In the broad understanding of the development of world civilization, there is still a consensus among different opinions, that is, the role of several major regional countries in the stage of gravity for the progress of world civilization.

From 3000 BC to 1500 BC, Egypt created the world's first-class civilization at that time. From 1500 B.C. to A.D., the Middle East was the biggest promoter and connector of Eurasian civilization. From the first year of the first century to 1500 AD, the Eastern Empire became the largest contributor to world civilization; After 1500 AD, Western Europe, which entered the transition period of modern civilization, took over the baton of the progress of world civilization, and then occupied almost ninety percent of the scientific and technological and cultural output.

However, the focus of civilization in these stages can clearly see a faint weight of civilization contribution, that is, the period from the first year of the Common Era to 1500 A.D. when the Eastern civilization dominated, which became the largest material library and driving force for the explosion of modern science and technology in the West. The achievements of the Oriental scientific and technological civilization based on the inheritance and application of experience as the specific expression of the xiàn model have established an application foundation for the systematic theory and educational development of modern science and technology.

In the East, the "official-oriented" philosophy of oriental elite education, with "power worship" as the core of educational ethics, has lasted unchanged for thousands of years, and has drawn a big peak in this long river of history.

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The outgoing year of 1629 was the first harvest year after the implementation of the "first edition" of the Chinese American education policy.

Recruitment for the Wehrmacht in the autumn has ended, and a third of the recruits are the latest young people to grow since the mass immigration of 1622. These young men, who first immigrated to China and have grown up to become young soldiers, the worst of whom have at least three years of formal education, have displayed a temperament that is very different from that of their elders.

In the factory, the number of graduates who have left the national secondary vocational school to work this year has exceeded 500, and most of them are around 20 years old. their ability to work. It can already be comparable to the European junior and intermediate technicians who have been vigorously introduced, and the basic theoretical knowledge is even higher than the latter, and the growth rate and potential are far from being comparable to the latter.

In addition to the National Secondary Vocational School, which was founded in 1624, higher vocational education was also introduced as early as 1626, and three higher vocational education institutions, including the "Manchester City Marine Vocational College", "Manchester Agricultural College", and "Long Island Engineering and Technology College", have been in operation for three years, and those who graduate from here will directly have the ability to have intermediate titles or above.

However, it is a small number of middle and higher vocational talents to be cultivated from scratch, so a large number of workers with active brains in all walks of life are selected by various enterprises and recommended to apply for intermediate or higher vocational colleges.

According to a joint education plan of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry and the Ministry of Culture and Education, all skilled workers and skilled workers who have graduated from state secondary vocational schools must have completed five years of service. You are eligible to go back to school for another year, and then you can get the title of intermediate technician.

Those who have the title of intermediate technician and have worked for more than ten years are eligible to enter the higher vocational college for further study for two more years, and can obtain the title of senior technician after graduation. Nationals with the title of senior technician will enjoy the state's on-the-job subsidy.

Those who have the title of senior technician and have worked for more than 15 years can apply for the senior advanced course of the higher vocational college for two years. So as to step into the ranks of engineers. From assistant engineers, intermediate engineers to senior engineers, they can enjoy the lifelong talent allowance of the State Science and Technology Commission.

Behind this assembly-line-like large-scale vocational education policy is the "Labor and Occupation Subsidy Law", which was passed by the National Assembly last year. For the 17th-century craftsmen who once toiled all day in the workshop and did not see the light of day, it was an unprecedented social status and status recognition.

From 1626. Higher education in Huamei has taken two lines, with comprehensive universities and higher vocational education attaching equal importance. Therefore, this year, the first batch of college students in the country also walked out of the school gate. Whether it is the Ivy League colleges and universities, which have been in operation for a long time, or the National University of Manchuria. The first batch of 1629 college students in various majors to enjoy higher education are only in their early 100s, and in terms of actual education, they are at most equivalent to high school graduates in later generations. But they will be the starting seeds for the country's modern education.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Culture and Education, the majors of the National University of Mancheng are still basically engineering, and a new comprehensive university broke ground in the beautiful Qingcheng City, the capital of Haizhou, in early 1629, and will conduct examinations in the summer of 1630.

The name of Haizhou's first state university has been decided, it will be called "Fudan University", including finance, management, law, geography and other social disciplines will become the key majors of Fudan University, and the post of president will be held by Lin Ye, former vice minister of culture and education. This is also the result of Haizhou Governor Guan Ruzhong's running around, and Qingcheng City will become a new base for national higher education.

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In previous years, a large number of trade surpasses due to the large-scale state lending and foreign investment of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, which were quietly resolved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and domestic banking and financial institutions, and domestic prices of all kinds gradually decreased after 1625. Today's Chinese and American citizens enjoy the educational resources that were once monopolized by the upper class, enjoy the abundant goods imported from overseas territories and Europe under the premise of relatively stable salary income, and enjoy freedom of belief and peace and stability.

However, the first version of the Chinese American education policy, with the element of "catching the emergency", was imperfect after all, especially the education time for young people was relatively short. Primary and secondary education are only three-year periods, and once the knowledge foundation of basic education is weak, it will inevitably lead to a "low-grade" chain reaction in the middle and higher education that follows. This has been proven in three years of teaching at the Ivy League and the National University of Manchester.

Of course, the introduction of the first version of the education policy was more about weighing the issue of educational resources, but in order to ensure the quality of education in this education model, the Minister of Culture and Education Qi Yu still proposed an educational reform plan to the cabinet after the National Day, and prepared to fully implement it in the second half of 1630.

According to the plan, the education of young people in China will be readjusted to four levels:

The first level is early childhood education led by the Ministry of Women and Children, which focuses on the maintenance and development of early childhood education in the form of kindergartens. Due to the increasing number of newborns, the carrying capacity of the state's public kindergarten institutions has reached its limit. Therefore, starting in 1630, under the condition that the state bears the cost, it is changed to a combination of public and private institutions, and the resources of the whole society are used to ensure early childhood education as much as possible.

The second level is compulsory primary education in state primary schools, which has been adjusted from the previous three-year system to five years, adding more primary education time and richer basic courses.

The third level is compulsory secondary education in state secondary schools, and the school system has also been adjusted from the previous three years to five years, so that secondary school students at this stage can have more and more solid cultural knowledge.

The fourth level is the advanced education of colleges and universities, regardless of the major, the duration of education is three years. It adopts a combination of high school graduation and excellent students, free national examination, and scholarship support.

In addition to the four levels of national general education, technical and vocational education has also been slightly adjusted: in addition to on-the-job training, the duration of professional education for both secondary and higher vocational and technical education is three years, of which secondary vocational and technical education is also free for secondary school graduates.

A large number of books produced by the "pretense" of the public have been successively screened out as textbooks for various disciplines, and adjusted according to the actual teaching situation. As for the source of teachers, in addition to the fact that most of the first batch of students graduated in 1629 were filled with schools at all levels, there would also be "celebrities" from Europe, and it is believed that the increasing number of printed materials in the National Library of the American capital in China was enough to attract a large number of certain nerds of the 17th century.

Such a huge education policy reform shocked everyone at the first time of the Congress, which means that the annual education budget will be increased by at least 40%, but Qi Yu vowed that she will "fight to the end" against any lawmakers who try to turn their eyes on it in Congress.

At one time, members of Congress were sarcastically questioning whether Qi Yu's behavior of "poaching" European scholars in the 17th century would "reduce the quality of national education", "mislead the correct development of science", or "cause academic safety problems", but Qi Yu directly proposed that the members of Congress present elaborate on a series of contents such as "analytic geometry" and "projectile motion and inertia theory" that appeared in the 17th century and are still the cornerstone of human science development in the 21st century.

At the moment, many of the things that most of you are proud of in your mind are actually the scientific achievements of these 17th-century "dirt buns".

Most of the people are staring dryly, a few are closed, and a few are smiling and silent. Finally, Li Ping, a former middle school mathematics teacher who has been engaged in education for a long time and is now the speaker of the House of Representatives, made the most authoritative speech: "The reason why these historical figures are called great men is not whether they have more modern knowledge than us, but their innate strong thinking ability and learning methods, and can observe, analyze and answer problems on the basis of half-understanding or even ignorance." The younger generation who teach us with beautiful textbooks in their hands will be more competent than you, and only we can enjoy this rich gift of history. ”

As for the issue of "academic security", the statement of Homeland Security Secretary Liu Yun made some opponents furious-"...... At least I believe that many of them are more moral and of character than many of us here, in terms of moral character and the search for scientific truth. ”

It is unknown how many people Liu Yun offended again, but on November 1, the Congress still voted by a majority to approve the "Amendment to the Education Law" and the "Draft for the Introduction of Educational Talents". (To be continued......)