Chapter 219: Academic Center: Compulsory Education
What Dai Yan wants to do, he will inevitably do. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Dai Yan was not reckless in the idea of implementing compulsory education in the entire Taoqiu, he summoned the chiefs of all the districts in Taoqiu back, and first solicited everyone's opinions on this matter.
In today's Taoqiu, there are seven districts in the city. In addition to the southeast, northwest, and northwest districts in Taoqiu City and the original riverside area, new outer districts near the south and west cities have also been added, as well as a new industrial area on the bank of Heze. Of course, Dai Yan is the president of the entire Taoqiu University, and it belongs to the direct jurisdiction of the Yi Prefecture and does not belong to any district.
As soon as compulsory education was proposed, the people of the Mo family and the peasant family were still excited! As a school representing the interests of the common people at the bottom, they have always pursued equality between the common people and the nobility. However, they know very well that in today's world, the scholars as the lowest nobles may still rise, while the common people at the bottom have no such opportunity at all!
The reason for this is the way in which knowledge is transmitted. The formation of the aristocracy actually originated from the aristocracy's monopoly on knowledge! If this monopoly can be broken through compulsory education for all, then the common people at the bottom can really rise!
Regarding the suggestion of compulsory education, the Yang Zhu School, as a representative of the merchant class, wisely kept silent on this issue, although it was not as strong as Nongmo, but after all, it was not opposed!
Because such measures can enhance the strength of businessmen in the world! Although the strength of the merchant in today's Taoqiu is extraordinary, and he can almost be regarded as the ruling class of Taoqiu, but for the world, the strength of the merchant is still too weak!
Therefore, this represents a tacit consensus among the three schools of thought of industry, agriculture, and commerce. Fortunately, there was no Confucianism in Taoqiu, and if Taoqiu had a Confucian school that represented the interests of scholars and the aristocracy, the compulsory education law would not have been able to gain the support of the academic community soon!
After reaching an agreement, Dai Yan asked the district chiefs to start counting all the minor residents in Taoqiu, from 6 to 12 years old, to see how much it would cost to implement compulsory education in Taoqiu.
The results made Dai Yan extremely frustrated! There are more than 320,000 registered people in Taoqiu, and about 50,000 people between the ages of 6 and 12. For Dai Yan, since it is compulsory education and needs to be implemented by the whole people, it can only be implemented as a welfare.
He doesn't expect to complete the 9 or even 12 years of compulsory education in one step, in the initial stage, he can handle a 6-year compulsory primary school education is very good!
However, even such a cost is unbearable for Dai Yan. Dai Yan roughly calculated the cost, if an ordinary student is enrolled, in just one year, each student will spend almost 200 yuan in costs! And the primary education of 50,000 people will cost 10 million yuan every year!
What does 10 million money mean to Dai Yan? Dai Yan has the most lucrative income in his hands, and it is also the most stable source of income - Taoqiu grain futures market, and the stable handling fee for a year is only 12 million yuan! And Dai Yan invested in the establishment of an entire Taoqiu University, but it only cost 20 million yuan, and the other 30 million money was still made up from businessmen!
These expenses are just software investments in student education. If you take into account the hardware investment of primary schools, based on the calculation of 2,500 students in a primary school, at least 20 schools will be built in the entire Taoqiu! How much does this cost?
And this statistic only counts all the registered population in the entire Taoqiu. If you add in the continuous influx of people from all over the country to Taoqiu, I am afraid that the proportion of the underage population will further expand, and the amount of money will be even more!
Such a huge debt is beyond the current Taoqiu, so he immediately thought of sacrificing the interests of some people!
At first, he thought of sacrificing the woman's interests. Because in Dai Yan's view, not to mention that there has been a tradition of patriarchy since ancient times, most of the talents cultivated by compulsory education also have to directly enter the army, factories and even major commercial houses, and most of these jobs are not suitable for women in this era! If there is no pressure from women, the cost of compulsory education can be reduced by half immediately, which is within the range of Dai Yan's bearing.
Such an idea, not to mention Dai Yan's own hobby, is purely the natural reaction of a politician.
However, there is a saying that the plan can't catch up with the changes, and Dai Yan's big strokes in Taoqiu one after another have indeed brought some different changes to the world.
Half a year after the opening of Taoqiu University, an incident occurred that shocked the entire Taoqiu University. A woman disguised herself as a man, passed a rigorous examination, entered Taoqiu University, and worshiped under the name of Hui Shi, the ancestor of the famous family, and became the most proud disciple Hui Shi has received over the years!
This is a nobleman named Ji Hu, who does have an extraordinary bearing that is different from ordinary people, arguing with others, elegant and unusually sharp, often speaking to her people who are not reasonable, and she has become a rising star in the entire Taoqiu University!
However, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and those who are poor by her arguments naturally refuse to give in, so they go around to find her flaws. In this way, the identity of this Ji Fox's woman was revealed by the students of Taoqiu University!
After Ji Hu's identity as a woman was revealed, she didn't feel guilty at all, and immediately started to beat the few people who exposed her identity to the ground!
These people didn't dare to provoke Ji Hu on the surface, so they began to instigate the students of the entire Taoqiu University, hoping that everyone would unite to drive Ji Hu out! For them, such a thing is a matter of course: for the nobles of China, only men are qualified to practice martial arts and swords, and to be eligible for education! As for women, it's good to raise children at home, didn't Confucius say it very clearly: only women and villains are difficult to raise! Confucius, the first great educator in the whole of China, who taught 3,000 disciples, has never accepted a female disciple, what qualifications does this woman named Jihu have to enter a sacred place like Taoqiu University, which is adjacent to scholarship and knowledge!
Among them, the more obscene and shady people believe that this woman named Ji Hu has no qualifications for the surname Ji at all, and she is not worthy of being called Ji Hu at all, but should be renamed Fox Ji! She should have appeared more in the Daughters of Taoqiu, not in this sacred Taoqiu University!
Ji Hu was not afraid of such a challenge, and she still used her elegant tone to debate with the people who wanted to drive him out of Taoqiu University: "In the entire Taoqiu University, is there any school rule that restricts girls from entering the school to learn knowledge?" I once listened to a lecturer at the Academy of Sciences, and he mentioned that not only humans are divided into male and female, but animals are divided into male and female, and even the flowers of plants are male and female! It can be seen that both men and women are products of the Tao of Heaven, and what men can do, women can do the same! Men can enjoy the teachings of famous teachers, and so can women! ”
An opposing student asked Ji Hu with a somewhat mocking face: "We learn knowledge in the hope that it can be useful in the future and make contributions." What are you doing as a woman, learning so much? Isn't it because you want to learn the tricks of pleasing men from college, or how to compete for favor? ”
Such words made Ji Hu extremely angry, and she bluntly retorted: "Who said that women can't make meritorious contributions!" At that time, the woman was the wife of the Shang king Wuding, and she also personally led 3,000 people, traveled to 10,000, and called for the deeds of Qiang! And now the northern Weiguo, when the northern Rongdi annihilated the country, if it weren't for the princess of the Weiguo, Mrs. Xu Mu, personally rushed to the land of Taoqiu, the capital of the Cao State back then, to make a song of carriage, to appease the remnants of the Weiguo for training, and to ask for help from the overlord Qi Huan Gong at that time, the Weiguo may exist now? These characters who have been around for a long time, you may not care, so now Taoqiu's main mother, the former princess of Zhao State, when Zhao State was besieged by powerful countries on all sides, resolutely stepped forward, faced the tiger and wolf soldiers of the Qin State in the west, and annihilated 10,000 Qin State warriors, such a feat, how many men in the world could do it? I just want to tell you: as a woman with half of the world's population, she can also hold up half the sky! ”
Subsequently, this Ji Hu protested to the president of Taoqiu University, directly asking whether Taoqiu University has a female ban on women!
Such a situation made Dai Yan, the first principal, very embarrassed. In the face of fierce public opinion in the entire Taoqiu University, he did not reply to Ji Hu positively at the beginning, but launched a debate in the entire Taoqiu University to discuss whether women have the right to education!
In such a debate, the lecturers and professors were very wise not to open their mouths, and let the students debate to come up with a result. Among the students, although there are students with strong ideas of male superiority and inferiority, they strongly oppose Ji Hu going to college, but there are also a large number of students who follow Ji Hu and recognize her ideas, believing that women also have the right to go to college. And those who agree with Ji Hu even include Guiguzi's newly acquired disciples: Su Qin!
After an impasse was formed among Tao Qiu's students, the balance was broken from Tao Qiu's family. Because Ji Hu praised Zhao Xue, this princess of Zhao has always had a very good impression of her, so Dai Yan was affected by a steady stream of pillow wind at home!
In addition, Dai Yan is a modern person after all, coming from a society where men and women are equal, and he has also had a senior sister and a junior sister, how can he really oppose women going to college? Therefore, after the stalemate of the students' forces, he stood up and gave a speech to the students, saying: "There is no ban on women in the university, and if there are female students who take the exam during the recruitment period, of course we will admit it." If the results are appropriate, of course we will be allowed to enter. There was no ban on women at Taoqiu University before, and there will be no ban on women now and even in the future! ”
With Dai Yan's capacity as the lord of Taoqiu, coupled with the president of Taoqiu University, this commitment immediately turned the argument between the two sides into a one-sided victory! Ji Hu's side quickly won the victory!
And after Dai Yan made a promise, Ji Hu's identity was quickly dug up and reported to Dai Yan's ears. This Ji Hu is a real nobleman. She is the youngest daughter of Zhou Tianzi Ji Bian, the real princess of the Zhou room!
In terms of identity and bloodline, Dai Yan's identity as the son of Song Guo is definitely not as good as this Princess Jihu! And the identity of this princess Jihu is also extremely ingenious. She was supposed to marry Ji Ping, the current prince of Yan Kingdom, as a concubine, but she was captured by bandits on the way to get married, and finally disappeared without a trace! And it is quite strange that she was able to suddenly appear in Taoqiu and enter Taoqiu University to study!
Ji Hu did not reveal the identity of the princess of the Zhou family, and Dai Yan did not debunk her intentions, so she stayed at Taoqiu University to continue her studies.
And after liberalizing the right of women in universities to receive education, Dai Yan can no longer sacrifice the right of underage women to receive education!