that academy! Teaching the kids to read is fine, but for exams, they still need to come to academies like ours."

Since Mr. Liu said so, everyone increasingly thought Mr. Liu was right and began to agree.

"Mr. Liu is right, you can’t go to an academy like that for exams."

"Country folks really are short-sighted, they send their kids there just to save a little tuition, hoping to save some money, but they don’t consider that their kids won’t learn anything, so how can they advance in their studies?"

"Exactly, they still need to go to well-known academies in town and in the County."

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Yang Dong sat there, drinking tea and listening to everyone’s words; the more he listened, the darker his expression became. He already had a bit of a temper and was somewhat straightforward, and words of doubt, even some disdain, made him very angry.

He directly poured the teacup he was holding onto the table.

Suddenly, there was a clattering sound in the room, a sound that clearly expressed Yang Dong’s anger.

Li Chuntao was also surprised, wondering why Yang Dong was so forceful?

Yang Dong stood up and loudly exclaimed, "You people, don’t talk nonsense when you don’t know the situation. Who says that academy is not good? That academy is very good. The reason why the children there run, play games, sing, and dance is to cultivate their well-rounded development in moral, intellectual, physical, and artistic education, to give them good health, morals, and brains, to learn the principles of being a person. Or do you think all academies are like yours in town and in the County, where they only know how to study rigidly? All they produce are bookish nerds who are useless after they graduate?"

Yang Dong was not a scholar and couldn’t say scholarly things; he could only say these words. The ideas of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic, and labor development were things his third sister-in-law often talked about, which he had heard.

Li Chuntao didn’t expect Yang Dong to angrily stand up for her, and her heart felt very warm and touched. She felt this was enough.

She too stood up and, very politely, said, "Mr. Liu, don’t just look at things superficially. Everyone has their method of educating children. How can you be sure that the children I teach are no good?"

"Hope Academy aims to be a place where kids from the countryside can afford to attend, not only attend but learn well, so they can find joy in studying,"

Li Chuntao said these words gracefully and confidently, neither humble nor arrogant, causing the tea house to fall silent.

Mr. Liu, annoyed and embarrassed, didn’t expect that the woman who started Hope Academy was in this tea house, "Hmph, what can a woman like you accomplish?"

Faced with Mr. Liu’s attitude, Li Chuntao just smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, you’re an old scholar, even in matters of knowledge, everyone should be humble and learn from each other, not like you, getting annoyed and looking down on others. You must have heard this saying, ’Don’t judge a book by its cover; the sea cannot be measured with a bushel,’ so don’t underestimate people!"

After Li Chuntao finished speaking, she intended to leave with Yang Dong, and after understanding her intention, Yang Dong placed some silver on the table.

Just like that, the two left, and as they reached the door, Li Chuntao seemed to think of something and stopped in her tracks.