Chapter 230: Gun and Pen
"The Nation is Restored, Waste Waiting to Be Rebuilt, Which Is More Important in Education and Industry"
Although it is just an ordinary examination question, but this question is for the whole nation, initially this question is only the examination question of Nanjing National Higher Normal University, but in the end this question is still from the examination room to the society, in the society after the recovery of a lot of controversy, and the root of this controversy is actually caused by the competition between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce within the ruling axe, and finally under the controversy of the "education mastermind" and "real owner", this controversy was ended.
If there is one thing that the greatest effect of the controversy is, it is that the people of the country have begun to face up to modern education, and "the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War was decided in front of the podium." "The defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War has been doomed since the beginning of the education of this university! "It may be from the controversy that the education power has been recognized by the people.
The same normal school is free of tuition, room and board, and can serve as a teacher's enrollment advertisement after graduation, and the teacher's salary is guaranteed by the county, province, and central government, which also makes many people believe that this may be a good career to make a living, not to mention that "the teacher is respected", and it is not disgraceful to be a teacher.
Although some people still dream of the reopening of the imperial examination in the new dynasty, for the vast majority of people, since the liberation, they have first recruited "civil servants" for examinations, and then used civil servants to induce them to read those "arithmetic, physics, chemistry, history, geography, zoology and zoology, and foreign languages" written in twists and turns. Although the dream of the imperial examination did not wake up in an instant. But it also completely ruined most people's dream of "being a Tian Shelang and ascending to Tianzitang at dusk".
Although it is said that some scholars and doctors did not die of the luck of reading the "Four Books and Five Classics" and fishing for "cloth and clothes", the reality is always cruel, the compilation of the Ministry of Education in the newspaper, the recruitment of civil servants, and the reality of "not abandoning and abandoning", although it makes the people who think they are abandoned by the state become a little lost and depressed, but correspondingly, the state still shows these people a way, teachers, for the vast majority of poor scholars, teachers have become their last livelihood.
Although some of the scholars and doctors who were candidates for officials in the former dynasty are still waiting for the new dynasty to open their grace and allow the former dynasty to make up for the officials, they also have to learn new studies in the face of the new studies that the new dynasty attaches importance to, while more poor scholars do not have their leisure, and in order to make a living, they have devoted themselves to the normal accelerated schools established by various counties and prefectures, and some of them have applied for the provincial and city-run half-year preparatory department, five-year higher normal colleges.
National Nanjing Normal University, at the foot of the Purple Mountain outside Nanjing, is led by the National Nanjing University of Science and Technology, with its back to the lush Purple Mountain. The surrounding nature is stunning. From the vicinity of the school, you can see the rumbling roar of the train running on the Ma'anshan-Nanjing railway, the smoke and dust flying in the sky, the endless "click" sound, and the long steam lingering in the nose, which seems to carry the breath of the times. It's just that the railway extending from Ma'anshan has become a dead-end road at Guanghuamen Station.
National Nanjing Normal University is the earliest university in Nanjing to enroll students and put into use, its scale, faculty strength and equipment, are all priority guarantees, and even the ruling axe also put forward the requirement of "the best talents go to the normal university", which shows that the ruling axe attaches great importance to the "foundation of group learning" of teacher education and the country's education construction.
Like any university sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the National Nanjing Normal University's constitution stipulates that the educational policy "in addition to the educational objectives set by the Ministry of Education, the latest humanism" is "moral practice," "physical activity," and "social life," and "all professors should promote autonominaism," with strong emphasis on the comprehensive cultivation of personality and knowledge. The school has hired a group of knowledgeable, progressive and moral teachers from the society for teaching.
Nearly 4,000 students from various provinces will live and study in temporary wooden houses to begin their study career in the next five and a half years.
At this time, the students, who are of all ages, are wearing black student uniforms and standing in square formations in groups, where they will undergo a month of military training before the start of school, which is a part of the education regulations formulated by the Ministry of Education.
“…… Don't think that military training is nothing more than a group of people standing in line on the field facing the sun for half an hour,"
Military instructors with rifles shouted loudly in front of the students.
"After you leave school, you will be responsible for educating your children, and your responsibility is far greater than any other study, education is strong, education is strong, education is strong, and education can also harm the country!"
The military instructors, who were even younger than many of them, were in their teens or even twenty years old, and their tone was very serious.
"Now, can any of you tell why the Ministry of Education has formulated that China's education should be based on military and national education!"
Looking around at the cadets in front of him, the military instructor walked up to one of the cadets and stared him in the eyes.
"You answer!"
"Report to the instructor, our country is under pressure from its neighbors and is desperate to defend itself, and it is difficult to recover the national power that has been lost over the years without relying on force. The intention is to survive and the people are strong, and it is not feasible without military and national education! ”
Raising his chin slightly, Liang Zhizhi answered the instructor's question loudly, he knew that he had to answer the instructor's question in the loudest voice, otherwise he would be reprimanded.
"Excellent! You come and go! ”
"Report to the instructor, the military and national education lies in cultivating the national martial spirit and removing the necessity of slave education in the two hundred and sixty years of slavery in the Manchu Qing Dynasty!"
"You answer!"
"The history of mankind is the history of racial competition and elimination, survival competition, survival of the fittest is not without throughout the history of mankind, our nation was invaded by the Taixi tribes, if we do not rise up to the military and national education, restore the thousand-year-old martial spirit of our nation, and restore the spirit of our nation's soldiers, he said that our country will fall into the realm of national extinction, such as India, Nanyang, such as eliminated by history!"
…… The trainees replied, and the instructor nodded, military and national education is the outline of the guidelines formulated by the Ministry of Education. Resolutely march to the military state to protect the survival of the nation. It is precisely because of this that the crisis of the nation and the responsibility of society prompted the Ministry of Education to formulate the policy of taking military and national education as the foundation of Chinese education, with the intention of rebuilding the nation's martial spirit and the spirit of soldiers through military and national education.
"What is the spirit of a scholar!"
"The conditions for the spiritual belief of a scholar can be obtained by more than ten ends. First, it is said that the reputation of the country is always the most important, and those who damage the reputation of the country cannot bear it at the moment. First, those who say that the state's negotiations are detrimental to the rights of the state will fight to the death and will not be afraid of the strong. Whoever kills himself and benefits the country will die without hesitation or fear. If one's own reputation is tarnished or scorned by others, he cannot bear it, but he refuses to judge himself for short-sightedness, refuses to take revenge for his anger, and dies in the affairs of the state to restore his reputation as a samurai. One is to always be faithful and obedient to the elders he respects. Although, those whose actions are detrimental to the country's plan or reputation, even if they are respected by their superiors, often resist the blame and refuse to pretend. After the matter was decided, he refused to forgive himself for the sins he had committed, and often died for it. If you are guilty, you will not escape punishment. Once it is said that the residence is a job, he will be loyal to his duty, and often sacrifice his body and even all his love to die in his duty. It is said that if a friend is in a hurry to help him, he often sacrifices his life and all his interests to save him. One said that although the urgency of others may not be related to me, and there is no need for me, but those who think that the great righteousness lies and the overall situation is related to it, they will also take it upon themselves, and the success will not be their own work. One is said to work with others, and one death can keep secrets, and those who help the establishment of their affairs will die without skimpiness and fear. Death does not tire others. One said that he died in the name of sincerity. First, it is said that the defeat would rather die than be a prisoner...... In other words, the country is more important than life, friends are more important than life, duty is more important than life, promise is more important than life, enmity is more important than life, honor is more important than life, and morality is more important than life, which is the most noble and pure ideal in the minds of our ancestors......"
The "spirit of the scholar" that the students who answered the questions of the chief struck the hearts of the people like drumsticks. Even these scholars who have no strength to fight and are useless also have an indescribable excitement at this time, and they only feel that their blood is full of anger, as if they have seen the scene of the pre-Qin people being a country, if everyone is like this, the country will be strong.
This is the belief of the "Chinese Soldiers" in Liang Qichao's new book, which is his "history of China, the history of non-martial arts" in the West and the book of China; Stimulated by the contempt of the Chinese nation, the nation that does not fight for military force, with indignation in his heart, he wrote a book a month ago, and was immediately funded by the ruling axe in commercial publishing, and the words of more than 5,000 words are reflections and shouts.
The disappearance of martial spirit and martial virtue is the greatest pain in China since the Qin and Han dynasties, and Liang Qichao selected more than 70 characters with the spirit of Chinese scholars in the book to represent the people, basically concentrated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Therefore, in such a historical environment, from the temple to the people, there is a spirit of "martial arts" and a kind of "martial virtue" worthy of respect.
Originally, the final title of the book was "The Way of the Chinese Bushido", but after Chen Moran read it, it was renamed "The Warrior of China", in his words, the Bushido itself was plagiarized from China, and the "loyalty, faithfulness, honesty, integrity, perseverance, simplicity, courage, etiquette, honesty, and etiquette" that the Bushido believed in were all ancient Chinese traditions, and now the only thing China needs to do is to re-promote the spirit of the warriors.
"For hundreds of years, the lack of the spirit of the scholar will inevitably lead to the first result: those who know dare not groan, and those who do not know do not know the pain; Second, knowing the danger of the country, it is still possible to praise peace; Knowing the [***] of the officials, it is still possible to flatter and call civilization; The innocence of those who know it can be falsely accused and punished...... Only people who have both civil and military skills can have a frank and bright personality, and a society with both civil and military skills is a frank and bright society. The emphasis on literature and morality makes humanity weak, soft, and insidious, and only knows how to use scheming, deceit, and lose its upright demeanor, and the despicable darkness of all aspects of Chinese society over the past 2,000 years is the product of the deformed development of literature and morality. ”
As the ruling axe, Chen Moran not only funded the printing of this book and distributed it to officials and the army, but even specially designated it to be compiled into the curriculum, "Promote the spirit of scholars with education!" Naturally, as China's highest normal school, Nanjing National Normal University naturally needs to learn the spirit of scholars, and finally they teach it to their students, and use martial arts and martial virtues to change the thousand-year-old disease of this nation, which is exactly what Chen Moran wants.
Just like this, nearly 4,000 students of Nanjing National Normal University, after the beginning of the semester, first go through a half-year preparatory study, in addition to modern numbers, physics and chemistry, geography, history, the most important lesson is military training, first to turn them into soldiers, then teachers.
When a country is faced with the danger of life and death, no one will think about the disadvantages of doing so, what will happen in the future, and what is more important than the survival of the nation? If even the state and nation do not exist, then is there still capital to talk about anything else? The top-down unanimous surname has made Chinese education after the liberation embark on a completely different educational path from other countries from the very beginning.
Looking at the students who were conducting military training on the field, Zhang Baixi's brows wrinkled from time to time, although the capital was broken and not surrendered, but Nanjing pardoned him, just because he made a certain contribution to education, and even the Ministry of Education in Nanjing gave him a letter of appointment, inviting him to Nanjing to teach Chinese culture, and in front of this Chinese culture, he himself is also a student.
In the past, people often said that "repaying grievances with virtue is virtue", but now they emphasize that "repaying grievances with virtue is how to repay virtue." Repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay virtue with virtue. Although the current education emphasizes national studies and Confucianism, it is the martial god of the pre-Qin period, and the spirit of "scholars" is emphasized, and life can be abandoned to do things that must die. It is important to have the creed of "a soldier dies for his confidant" and "a soldier can be killed but not humiliated", and advocates "loyalty" and "faithfulness" as personal standards.
"The three armies can win the commandery, but the horseman can't win the ambition!"
Thinking about the class he was going to take, Zhang Baixi shook his head helplessly, no matter what, this bad Chinese culture course will always be taught, and he must talk about the "spirit of scholars" in the classroom, and rebuild the nation that "everyone is a scholar" that the ruling government hopes for through education.
"The idea is good, but ......"
Sighing softly in his heart, Zhang Baixi's feet were walking towards the classroom that could not be described as simple, and behind him, there were bursts of roars.
"What is this?"
The training instructor raised the rifle in his hand in his left hand.
"Rifle!"
"What is this?"
"Pen!"
Loud shouts echoed across the field, and the cadets stared at the guns and pens in the instructors' hands, they knew what this meant, unlike ordinary universities, the uniform cockades of normal schools were the intersection of guns and pens.
"What is the combination of the two?"
"The foundation of the country, the foundation of a strong country!"
Listening to the shouts of the students, the instructor nodded with satisfaction, iron and blood are the foundation of the country, and education is the foundation of a strong country, the two complement each other and are indispensable!
"Albert? Einstein! ”
Closing the professor file in his hand, Chen Moran had an incredible look on his face, and even shook his head from time to time, Einstein is in China! He is also a lecturer at Dongxu University.
There is a discovery that is more shocking than this one.
Seeing the look of the ruling party, Cai Yuanpei's heart was beating a drum, and he was responsible for the nearly 500 foreign professors and lecturers recruited by Dongxu University.
"In power, when we recruit professors abroad, although we offer high salaries, only a few really well-known professors and scholars are willing to come to China, and these people are all carefully selected, many of them are in Europe and the United States, and they may not have the qualifications of professors, but for us, they ......."
"Compared with the first-class institutions of higher learning in Europe and the United States, first-class professors often do not accept the letter of appointment from Dongxu University, which makes Dongxu have to put down the requirements, although the bottom requirements, but the current professors and lecturers of Dongxu, most of them have real learning, most of them are recommended by famous teachers, and we have signed contracts with them ranging from five to ten years." ”
"Heqing, I know what you said! There is no need to have any worries, how can there be no phoenix nest to attract the phoenix, this Dongxu University is created, and it is not easy to hire these professors and lecturers. ”
Lighting a cigarette, Chen Moran was silent for a while.
"But it's not bad to have nothing, a blank piece of paper is easy to paint! These professors and lecturers may not be taken seriously abroad, but here we can give them ample space and support to engage in teaching and research. This is true for students, as well as for professors and lecturers, and who can say that under the right conditions, there will not be a few professors we have brought in who will influence the world's universities? ”
In front of Cai Yuanpei, of course Chen Moran would not say this Albert? Albert Einstein will be the most famous scientist of the twentieth century, and his research will change the whole world, after all, he is only a young man in his twenties, and he is not even qualified to be a university lecturer, but what about the future? As long as there is enough space for him.
"Twenty years, I have said that the key to China's prosperity and strength in the next twenty years, and in these twenty years, education is the top priority to achieve this goal.
As he spoke, Chen Moran tapped Einstein's file on the table with his fingers, and then looked up at Cai Yuanpei.
"Maybe in twenty years, this person will become a scientist admired by the whole world, and the same Dongxu may also become the most famous science and engineering institution in the world, and this is what we need to do, use twenty years of education to change this country, within one year, I can train a million strong army, but for this country, twenty years can cultivate a generation,"
Chen Moran's tone suddenly became serious, and his expression also looked extremely serious.
"Heqing, the responsibility on your shoulders is far greater than mine!"
(To be continued)