Chapter 46 Eight-year compulsory education

Looking at the long list in his hand, Huo Shan had some difficult choices.

The first is the establishment of the Mawei Ship Master School, also known as the Fujian Ship Master School, from which the people who completed their studies basically became Chinese talents from all walks of life! Moreover, the most important thing is that there are a large number of ship design and naval talents in it, which makes Huo Shan drool! Therefore, in just three months after the founding of the army, he received all the educational achievements of more than ten years! At present, the teachers in the Huo Jiajun Naval Academy and the Naval Academy are basically these horsetail talents! They are also the foundation of Huoshan's large-scale expansion of the navy!

In addition, the second thing it did right was to send young children to the United States to study in the United States! These 120-odd people, like the previous graduates of Mawei, are almost all top talents in modern China! Since Huo Shan had his eyes on them when he first formulated his plan for the rise of his nation, and after nearly a year of hard work, he has taken control of the office of Qing Zhèngfǔ in San Francisco, USA, and these ethnic groups will not be disturbed and will complete their studies quietly!

The proposal on the table now is handed in by his teacher, Huang Sheng, who has just become the premier of the Government Council, to apply for the completion of those highly educated horsetail talents in the hands of the navy to fill the departments at all levels that are seriously lacking!

Although a good education and a large number of talented people are the foundation for the rise of a nation and a country, Huo Shan, who understands the importance of the navy, has not been able to make up his mind.

"Teacher, I can't agree to this document, at least not now, our navy is still in the intensive training period, and the first batch of personnel has not yet graduated! Therefore, as teachers, they play an irreplaceable and important role in the development of our navy! Moreover, the navy is not an army, and it needs high-quality personnel to be able to control it! So I can't sign this document!" Huo Shan shook his head helplessly, and finally said.

"Okay, I know your difficulties, but if I draw people from the army, you can't stop you!" Huang Sheng said with some pity. Now that the new zhèngfǔ has been formed with a thousand heads, and there is a shortage of manpower in all aspects, it is no wonder that he will pay attention to the army, there is really no one! Moreover, now he has even pulled out Rong Hong, who has always been reluctant to go out, and is in charge of the Ministry of Education for him, because he really can't get out of his own way!

Huo Shan looked at the teacher's face with a bit of pity, and couldn't help but happily agree, with the current organizational form and advanced equipment of the army, even if a large number of officers are transferred, it will be difficult for the troops to defeat the battle!

"Teacher, you are also in charge of the Ministry of Education, has it been a month, has your department's five-year education plan been made?" Huo Shan asked with a smile.

"I've done it a long time ago!I'll show you!" As he spoke, Huang Sheng carefully took out a document with about thirty pages from the briefcase he was carrying and put it on the low table in front of Huo Shan!

Although these documents do not seem to be very thick, they were finally formulated by him with more than 30 staff members of the Ministry of Education and more than a month of checking the information and data, which embodies their hard work!

Picking it up, Huo Shan roughly browsed it, and after looking at the main data mentioned in it, he couldn't help but ask with some surprise: "Will there be too many teachers?"

"How can it be?" 100,000 elementary schools, 5,000 middle schools, 20 technical colleges, and two universities! Is this a lot?" Huang Sheng couldn't help but ask a little strangely.

"Teacher, we all say that ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, I am not afraid of spending money to build these schools, but the key is the teacher, the teacher needed for the establishment of the school! We do not build a school to form a huge number to look good, but to really teach and educate people, and not to mislead people's children!" Huo Shanshen said solemnly. He didn't want to be like the Chinese university education in later generations, which established batch after batch, but there were very few universities that really reached the world level!

"It's very gratifying for you to think like this! Don't worry, the teacher has done a deep and careful investigation to establish so many schools. Before formulating this plan, I had already discussed with Huo Long and them, and now the army implements a three-year compulsory military service system, which means that in two years, from 83 to 85, there will be more than 450,000 retirees every year in these three years! In addition to serving as grassroots personnel and becoming industrial workers, the Ministry of Education wants 300,000 retired servicemen to work as teachers in schools every year, which means that before the completion of the first five-year plan, we will have 900,000 qualified primary and secondary school teachers! According to the calculation of 200 students in each of the four grades of primary school, it should be reasonable and appropriate for each teacher to bring 50 students! In this way, 100,000 primary schools need 400,000 teachers. In addition, according to our new eight-year compulsory education, each middle school covers 20 primary schools, and 400,000 teachers are also needed, which is an extra 100,000 people!

Looking at the confident look on his teacher's face, Huo Shan couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile, he didn't expect that he would also pay the attention of these retired soldiers!

Looking at the only two universities on this plan, Huo Shan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that the teacher's mind is still very clear, and the cultivation of senior talents can only rely on the accumulation of time little by little!

"We plan to build Taiwan University in an all-round way in the next five years, and strive to build it into a comprehensive university with a complete range of arts and sciences and more than 20,000 students! Moreover, we will rely on technicians and senior engineers from various factories to establish a Taipei Polytechnic University with a focus on science! In addition, we will establish Nanyang Normal University that specializes in training teachers! The teachers of these three universities will be provided by graduates of our own universities, international students studying in the United States, as well as foreign teachers and senior talents from major factories that we have invited!" Huang Sheng said as he looked at his disciples.

"Why don't we count our own overseas talents, I remember that this year we didn't send 500 students to the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States?" Huo Shan asked with some differences.

"Yes, but these children only have a simple primary school knowledge, which means that they will start to re-study from a foreign secondary school! Then when they return to China after graduating from university, it will take at least eight to ten years! This is beyond the scope of our first five-year plan!"

"Yes, I see! In the future, we can't stop the plan of sending students abroad, and every year there are 1,500 students, and their study and living expenses in foreign countries are all included in our annual allocation from the Ministry of Education!" Huo Shan knows very well the importance of education and talents, so he does not hesitate to spend money on this at all!

Huang Sheng felt very pleased to have such a disciple who attaches great importance to education and dares to invest, and after returning to China from studying at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, he deeply felt sorry for the ignorance of the people in China, so he spent the most thought on education! In the past year, he has almost traveled all over Taiwan and Hainan, recruiting teachers from all over the world through his connections abroad, and establishing one middle school after another. Therefore, most of the credit for Taiwan's education to the current level in one year should be credited to Huang Sheng!

"Five million in the first year, eight million in the second year, 20 million in the third year, 30 million in the fourth year, and 50 million in the fifth year!" Huo Shan looked at the increasing education funds above, and took a deep breath, if it weren't for the landlords and Nanyang natives who copied some gold and silver, he really didn't dare to shout the slogan of eight-year compulsory education! The cost of room and board and tuition for each student, the salary of each teacher, the construction of new schools, the annual expenses for overseas students, and the purchase of various teaching facilities in schools will reach 50 million taels of silver per year in five years, but compared with China's current population base, he still needs at least 150,000 primary schools to ensure that all school-age children will be enrolled in school after the liberation of the country! By that time, Huo Jiajun's investment in education will reach an unprecedented 150 million taels of silver, which is twice the income of all the current Qing Dynasty!

Thinking of this number, Huo Shan had a headache, a very headache, this number is too huge! But for the sake of the country's future, this money cannot but be spent!

"Teacher, the appropriation of education cannot be delayed! In addition, there are many merchants and many landlords in our base areas whose land has been confiscated but there are not many evil deeds, and your Ministry of Education can mobilize them to invest in education, and these people will participate in the councils we have set up at the local level! In addition, we can give them some benefits in terms of taxation and in the light industrial factories set up in various places!

"Well, this is a good way, although the real power of the council is not very large, but it still has a good role in supervising magistrates and preventing **, I believe these people will be interested!" Huang Sheng said with a smile after thinking for a while. That being said, before the state was established, the parliament was set up in the air!

However, now Huang Sheng is not only the minister of the Ministry of Education but also the new premier of the Government Council, and there is a lot of investment in industry, transportation, water conservancy and other areas in all the occupied areas of Huo Jiajun, so it is extremely important not to save a penny!