Chapter 30: The Dilemma of the University of Tokyo
Ninety percent of the 300 students in the Jingyi Department have passed the entrance examination to become Xiucai, so there are many students who come to study in the Jingyi Department, and it is easy to recruit students. The call for the expansion of the Jingyi Branch is getting louder and louder.
The science admissions are not ideal, the first batch of students are now second-year students, and I am preparing for the first three years. The second session enrolled 240 people, less than half, but most of them came voluntarily, and there were many children of major businessmen, since I entered the arithmetic school many times in the Guozijian, and won all the arithmetic professors in the Guozijian, the arithmetic discipline in the school has risen in the eyes of the people, and these students will have to manage the family business in the future, so they must learn arithmetic. Therefore, this year's arithmetic department enrolled 120 people; Thirty people were recruited each in arithmetic, physics, biology, and chemistry, and most of them were children of artisan households and peasant households. I thought about improving the status of the craftsman.
Moreover, Meng Ming asked the first batch of students to go to internships and work-study during the holidays. Some go to the shop to work as bookkeeping assistants, write calculations, and check accounts; Meng Ming also found Kou Zhun and asked him to say hello to the Yamen of the Six Ministries, so that these science students of mine could go to the internship. Therefore, some go to the household yamen to do temporary errands, such as measuring the land and measuring the earthwork; The most of them went to the Ministry of Industry, and there were students in the departments of engineering, craftsmen, tuntian, water conservancy, and transportation. What these students have learned has been applied and put into practice. It has also received wide acclaim.
Many businesses and workshops have come to inquire about recruiting our students. For the sake of the development of the school, Meng Ming changed the school system of science to a two-year system, and the first class of science students graduated. And the directors of many businesses and workshops and the officials responsible for the recruitment of the household department and the Ministry of Industry were gathered together, and a job fair was held on the spot, Meng Ming's factory also needs a large number of technical personnel, so Meng Ming recruited one hundred and twenty people in advance, if it were not for the expansion of the influence of the school, this class of students Meng Ming could accept them all. Most of the students want to work as a clerk in the household department and the industrial department, even if the salary is lower, it is the first choice for these students. There are 20 people in the Department of Household Computing, 15 people in the Department of Biology (including agriculture), and 15 people in the Department of Engineering, 15 people in the Department of Physics, and 15 people in the Department of Chemistry. The others were divided by merchants and workshops, and this year's students became fragrant and glutinous, and all of them were hired.
The students of the second class were also very encouraged to learn and have no worries. Therefore, the students of the science department are like chicken blood, vowing to study hard and strive to enter the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households. The job fair also had a huge repercussion in both the official and non-governmental sectors. Officially, it was seen that these students could surpass the knowledge and skills of those soap officials who had been working in the yamen for decades after only three years of study at the University of Tokyo. It will not be contaminated by the filth in the yamen, and the science students who graduate from the University of Tokyo will be officially recruited as soon as they graduate, of course, but this is only a matter for another time. People see their own children, and when they go to the University of Tokyo, they have a way out, and you find a decent job without suffering from fatigue, so they will be tempted.
According to Meng Ming's point of view in his previous life, there is no distinction between high and low knowledge, and even officials are just reading scriptures and righteousness as the qualifications for scientific examinations, but "learning literature and martial arts, goods and emperors' families." "In ancient times, especially during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the first good object of intellectuals was of course to sell to the masters, the princes of various countries, and the bosses of the ruling powers. If it is sold, it will be able to rise immediately, at least you can get a doctor. Secondly, if you can't sell the owner, you will sell it to the families who are waiting for it, such as Meng Weijun, Pingyuan Jun and other four princes, generally the so-called Qing Dafu and the like, can be their guests, and they will be satisfied. In fact, although the name is called a guest, it is just a member of the family. Such as Feng Yuan, who is a song, is like this. In 237 B.C., when Qin Shi Huang was preparing to unify the six countries, he had issued an expulsion order, and Li Si was also among those who were expelled at that time. Despite this, the demise of the princes of various countries can not be said to be a blow to the culture of raising scholars, and the scholars at this stage are relatively bleak and miserable, most of them live in the rivers and lakes, living the life of rangers, which is the main reason for the prevalence of the style of rangers in the early Han Dynasty. (Excerpt from "Nan Huaijin on History and Life")
The so-called noble people of all kinds, first of all, should be a matter of survival, and the noble conditions needed to build a noble life are nothing more than a means of survival - the basis for settling down and establishing a life, just to eat with a mouthful of food, but materially better. Just start from the roots, how different is it from the old farmer's soil to dig food!
Therefore, Meng Ming wants to refute the current argument that only "scholars" are superior, whether it is the invention of movable type printing, reducing the cost of printing books, so that people who want to read can afford books, and finally everyone in the world can read and write, so that reading is no longer the privilege of the so-called "scholars", so that they can become a privileged class at one time. The establishment of this Tokyo University Hall is also to change the world's current perception that "only reading is high", so that scholars can see that students studying science will have a way out, and they will be decent and worry-free. Later, the new Confucianism was to dig out the old Confucianism, which had been tampered with beyond recognition and decay day by day, and to start anew, vacate the cage for birds, put forward the new Confucianism, boil frogs in warm water, and quietly cut off the control of knowledge from the gentry class. It can also stifle the birth of the more conservative and decadent Cheng Zhu Lixue.
Meng Ming knows that this road is not easy to follow, but he also has to check, at least Meng Ming has lit the fire, in the previous life, the Taizu of the Red Dynasty once said when the revolution was the most difficult and dark: "A spark can start a prairie fire", Meng Ming was also full of confidence and rose to the occasion.
In the future, the semester of science students at the University of Tokyo Hall will be increased to four years, and the last year will be an internship at a related unit, and now the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry have signed a contract to become an internship unit, and the subsequent Kaifeng Prefecture and the following Gyeonggi Prefecture are also recruiting interns from the University of Tokyo Hall.
Meng Ming thinks that the University Hall of Tokyo will definitely be recognized, within three years from this year. Therefore, I plan to plan the second phase of the construction of the University Hall, and strive to complete it within three years.