Chapter 34: Seeking Knowledge in the World (Seeking a Monthly Pass)
What was Order No. 1 issued after the establishment of the Northeast Governor's Office?
If it is really investigated, it is natural that there are different opinions. www.biquge.info At least on the surface, Order No. 1 issued after the establishment of the Governor's Office was to further confirm the freezing of land transactions and private reclamation, and even if this order was issued on the ship as early as the Governor's departure from Inchon to Lushun, and with the name "No. 1", it was naturally a matter of course.
But in reality?
In fact, long before the establishment of the Northeast Governor's Office, in view of the fact that the resistance of the Qing army in the Northeast had completely collapsed, in order to further consolidate the rule over the Northeast, in addition to signing the establishment of the whole civil affairs system, Tang Haoran immediately signed a series of education-related orders such as the establishment of the Northeast University, and the corresponding to the education order was that the Governor's Office confirmed that it would invest 40 million yuan in education in the next five years, and this does not even include technical education such as technical education based on specialized industrial schools, which is guaranteed by special funds from the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. As a supplement to education funding.
Compared with the land decree, which has not yet been systematically decreed, the "Compulsory Education Bill" is undoubtedly the first systematic decree issued by the Governor's Office, and the rapid completion of this decree is entirely due to the preparatory work in the early stage. As early as the Joseon Dynasty, Tang Haoran, as the commander of North Korea, instructed his staff and education officials to study and learn from modern Western education in order to plan the future of China's modern education system.
The so-called reference is actually a full reference to compulsory education in Germany, and the "Compulsory Education Bill" is determined to be guaranteed by compulsory education laws and regulations, according to the requirements of the law. Parents should send their children between the ages of 6 and 16 to school. Otherwise, the government will have to compel them to fulfil their obligations. It is to force the parents of school-age children to send their children to school.
At the same time as the enactment of the bill, education officials also formulated a complete set of modern education systems according to the needs of the development of examinations, and established compulsory education based on four years of primary school, which was implemented compulsorily, and according to the requirements of the decree, every teenager under the age of 16 must receive junior primary education. Moreover, women have the same right to education as men, and parents who refuse to send their children to school are punished accordingly. The police are responsible for supervising the implementation of compulsory education in order to ensure the smooth implementation of compulsory education.
After the end of the compulsory education stage, there are two years of senior primary school, which is different from the primary school, which implements semi-compulsory education, and the upper primary school is set up in the county and town, and those who pass the entrance examination must be enrolled in school unless there are special circumstances, and the cost of books and tuition and miscellaneous fees and the primary school are generally borne by the government, but it is not mandatory for all students to attend.
Compared with junior primary schools and high schools, middle schools are set up in counties. Compared with the nearly free "compulsory education" of the first two, secondary schools need to pay tuition. At the same time, the government provides scholarships to support poor children, so as to ensure that poor children can still study smoothly.
However, although the Unified Supervision Office in Korea approved this decree at that time, this decree only remained on paper, and the reason for this was no more than three reasons, one is the shortage of teachers, and the other is the lack of funds, both of which are of course the fundamental reasons restricting the development of education, but the most important reason is probably because it is North Korea, although in the propaganda of the Unified Supervision Office, North Korea is a part of China, and many Koreans also agree with this view, but within the Unified Supervision Office, it is still regarded as a "vassal state", not a part of China. Naturally, it is unlikely that the government will devote significant financial resources to investing in North Korea's education. In the end, what was established in Korea was only a "castrated" version of primary and secondary education, and the so-called "compulsory education" was only in name, and in fact the primary and secondary schools in North Korea were only set up out of the need to cultivate pro-Chinese sentiments, and most of the students in the schools were also children of the gentry rather than ordinary people.
However, the Northeast is different from Korea, which is the territory of China, and the people of the Northeast are the Chinese people, and in this case, the Governor's Office naturally had the ambition to create an epoch-making compulsory education system in the Northeast, but even with this ambition, the decree still exists only on paper - the promotion of education faces too many difficulties, first of all, there is a serious shortage of teachers, although the normal school was established as early as the period of the Unified Prison Office, but it has trained less than 1,000 elementary school teachers, even if the teachers from the DPRK are transferred to the Northeast, Only a few cities can build new primary schools, so how to provide enough teachers in the short term has become a top priority for the establishment of compulsory education.
The solution to the problem is that children and scholars may not be able to teach advanced mathematics, but with proper training and substitution of textbooks, they can barely teach modern scientific knowledge to elementary school students. Vigorously building normal schools to train much-needed teachers has become a top priority after the establishment of the Governor's Palace.
While the Governor's Office spent a lot of money and energy on the construction of normal schools, the construction of other colleges and universities, after all, the Governor's Office needed to establish an education system from primary school to higher education in Northeast China, unlike North Korea, which only needed industrial schools and a university.
To a large extent, it shows that the Governor's Office, more precisely, Tang Haoran, as the Governor, attaches great importance to education, but compared with the period of the Governor's Office, it seems that the Governor's Office does not pay much attention to the construction of higher education - universities. Although the establishment of key universities is the basis for cultivating senior management talents and scientific and technological talents, there is only one Northeastern University in the "Five-Year Education Plan of the Northeast Governor's Office", and even this Northeastern University has only one preparatory school.
Unlike normal schools, which have almost no age restrictions, Northeastern University Preparatory School has a strict age limit - 24 years old, and children under the age of 24, Xiucai and Juren can apply for Northeastern University Preparatory School. However, to the disappointment of many people, this preparatory school will not give special treatment because the applicant is a lifter, but anyone under the age of 24 has no intention of applying for the preparatory department of Northeastern University, and even there are not many talents under the age of 24 who are willing to apply. Among the more than 2,300 students in this preparatory school. More than 80% are children. Even if there are a few talents and people, I am afraid that they also have relatives and positions in the government or companies, so they naturally know the importance of this university, and more precisely, they know that studying in a university will directly determine their future, at least in the Northeast.
In the evening, the campus built by tens of thousands of laborers in three months outside the city of Mukden was full of "barbarian language" that was "dumb and ridiculous." Despite in class. When students learn foreign languages, they learn pronunciation rules step by step, but in fact, these students often choose the hard-to-memorize words they are more accustomed to, write words every day, and memorize texts every day in order to learn foreign languages.
The atmosphere of foreign languages is so strong that anyone who enters the preparatory school of Northeastern University will immediately have the illusion of being in a foreign country -- what the eye sees is a translation into English and German Confucian classics. I heard conversational voices in English or German, though the pronunciation seemed a bit stiff. It's hard to believe that these students have only been in school for a month!
"I just can't seem to learn English!"
Listening to the stiff or fluent English in his ears, Wang Yu's let out a sad scream. In fact, the most difficult thing for a student like him is to learn English, and after being admitted to this preparatory school, his classmates once secretly told him a word,
“judicature。”
The meaning of justice or judge derived from the word judge, Wang Yu really couldn't understand it, so he softly asked the classmate next to him for help.
"Law-Official"
The man whispered. He was talking about a judge, but when the Cantonese dialect reached Wang Yu's ears, he understood it as "faguan", which means taking office, so he wrote it. In this way, the judge becomes incumbent. And this reality that English is completely unqualified directly puts Wang Yu in a predicament.
As a preparatory school for Tohoku University, as a preparatory school for Tohoku University, it is necessary to ensure that graduates can smoothly adapt to the full foreign language environment of Tohoku University after entering Tohoku University. Therefore, as with the same language schools in China, the foreign language teaching of the preparatory school directly adopts the European and American models, and the school implements a strict examination and elimination system, holds regular periodic and monthly examinations, and has oral examinations every day, and the oral examination results are also used as the basis for students' usual grades. If a student fails in Chinese studies and passes Western studies, they can still graduate, but if they do not pass in Western studies, they will not be able to complete their studies even if their scores are high. At the same time, the Preparatory School also pays great attention to the creation of a foreign language atmosphere, and most of the lectures, debates, plays, and performances on campus are conducted in English and German, and all kinds of notices and publications are also written in English.
And of course. The textbooks of the preparatory school are imported directly from abroad, the textbooks are all in English or German, and the exam questions are naturally in English or German. After Wang Yu entered the school, he failed several subjects in a row, and he couldn't even read English textbooks, let alone study.
"In this school, people like me are unique......"
Wang Yu often shook his head and laughed at himself, but in addition to laughing at himself, he had to work hard to learn English. Compared to him, although most of them are like them, they only learn "ABC" after entering the school, but those students can speak English well, and they are able to have simple conversations by rote memorization. And what surprised him the most was that during the monthly exam, a classmate sitting next to him was actually writing the answer sheet in English.
For this kind of person, he can only bow down, Wang Yu thought so. It was a geography exam, and there was no need to write the answers in English, but the person could write faster in English than Wang Yu's Chinese characters. And what is there to compare with such a person?
But no matter whether it is compared or not, English always needs to be learned, and he has already hung a red line in this monthly exam, if he can't listen to classes normally by the end of this semester, then I'm afraid he will be eliminated from school.
"I'm going to trouble you again!"
Wang Yu was polite, but seeing that Wu Chaoxun seemed to be a little puzzled, he suddenly became depressed, and others still couldn't understand the English he said.
"I said, you have to throw away the Chinese character phonetics, you will definitely not be able to learn English like this!"
Although Wu Chaoxun is not fluent in Chinese, he speaks English very standardly, which has a lot to do with the fact that he studied at the church school in Guangzhou, which may not have taught him anything else, but at least taught him English, which made him quickly adapt to the study here.
"I know ......"
But if you really lose the attention to Chinese characters, then how to learn English, Wang Yu, who felt that he was big for a while, saw Wu Chaoxun spread out the textbook, and quickly sat down, opened the textbook and learned English with Wu Chaoxun's explanation, English can not be learned, at least in this school, this is a must-learn.
The process of learning English was boring, and although Wang Yu could memorize the Analects backwards, his memory became less brilliant when he encountered English, so that he could only recite word by word like an enlightened child.
"Brother Jimin, have you thought about what you want to do after graduation one day?"
After making up for two hours of class, Wu Chaoxun asked casually during the break.
"Hey!"
Wang Yu was silent for a moment, then looked at the English textbook in front of him, and suddenly said loudly.
"I want to compile Chinese textbooks, this is true, we are here at China's Northeastern University, and the textbooks used are actually British, how can this work, we must compile Chinese textbooks......"
For Wang Yu, who is deeply affected by foreign language textbooks, at this moment he seems to have found his goal, that is, to write Chinese's own university textbooks.
"In this case, then you have to become a professor first, we use foreign language textbooks because there are no Chinese speaking professors in the school!"
Although he is a few years younger than Wang Yu, Wu Chaoxun seems to know the school better. What's the point of having even a dozen professors of Japanese descent? In this university, there are still mainly Western professors.
"Brother Jimin, your idea is very good, Chinese universities can't always use English and German to teach, they always need their own teaching materials! However, to make this happen, you still have to learn English well and, if possible, study abroad......"
Studying abroad, in Wu Chaoxun's view, this is the real right way, after all, compared with the newly established Northeastern University, foreign universities have a better foundation, and there are many famous teachers, so you can learn more things there.
"Then we will be able to bring back to China the best things from foreign universities!"
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