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Chapter 406 Education

"Haha...... Don't talk about your military topics yet, I'm sure you know the purpose of my visit this time.

Li Dingyi even said: "What shocked me the most about Zhang Zuolin was his '40% financial expenditure on education'." After graduating from Peking University, she served as the principal of Jilin No. 6 Middle School, and in order to make a living, she taught at Jilin Women's Normal School and Jilin University.

Many people may not know who Li Dingyi is, but many people will know his son. That is Li Ao, who once squatted in the Wanwan National Government Prison!

And Zhang Zuolin's attention and investment in education is undoubtedly the biggest person in the Republic of China!

On October 27, 1916, Zhang Zuolin issued a resolution of the Provincial Education Council to all counties. The resolution pointed out that "China has been studying for more than ten years, and there are tens of millions of graduates. The outstanding ones, Heyao Lilu, the mediocre ones or the coaching whip, or the mediocre scholars, the rest have no jobs to operate, and the school has one more graduate students, that is, the country has an additional unemployed vagrant, a poor family, and a mocking society. The main reason for this is that school education is pure empty talk, which has led to the accumulation of defects that are almost irretrievable. ”

He also said that "if China wants to become rich and strong, it must be based on occupation, and it is imperative that all schools add vocational education." ”

The first measure taken by Zhang Zuolin was to strengthen vocational education in his spare time and integrate vocational education into general education. To this end, on December 2, 1917, he issued a special instruction to all provincial schools and schools, emphasizing the importance of practicality in school education.

He even sent a letter requesting that "all primary and secondary schools for boys and girls should pay attention to pragmatism in the courses of drawing, handicrafts, and arithmetic without focusing on aesthetics" so that students can develop in an all-round way.

He also sent people to investigate the situation of vocational education in the province to understand what kind of talents are needed in each locality and what kind of occupations are most popular, so as to formulate standards for the implementation of vocational education. Zhang Zuolin also designated a special fund for vocational schools to collect donations from kindergartens and use them as special funds, so that the development of education in Fengxian Province has a reliable economic guarantee.

Under the repeated urging of Zhang Zuolin, all localities have stepped up preparations for the construction of vocational schools!

And most of them studied in the United States and graduated from some famous universities in the United States, such as: Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, etc.!

The remaining 40 have graduated from some well-known institutions of higher learning in China, such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Tongji University, etc., even if they have not been "gilded" abroad. The faculty lineup is far from being comparable to that of other universities!

By the end of the 1920s, Northeastern University was the university with the largest number of students in China, with 300 professors and 3,000 students, while Peking University only had 2,000 students at that time! This shows the grand occasion of the University of Tokyo!

Sponsoring to study abroad is also one of Zhang Zuolin's grand events!

In the summer of 1916, Zhang Zuolin ordered a survey of international students in 20 counties in Fengtian Province to see how many students were sent by Fengtian Province.

When he found out that there were only 68 people studying in Japan in the entire Feng Province, Zhang Zuolin shook his head, this is too little, how can it support the development of Northeast China?! It's not enough!

Therefore, in June and December 1917, Zhang Zuolin sent two groups of publicly-funded students to study at the Japanese Higher Preparatory School. These international students are really angry with Zhang Zuolin! Two years later, 26 students were admitted to Japanese government schools with excellent results, which was the second highest in the country at that time!

By 1918, just two years later, the number of students studying in Japan in Feng Province had more than doubled to more than 150. By 1925, 232 students from Mukden Province had studied abroad.

In order to facilitate the grasp of the situation of international students, Zhang Zuolin also sent experienced managers to Japan to manage international students, and formulated the "16 Interim Rules for the Management of Students in Japan in Fengtian Province," which must be observed.

In 1919, when prices soared in Japan, students studying in Japan encountered some difficulties in their lives, in order to make students feel at ease to study, Zhang Zuolin ordered an increase in the amount of tuition fees for publicly-funded students, and for self-financed students, the Department of Education formulated the "Measures for Rewarding Self-financed Students in Japan" and "Regulations for Rewarding Self-financed Specialized Universities in Japan" and other provisions ().

In the regulations, self-financed students who are admitted to the specialized universities designated by the province and study the designated disciplines will be given a rated incentive amount, and the amount of the award will be divided into three classes, such as A, B, and C, according to the degree of discipline in the school, the local living conditions, and the results of the academic year, and the daily allowance will be 600, 500, and 400 yuan per year. This may be the first scholarship system in China.

Interestingly, it was Zhang Dashuai, who was born with a beard, who created this scholarship system.

In later generations, students in normal colleges were exempted from tuition fees and received monthly subsidies.

But few people know that as early as Zhang Zuolin's time, Fengtian Normal School was exempt from tuition fees, and also paid for food, which was paid by the Fengtian provincial government.

The Fengtian Normal School not only has three free meals, but the standard is not low.

For example, in Fengtian Provincial No. 1 Normal School, students eat rice porridge and pickles for breakfast; At noon, rice, four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables; Dinner is four dishes and one soup, all of which are vegetarian dishes.

On Saturdays, lunch was improved, with altar meat, mushu meat, roasted yellow croaker, stewed sea cucumber, etc. In addition, such as Shenyang Higher Normal School, the food is also very rich. And these are all strictly supported by Zhang Zuolin.

It is precisely because of this that when the news of Zhang Zuolin's burial came out during the puppet Manchurian period in history, the squire of Zhang Zuolin's hometown Haicheng heard that Zhang Zuolin was going to be buried, and jointly wrote a letter requesting that Zhang Zuolin be buried in Haicheng.

And Zhang Zuolin's old subordinates in Fengtian also came forward one after another, requesting that Zhang Zuolin be buried in the completed Marshal Forest. The newspapers also published some appeal articles, calling on the puppet Manchukuo authorities to bury Zhang Zuolin?

Zhang Zuolin's burial has attracted the attention of so many people, and there is a reason for it! If he hadn't acted like this during his lifetime, his son would have fled to Kannai six years after his death, why would he pay so much attention?! Will so many people be willing to take the risk of posting a message of remembrance, or even calling for him?!