Adults don't have that awakening awareness, plus the economy is backward. Everyday life doesn't require literacy, just the ability to farm and work hard to fill their stomachs.
What they can teach their children is only these skills.
"It feels like these adults' thinking is really backward."
Ayane said this.
Having accompanied Hakushi in visiting so many villagers, this was her only thought.
"This is the most genuine thought in their hearts. What they need is a livelihood, not literacy or knowledge useless to them."
In this era of low productivity, the grains and vegetables produced by ordinary farmers barely sustain their needs after taxes.
Schools, in their subconscious, are places only found in cities and learning is for nobles, while farmers should diligently do farm work to support themselves and their families.
Such thinking, in Hakushi's view, is naturally wrong, backward, and ignorant. But from the village's actual situation, this thought is correct.
Things from big cities don't fit their situation.
Just like the ninja learning material, ordinary people don't need it. It's useless for them, and they couldn't learn or apply it.
"This is the reason for my practical investigation. If at that time schools were established here and materials distributed uniformly, they would definitely be disliked and hated by villagers because the city materials do not contain knowledge they need."
Disregarding farmers' interests and needs will naturally lead to rejection, unable to unify thoughts.
"It sounds very troublesome." Ayane's head hurt, but seeing Hakushi so confident, she thought he had a magnetic male charm.
"Each person's needs differ, and the development of a force cannot be separated from talented people across industries. The future Ninja Realm will be talent-centric. Talents emerge from sifting through sands, requiring broadening the 'base' to have more talents. The ninja lifestyle is something ordinary people can't reach."
Therefore, Hakushi needs to distinguish between ninja and ordinary people's education methods.
Among ordinary people, due to geographical, educational, and economic factors, the schools and materials provided will vary greatly.
Poor places must be taught wealth-generating knowledge, swiftly resolving subsistence issues.
In affluent areas, there's no need to worry about basics, therefore the chance of creating talents is much higher compared to poor regions.
The current world is an era of ninjas.
The role of ordinary people is overlooked.
Ultimately, ninjas are selected from ordinary people.
Focusing on ninja power development while neglecting the common people is an arrogant mistake.
From this village, Hakushi could roughly understand the life environment in non-city areas of the Land of Demons. Wealthy villages are minority; most still struggle for basic needs.
Next, Hakushi spent a few more days further understanding this village before bidding farewell to Granny Kanoko and heading elsewhere for practical research.
Returning to the organization headquarters happened a month later, coinciding with early spring in March.
Over the month, Hakushi sometimes spent nights in caves with Ayane, sometimes residing in villagers' homes.
Problems were plenty, but the advantages were clear: there wasn't chaos, order was stable, and they could gradually figure out solutions, an approach Hakushi felt did not require urgency.
Upon returning to headquarters, the area for ninja training was already completed.
This school could simultaneously accommodate several hundred people to learn ninja skills. The space was extensive, with enough area for practical training.
Hakushi planned to select students from within the Land of Demons, with others provided by the Uchiha Race, Hyuga Clan, and Uzumaki Clan offering appropriately aged children.
Finally, young orphans would be found throughout the Ninja Realm, brought back for training.
Training ninjas through Natural Energy doesn't require any chakra aptitude.
As long as one's body has no severe defects, they can develop combat skills. If nothing else, using Taijutsu would be something ordinary people cannot withstand.
The weakness is the probability of cultivating top-tier, powerful ninjas is low; the strength lies in using quantity to compensate quality, ensuring no shortage of fighters.
After all, homeless orphans are everywhere in the Ninja Realm—picking at random could gather hundreds or thousands.
Current reports indicate more than four hundred orphans have been collected and official ninja training will start in April next month.
The school will officially operate, barring unforeseen circumstances, in nine years.
"Lord Hakushi, this is a letter from Konoha."
As Hakushi observed in the school area, a man wearing a coat embroidered with the Shion Flower emblem appeared via Instantaneous Body Jutsu, handing a letter to Hakushi.
Hakushi opened the letter, scanning briefly.
Last year he negotiated an agreement with Konoha representatives here to establish collaboration for medical ninja training.
Shion Flower Company provided some medical data, while Konoha would train medical ninjas for them.
Official cooperation begins in April next month, aligning with the start of the Konoha Ninja School term.