Early in the morning, Cheng Nuo took breakfast, and just before he had time to eat a few bites in the office, he saw Cai Yuanpei coming over in a hurry, holding a newspaper in his hand, and after looking around, he found his location, and came to him in two steps.

Seeing the visitor, Cheng Nuo easily divided the breakfast he bought into two parts.

"Cai Gong is early, have you eaten, the breakfast I just bought hasn't moved yet, it's hot, do you want to have some taste?"

"Zhiyuanyou, how can I still have the heart to eat, I have long been full of these newspapers." Cai Yuanpei took out the newspapers and put them on the table, and tapped them with his index finger: "I think there are some people in the society, it is really not enough to succeed and more than to fail, and they also have to intervene in our own affairs in Beiping School!" ”

"People are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic. If Cai Gong doesn't take care of his body, isn't he fulfilling the will of some bad people? Cheng Nuo took the newspaper and didn't have time to read it, so he handed over the breakfast first: "Lao Zhangtou's small enema, made of starch red yeast water and tofu residue, eat it with a bamboo skewer, absolutely authentic." ”

Cai Yuanpei originally wanted to refuse, but after smelling the fragrance, he also found that he was a little hungry, so he took the breakfast: "Lao Zhang's vegetarian enema, I really haven't eaten it for a few days, but Zhiyuan, you'd better take a look at the newspaper I brought first." ”

Wiping his mouth, Cheng Nuo tidied up the table a little, opened the newspaper and began to read.

The core idea of the front page headline is one, that is, to reiterate the "ban on women".

The so-called ban on female stipping refers to the fact that before the May Fourth Movement, the school system stipulated that only male and female students at the elementary school level could study in the same school, and universities were prohibited from enrolling male and female students at the same time.

However, before the May Fourth Movement, among the 84 higher education institutions established in China, there was not a single higher education school for women.

As a result, after completing secondary school, many girls are almost faced with the embarrassing situation of having no school to attend, except for a few church universities founded by foreigners.

Someone once commented: "The traditional women's education in our country only allows women to receive primary education, and does not allow women to receive higher education." Only teach women about women's morality, but not how to learn to be an independent person. ”

Criticism of the ban on women began very early.

Looking at the first director of education who was still eating breakfast next to him, Cheng Nuo had some doubts about the school system

"Cai Gong, when the school system was formulated, why didn't it be clearly stated that secondary and higher education could be co-educational, and now I am afraid it is not so easy to reform the system."

Cai Yuanpei put the small enema aside and sighed: "It is not easy to make progress now. At the beginning, in order to break the feudalism, they did not hesitate to move out of the social reality, and clearly stated that primary schools must not be co-educational, but the financial resources of the towns were limited, and it was impossible to set up special girls' schools in addition to the boys' schools, and many daughters would lose their education. ”

"However, there is a lot of local resistance, and the new government is not able to implement it strongly, so it has been changed to a primary school where primary schools can be co-schooled, and girls' upper primary schools and above can set up girls' secondary schools, normal schools and higher normal schools, which is really a helpless move."

Cai Yuanpei is also a propagandist and practitioner of gender equality in essence, and when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not overthrown, he founded a patriotic girls' school in Shanghai with the purpose of cultivating new women with knowledge and courage, and repeatedly called for "women cannot stand on their own without studying." ”

The progress of the school system has been the result of his best efforts.

Cheng Nuo handed over a few tissues: "Equal rights rather than privileges, there are few students, and they have to cut off their own arms, could it be that those feudal diehards insist on it?" ”

Cai Yuanpei straightened his face and shook his head: "Not exactly, some of them are even so-called progressives who are active in society." ”

It has been a historical trend for women to go to school, but as it has developed, some people have also begun to be full of worries and anxieties, saying that after receiving too much modern education, women may look down on men, do not want to take on the role of mother, and so on, sometimes for and sometimes against, full of contradictions.

This situation is not unique to our country, and the United States also had serious problems in this area at the same time. Some schools have long supported coeducation, while others have been slow to reform, such as Stanford University, which has a quota system for female admissions, with fewer than 500 female enrollments and majors in education and home economics. Universities such as Yale and Princeton refused to admit women until the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century.

Regarding this kind of problem, Cheng Nuo clearly showed his attitude: "Cai Gong, I have always thought that women can hold up half the sky and support equal rights and oppose the privileges of any party. ”

"It's good that women can hold up half the sky." After Cai Yuanpei recalled this sentence, he liked it very much: "Although the words are simple, the truth is extraordinary, they have the right to receive higher education." ”

The two originally wanted to continue chatting for a while, but seeing that the number of people in the office was gradually increasing, Cai Yuanpei instructed him a few words and left.

In fact, Cai Yuanpei came here for two purposes, one is to see Cheng Nuo's views on co-educational schools and find out the bottom line; The other is for the purpose of protection and appeasement, saying that he and Peking University stand behind him to support him. After all, the front foot is still praised by the society, and the back foot is criticized, and it is inevitable that the young and vigorous heart will be blocked.

Now after seeing Cheng Nuo's attitude, he is already very satisfied, and he will fight back with liberal arts.

Cheng Nuo naturally won't sit still, while insisting that female classmates can come over to audit, he also quietly took a pen name, published short stories to satirize some so-called celebrities, and divorced his illiterate wife after making a fortune, looking for a cultured female student as a companion.

The words that women can hold up half the sky began to circulate among the people with the help of articles.

The pioneers of the new culture, Chen and Li, also published their own articles in support of gender equality, against privilege, and for coeducation.

All of a sudden, literati from all walks of life rolled up their sleeves and left one after another, and even Brother Xun no longer studied the inscriptions, and issued an article criticizing the feudal remnants, with sharp words, and some people had to stop fighting.

All highly educated women have also begun to speak out, advocating equality between men and women, and publishing in both literary and popular languages, so that women with no education or only primary education can read the content of the articles.

With the passage of time, the topic of discussion has quietly changed from supporting co-education at the beginning to how to co-education, and then to how to socialize with men and women, and public opinion has fallen to Cheng Nuo's side.

In the class question, a student asked Cheng Nuo about his views on social issues, and Cheng Nuo smiled calmly: "There are so many female students in the class, and there are more and more of them, I think you should understand my attitude." ”

For the predecessors like the female tractor driver printed on the coins after liberation, it is the truest portrayal of women who can hold up half the sky, Cheng Nuo is naturally full of respect, and the more the better.

As for the rest, don't mention it.

The pressure of public opinion has been resolved, but the pressure from the Beiyang government has only just arrived, and some warlords have complained about the actions of Beiping University.