Chapter 353: Knowledge Changes Destiny
Finally, the students graduated!
With a new war coming in September next year, there is not much time for the students to rest after graduation, and even though there is not much time left before the Spring Festival, the newly graduated students silently accept their tasks and rush to various parts of the people's army-ruled areas in the carriages prepared by the local people's army.
Only the more than 3,000 people who have received university admission letters will be able to have a Spring Festival holiday.
Graduates who have joined the army come to the recruit training bases in various places to receive three-month recruit training, and graduates who have entered the local people's military governments have also started internships with other officials.
Originally, the jobs of the people's military government in various localities were already full, and almost two people were required to do one job, but with the addition of more than 10,000 graduates of the three-year education, it will soon become three people doing one job.
It is a good thing for the People's Army that so many officials will have it, and when the People's Army unifies the land of China, the People's Army will not be too short of officials to govern various localities, and sufficient officials can effectively ensure the operation of local governments.
Graduates who become teachers have a greater impact on KPA-ruled areas than graduates of three-year education who join the army, become officers, and stay at home on temporary leave.
At first, the People's Army had less than 100 primary schools in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, but three years later, there were more than 900 primary schools in the whole of Guangdong Province, and now there are more than 5,000 primary schools in the five provinces ruled by the People's Army, namely Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang, and about 200,000 young people will be enrolled in these primary schools.
The arrival of the teacher was quickly welcomed by the villagers, who were very young in the eyes of the villagers, and although he was a scholar, he had a higher status than the old man who could not read a single word, and should be respected.
More importantly, this young scholar came to the village school to be a teacher, teaching the children in the village to read and write for free.
With the arrival of the teacher, the registration of new students began, the village chief went door-to-door to notify, let parents bring school-age children to the school to register, according to the number of school-age teenagers in the village, will appropriately reduce or increase the age range of students, a teacher teaches a class of about 40 students, too many students to take care of.
Generally, a school will have two teachers, one is a three-year education graduate, and the other is a military member who has been discharged from the army due to injury, the former teaches cultural classes, and the latter teaches physical education classes.
There are physical education classes for veterans, and the difficulty gradually increases, and by the last semester of the third year, the physical education class has to catch up with the lowest difficulty recruit training.
It is also because of the teaching of these veterans that the graduates who have just entered the recruit training base will feel more relaxed, but it is also possible that the instructors will immediately increase the difficulty of training when they see that the recruits are more relaxed.
Knowing that their children can enter the school to study, no parent will disagree, they are about to jump up with joy, and keep saying thank you to the People's Army and the teacher, giving their children the opportunity to read and write, and when the child grows up, he will definitely repay the People's Army and the teacher.
Not many of the teenagers who are about to enter primary school may not understand the meaning of reading and literacy for them, but the parents of these children who do not know a single big word understand the importance of reading and literacy for their children because of their age.
In the minds of parents, as long as their children can read and write, no matter how bad they are, they will be better off than farming.
Some parents still can't believe that their children have been given the opportunity to read and write for free, and they ask the village chief again and again, and they are almost tired of the village chief's questioning, and finally confirm it, their eyes are red, and they are about to cry with excitement. 89 Literature Network
Similar scenes occur in Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang, Jiangxi provinces and regions, Guangdong Province is much better, after all, there was already one three years ago, three years later to do it again is already acceptable, their children can enter primary school parents will be happy, but not too emotional.
Middle- and upper-income earners in Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Jiangxi provinces have been talking a lot about the People's Army's establishment of schools to teach teenagers to read and write for free.
They were all amazed to learn that the People's Army had built more than 5,000 schools and wanted 200,000 young people to read and write for free.
It costs money to build a school, it costs money to hire a teacher, and the cost of more than 5,000 schools together is not a small amount, and they have never seen such a ruler.
Knowledgeable people know that the social sciences opened by the Yuan Dynasty and even the Ming court, especially in the Jiangxi region, but unfortunately with the passage of time, the social studies have disappeared.
Everyone is speculating about why the People's Army spends so much money to teach hundreds of thousands of teenagers to read and write, but very few people guess that the People's Army cultivates its descendants through schools.
"Teaching so many people to read and write, is there so much use for them?" Many people ask the same question, wondering if they don't feel that there is a need for so many literate people to get literate people to do their work.
Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, literati and scholars had their own arrogance, even if their lives were poor, except for their own homes, they would never do rough work to earn money, and if they wanted to make money, they would sell calligraphy and paintings, or copy books for others.
If the number of literati scholars were several times higher, I am afraid that many literati scholars would starve to death.
In their view, it is also not good to have more literate people, and those who are literate will compete for limited jobs together, and their salaries will continue to fall, and their social status will continue to decline.
In this regard, the intellectuals of the old era became melancholy.
No matter how intellectuals of the old era could have imagined, the People's Army would not only have to make all the young people read and write, but also carry out literacy education when the number of teachers increased, so that all the common people could learn common words, and also learn simple arithmetic.
Is reading useful for farmers?
It will definitely work, at least so that farmers will no longer be ignorant, understand more truths, and find the right way to solve it when they are bullied.
Students who have been educated in schools for many years are even more important to the KPA, they will enter the government, the army, schools, research institutes, and they will bring more changes to the KPA's areas of rule.
In particular, the importance of scientific research will continue to increase.
Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, there were many literate people, but there were a large number of literati and scholars, whose main task was to recite poems, and their contribution to the country was mainly in culture, but they could not bring much change to the lives of ordinary people.