Although Xiao Xuan doesn't know some things about modern teachers, he still has some rumors: "Yes, modern teachers have to spend a lot of energy on things other than teaching. From the source of students to parents, there are often good and bad, and it is probably a thankless task to work with an idealistic and conscientious attitude. However, in our day and age, you can feel free to do it. Combined with the teaching and research time of these years, he created a new style and principles of education that were completely different from those of later generations. I believe that in the present and even decades or even hundreds of years, our education will never be what it is at the beginning of the 21st century, at home or abroad... ”

Xiao Xuan has never worked as a teacher, but at this time, he understands that after sweeping away the entire European continent, whether the whole world has lost its future because of his own existence depends to a large extent on whether these children with Beihai College as the core can truly fragrance peach and plum and create a miracle that has not existed in the history of another plane. In Xiao Xuan's expectation, he also hopes to be able to enter the threshold of the early twentieth century, at least in some practical technical fields, in his lifetime.

Regarding the idea of the future science and education system, Xiao Xuan had thought a lot about it when the army returned to the division, and Huang Dou had more intentions in this regard, and Xiao Xuan also had a lot of doubts in his heart, so he communicated with Huang Dou at this time.

Huang Dou didn't have too many reservations at this time: "I know that the king hopes to seize the day in his lifetime, but sometimes he can't reach it quickly. I think that modern China has had some detours in education, perhaps because of the excessive requirements and pressures of international competition and even industrial development in that era, it had to accommodate too much in terms of fairness, and even the development and expansion of education. In this era, if the principle of innovation comes first, the base size is not as important as imagined. As long as you can strictly control the selection and assessment, there is no doubt that many things can get twice the result with half the effort. Because: our best craftsman resources are limited, scientific research investment and the ability to conduct large-scale experiments are limited, and we can't afford to support too many researchers for the time being... ”

Hearing this, Xiao Xuan smiled and said, "You don't need to worry too much about this matter now. This time, at least tens of thousands of craftsmen and scholars from Europe traveled thousands of miles to come, not only human resources. The financial aspect should also be guaranteed. At least with the first batch of tens of millions of taels of gold, and on this basis to issue a currency that can be exchanged for gold, the financial situation can be temporarily opened up a lot... ”

Huang Dou pondered for a moment, but still did not change his mind, and said bluntly: "According to my experience, there is no qualitative difference between seventy students and more than twenty students in a class under the medium intensity of teaching input. However, if there are only about 10 students in a class, this will be qualitatively different. It will force the children to try to communicate across classes earlier, and the teacher will be able to directly manage every aspect of the children. Even if the student's consciousness is not very good, it hardly takes much effort to go to class. Also, it's easier for teachers and students to get along. The cycle time can be shortened. Even so, in 10 to 15 years, the number of students and even graduates of the entire Beihai College will expand to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands after 15 to 20 years, and millions after 20 to 25 years. You know, even in nineteenth-century Victorian England, there weren't so many geniuses who completed primary or intermediate education. Not to mention universities, where there were only tens of thousands of university students in Britain before World War II. If the total number of adults in China is tens of millions in a few decades, this proportion will reach about one-tenth. You must know that human nature is born different. The proportion of people who are truly suitable for university education in modern times is only one-twentieth to one-tenth of the sky... ”

Hearing this, many doubts in Xiao Xuan's heart were completely put down, because his cousin used to be a college student, but his experience after graduation obviously showed that the scale and proportion of enrollment expansion similar to the end of the 20th century was a bit too wasteful. I couldn't help but say: "It seems that I am a little too anxious." ”

Beihai Academy is a matter that Xiao Xuan attaches great importance to, so after making up his mind to move the capital, he also hopes that the entire academy can move to the south.

When Huang Dou heard that Xiao Xuan planned to move the capital, he seemed to hesitate a little, and after thinking for a while, he felt that he should be outspoken, so he advised: "Since ancient times, the dynasty that has fixed the capital of Jiangdong has not had a very good situation. It seems too complicated and not easy to control the whole country ... ”

At this time, Xiao Xuan also changed his views in many aspects compared to back then, so he also said bluntly: "Of course, Huaxia needs a backbone of great unification. But if you are too accommodating in this regard, it will affect many other things, and it will be too much. Times are different now. There should be a different self-confidence than in ancient times. This time, the capital was moved to the south because it was the most important economic center of this era. China in the new era needs not only new science and education, but also a new economic and political order. Perhaps only in this way can progress be carried out more effectively ... ”

Thinking of this, Xiao Xuan's heart was a little more relieved and firm.

There are pessimistic or optimistic views, one is that it is not far from the United States, and it is clearly beyond Russia. There are also those who believe that they cannot defeat the United States, Russia, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region without foreign aid, and even Japan has the ability to threaten China without restraint, and Gengzi is second in the late Qing Dynasty, and so on. So which one is the right one?

In fact, there is no need for too detailed arguments, just a glimpse or two from some simple and verifiable clues.

For strategic or geographical reasons, the weight of the status of the navy is not the same in all countries of the world, but the weight of the status of the air force is mostly not far behind. Even some small countries in Southeast Asia or Africa attach importance to the role of air power. The reason is that for many civilized and backward countries, the army is unreliable and inefficient, but it is not difficult to select a small number of elite and reliable personnel. This is why there was a huge disparity in air and ground performance in the Indo-Pakistani War and the Anglo-Argentine War. Although the performance of the Beiyang Naval Division in the late Qing Dynasty was problematic, it was also stronger than the army, and the same is true: for a late feudal dynasty, it is always not difficult to train thousands of reliable forces, while hundreds of thousands of reliable troops are very challenging to the civilization system.

And among the equipment that each country attaches equal importance to, the most valuable equipment is no longer the tank

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