Speaking of the China Vocational Education Society, it is not as Cheng Nuo thought at the beginning, it was only established to cultivate industrial workers and set up industries.

There are few cultural people, and they are very precious, but there are not many employment opportunities, and they have to delay their wages for more than half a year if they finally eat public meals.

In order to guide students to find employment, the principal Zhou Jimei specially launched a career speech activity and hired experts to give lectures on vocational issues, such as Wang Zhengyan's "vocational education", Wu Chaoshu's "Fazheng", and Dong Xianguang's "New Literature", all of which were established to promote students' employment, so there was a "tripartite agreement".

Even in order to further guide employment, the provost of Qinghua School directly led students to the United States to investigate, specially collected various career guidance materials, and specially solicited students' opinions and compiled them into publications, and directly set up a career guidance committee to help students find employment.

The big brothers were all living tightly, not to mention the colleges and universities in other places, not to mention that every family had a law major, and in this environment at that time, talking about the rule of law was a joke at all.

Therefore, even though Qinghua School was formerly known as the "Tourist Art Office", not everyone can go to the United States for further study, and there is also the goal of cultivating "leadership talents".

Looking at the attendees, Zhou Jimei was not in a hurry: "Taking our Qinghua School as an example, 80 percent of the international students sent by the school will specialize in industrial technology, agronomy, mechanical engineering, mining, physics and chemistry, railway engineering, construction, banking, railway management and similar disciplines, and the other 20 percent will specialize in law and political science."

"According to our school's internal survey, there is a serious mismatch between the careers they are engaged in after graduation and the majors they studied during their study abroad.

As the principal, Huang Yanpei quickly took notes: "The problem raised by Principal Zhou is very representative, I believe that for other schools, this is also a common difficulty, do you have a solution?"

Cai Yuanpei stood up, raised his hand and smiled: "I think Qinghua School's "Senior Senior Speech" is very good, so that students can deepen their understanding of social needs, and do not have to blindly follow social trends to choose popular majors, this kind of systematic counseling and help is worth promoting."

According to the academic system of Qinghua School, it is divided into two subjects: secondary and higher, and students study in the school for eight years: four years for secondary and four years for higher education. Because the employment speech is only for senior high school students, it is nicknamed "senior high school speech".

Zhou Jimei is not just talking, she has done a lot in private and helped many students choose the right major.

For example, Wu Yuseng, a master of Chinese studies, originally planned to learn practical studies such as road and mining, and later wanted to enter Columbia University to study journalism and publishing, his stepfather thought that English was easy to employ, and respected English majors.

In addition, Chen Heqin, who is known as the father of modern children's education in China, also changed from medicine to pedagogy under his guidance. And that's just a microcosm of the many students.

Cheng Nuo is quite respectful of the principal of Qinghua School, Zhou Jimei, and Qinghua also started to transform from the "Tourist Affairs Office" to a national university during his tenure, so he further extended his views:

"I strongly agree with the views of the two principals, and choose a subject to specialize in the needs of the times to achieve the goal of applying what they have learned and benefiting the community. Therefore, my suggestion is that we should also set up a career guidance department to investigate the situation of local vocational and school students, and arrange for people to give lectures to graduates to help them choose careers."

"For areas outside the Shanghai Stock Exchange, we might as well set up a "Education and Life" column in the public supplement of the "National" magazine, and publish a special number for career guidance to help students understand information outside the school."

This is not to say that Cheng Nuo is deliberately selfish, but the popular supplement of "National" magazine is more appropriate. is more famous than him, but academically not as strong as him; Academically stronger than him, the scale is smaller than him.

If you can really use the power of the China Vocational Education Society, then the magazine will be very much

It will soon spread across most of the country, and the effect of popular science is bound to be better.

The people below exchanged heads and ears when they heard it, and the scene was a little chaotic for a while.

Originally, some people were more opposed, looking at the person who stood up was a yellow-mouthed child, it must be that there is no hair on the mouth and things are not firm, and it must be some empty nonsense.

However, after listening to it, I felt that there was some truth, and after asking left and right, it turned out to be Professor Cheng, who had been in the limelight in the academic world for nearly half a year, and his attitude immediately changed, which is called the celebrity effect.

Zhang Jian in the audience cleared his throat and stood up to cheer: "In the eyes of ordinary people, our vocational education club must be used to introduce careers, but in fact, we know in our stomachs that we can't do this kind of thing, and if we want to solve this kind of problem fundamentally, we can only set up a special employment guidance committee at Professor Cheng's suggestion."

Chen Jiageng also stood up and echoed: "If we set up a vocational school in the future, and students from other schools come to study, how can we divide them into subjects? How can they be taught to develop their professional qualifications? What are the ways to put them on a path after they have completed their studies? If you think about it, this career guidance is a prerequisite for vocational education."

There are these people taking the lead, and the people below also express their opinions, but there is only one overall idea, that is, to agree to organize a career guidance committee and set up a subordinate career guidance department.

As a subordinate journal of the Academy of Sciences, it also invisibly helped him improve his right to speak.

With such a good start, the following meeting will be much smoother, and the bigwigs will express their opinions.

Someone expressed the confusion in his heart: "Vocational education is something that has not been recorded in the Oriental dictionary, and some people have doubts and prejudices about it, thinking that vocational education is simply teaching people the ability to eat, and has no other use, and even has the stigma of "rice bucket education", "slave education", and "evil education".

Huang Yanpei looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "Because of this, the purpose of our China Vocational Education Society is to prepare individuals to earn a living, to serve the society, and to increase the productive capacity of the world and the country, so as to dispel the doubts that vocational education is only regarded as a narrow sense of life education."

Zhang Yuanji of the Commercial Press agreed: "The so-called occupation is a definite act of mutual assistance under the common life of human beings, so vocational education is only used

The method of education is to enable everyone to have the provision and pleasure of life according to his individuality, and at the same time to fulfill his duty to the community."

Jiang Menglin concluded, "Education is the method, and career is the problem...... Therefore, vocational education has no other way to raise various problems in the profession and use education as a solution

Already."

Everyone is definitely not here to smash the scene, and they are also very optimistic about the prospects of the China Vocational Education Society, and what they say is basically agreeable.

When everyone had almost spoken, Cheng Nuo stood up at the right time to pour cold water, and pointed out the problem from the perspective of future people.

"The way out for students cannot be solved by the education sector alone, and more importantly, it is necessary to rely on the industry to help, specifically in terms of curriculum, what subjects to set up, what courses to customize, what teaching materials to use, but also to ask the opinions of the industry, even if it is simply to train students, it depends on their needs, and teachers must also dig from the industry. Develop vocational courses based on job analysis and based on the needs of social occupations."

"All in all, although vocational education is good, we should not take it for granted, and we must step out of the circle of traditional education and go from school to society."

As far as the school system of course is concerned, it is very unsuitable for vocational education. Although education is divided into three levels, junior high school and high school, industrial education includes two levels: primary and secondary, and the higher level of industrial education is classified as teacher education, which is too low in connection with each other.

After completing this stage of practical education, one can graduate without further study, while the lower level of general education can be promoted to the higher level of industrial school, and there is no link between the various levels of industrial school.

However, in a sense, it is also an advantage, in the period of economic underdevelopment, it helps to obtain technical talents in a short time, and the strict distinction of education levels is also conducive to the employment of students, for example

In later generations, students with good grades did not go to high school, but chose to study in a teacher's college, and worked after graduation.

Seeing that everyone had almost digested it, Cheng Nuo further added his views.

"In addition, we should also see the prejudice of our cultural psychology of advocating further education against vocational education, which is influenced by traditional attitudes in our country, and the people's attitude towards education is still keen on the promotion of higher education that can be mastered, and vocational education limited to the secondary stage naturally cannot meet their needs."

Of course, this problem is still there now, and it was even more serious then.

As one of the first people to advocate practical education, Cai Yuanpei was deeply touched: "I falsely believe that there is no learning outside of studying, and there is no industry outside of being an official, and I only know that school is the ladder for advancement, but I don't know that education is the nourishment of life, and I want his children to show their relatives and make a name for themselves, and they are proud of their ancestors to become big officials and make a fortune.

Hearing this, someone couldn't help but bow their heads.

Someone asked, with stubbornness, "According to Professor Cheng, the former is easy to solve, but what should the latter do?"

Cheng Nuo replied with a smile: "Vocational education can be considered to have a complete system of further education, and diplomas will be given after graduation, and equal social status will be given, so the development of vocational education needs to transform social psychology."

"At the very least, the students trained by our vocational education have a much higher salary than the local civil servants, and they are worthy of the sweat shed."

The legend of the German blue-collar workers in later generations might as well start with the Republic of China.