At the end of last year, Jensen, an American education consultant, submitted an investigation report to Zhu Jinglun after a six-month visit. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jensen is a veteran official from the education department of Pennsylvania, USA, who has been a primary and secondary school teacher for ten years, and has been working in the administrative department since then, with good work ability, especially a sense of mission in education, he himself is not religious, education is his belief.

This was a consultant who was very much in line with Zhu Jinglun's request, and he was the first to come to Guangdong, and then Zhu Jinglun sent troops to protect him to inspect various places.

After his investigation and sampling of more than 500 private schools in Xin'an, Dongguan, and Xiangshan counties, the statistics showed that only 10 percent of the local education popularization in Guangdong was popularized, and perhaps this was quite high, because these three counties belonged to counties with relatively good economic levels, and the overall level was probably not 10 percent.

It is said that before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, in the Edo period, tens of thousands of terakoya institutions were spontaneously established by the people, which is a kind of school-like institution, and the main teaching is the classics of China and Japan, the way of Confucius and Mencius, although there is no natural science, but it has increased the literacy rate of the Japanese to more than 30 percent, and some statistics believe that it is 50 percent, in short, it is quite high, and the British of the same era is only 20 to 25 percent. It can be said that the spread of education has surpassed that of industrial countries such as Britain and has become a basis for the success of the Meiji Restoration.

China's folk education is also mainly based on private schools, but private schools either belong to big families or belong to some clans that attach importance to education, which can be said to be non-external and have the characteristics of cultural monopoly.

Jensen suggested that Zhu Jinglun complete the popularization of education by reorganizing private schools, and he also suggested that Zhu Jinglun needed to maintain some traditional Chinese cultural education, and he believed that all countries should not abandon their own traditions.

After the arrival of a large number of American teachers, Zhu Jinglun set up several schools in a concentrated manner, looking at the recruitment of scholars to study natural sciences, these schools are equivalent to normal schools, and after the first batch of students were trained, it was already the beginning of this year, and some scholars had basically mastered simple mathematics and geometry knowledge.

Zhu Jinglun wanted to send them to the pilot, but he tried it first in Xin'an, where his prestige was relatively high, and sent a teacher to the private school, and at the same time discussed with the private school to open them to nearby villages in the form of subsidies, so that all school-age children could come to study.

The old masters of the open private school accepted under persuasion, but when the teachers sent by Zhu Jinglun went down to teach mathematics and geometry, they began to make things difficult in every way, and at first squeezed the time of these teachers to teach, and soon a serious conflict broke out, they said that the teachers taught the root of heresy, and drove them back.

Reform without touching the old forces, and as much as possible universal education, these are the two things that Zhu Jinglun believes are extremely important, the former has been steadily implemented in the course of repeated changes, but he did not expect that the latter has problems, when there is no conflict with the old forces, the old tradition, and the contradiction between universal education, Zhu Jinglun does not know what way to adopt.

Whether to forcibly send people down, or to continue to persuade and educate softly, or to adopt another way of education, this is a matter of great consideration for command.

It's not that the old masters don't know how to settle accounts, it's not that they don't know the way of counting, they also have their own set of mathematical formulas, but they haven't seen those strange symbols, and the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are not clear, and they see that those teachers are writing symbols and drawing images, which are completely out of line with the sage books, they think that this is completely nonsense, and they have taught these postgraduates with their old qualifications, and these posterior teachers still don't listen, and bluntly say that these are Western studies and university questions.

What kind of fart university asks, in power is greater than the Analects? Can it be bigger than the Four Books and Five Classics?

In fact, there are only a few teachers who have conflicts, and these teachers are just to get a salary, and most of them do not recognize these mathematical and geometric knowledge, but it is not excluded that some people advocate Western learning, after all, the British have occupied Hong Kong for more than 20 years, and it is not surprising that there are one or two young people who are enthusiastic about and identify with Western culture.

As a result, there was a conflict with the thoughts of the old masters, and they did not stop when they were driven away, and when they heard that these teachers were all heresies learned from foreigners, they immediately contacted each other and directly drove all the teachers away.

Although it is a pity that this kind of thing happened so early, Zhu Jinglun knew that it was a matter of time, and ideological and cultural conflicts would definitely occur, and this was the real deep water area of his reform, in fact, the lowest cost.

What to do?

Patiently talk to a private school, tell them that the things of Westerners are also good, Confucius also said that the threesome must have my teacher, but the father and son insisted that the Chinese entry ceremony will be Yidi, the threesome must have my teacher, and the teacher will become a barbarian, they insist on not learning Yixue, and they are not allowed to learn Yi, and their children are not allowed to learn, and their students are not allowed to learn.

Zhu Jinglun remembered that Japan's Meiji Restoration and Germany's reforms after the Napoleonic War were also coercive, and Prussia would even fine parents who did not let their children go to school.

But now Zhu Jinglun can't even find a teacher for the children, he only teaches ordinary mathematics and geometry, if it is advanced to physics, chemistry, and astronomy and geography, I am afraid that the resistance will be greater.

Zhu Jinglun suppressed his anger and still negotiated with the old masters, he always insisted that this way of negotiation is the most civilized and the least sequelae, and any mandatory thing will eventually produce a backlash, if the people rebel because of the problem of education, it is a joke, don't think that this kind of thing will not happen, cultural and ideological problems must not be careless.

Just when Zhu Jinglun was about to lose patience as he had already said.

Suddenly, I heard an old master ask rhetorically, can the Western study still fail the imperial examination, and can it still give people fame?

He was suddenly like an initiation, and the spontaneous wave of non-governmental study abroad set off in the late Qing Dynasty was not because the Qing court gave international students all kinds of fame, and even directly obtained the fame of science or engineering scholars.

His mind was open, it seems that the key to traditional education is in the imperial examination, this is the right key to open education! (To be continued.) )