Aside from that, Xiao Lin discovered that many of those notes were very faded. The yellowed covers made it hard for him to discern how old they actually were, and their texts were very messy. There was Chinese, English, Russian, and even Normese, which indicated that there were also study notes for the locals.
The man narrowed his eyes and said sentimentally, "There were no unified skills textbooks back then, let alone something like this in the New World. They were taught through apprenticeship, so everyone was accustomed to recording them as notes. The colonial academies later formulated relatively complete textbooks and summarized the more commonly used skills for students to learn. Although it provided great convenience and saved time, it actually made the students lose their creative ability, which makes it hard to say whether it's a good or bad thing."
