Chapter 535, Press Act and Education Reform Act
Winston is ready to be a noble and great man like Ray.
Brooklyn wasn't prepared to stand in the way.
As a good friend, the only thing he could do was give some advice and get Winston not to rush it.
Under the intervention of capital, how public education is gradually lost to private education, and is completely thrown away by private education, this kind of historical topic has long been discussed in Brooklyn and Winston.
Although the federal education reform has long been aware of the problem of unequal distribution of educational resources and has always tried to avoid it, it is unfortunate that with the strong intervention of capital, things are inevitably slipping into the abyss.
Just like during the bipolar struggle of the last century, once the arms race begins, it must end with the complete collapse of one side.
Education has also become an arms race for the modern family.
Families with money and capital are willing to invest, they buy more books, hire better private tutors, go to better schools, receive more careful attention and education, they not only spend "military spending" on humanities or natural sciences, they propose the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor.
Wealthier families can infinitely broaden the breadth of their students' interests, ballet, piano, violin, cello, calligraphy, wine appreciation...... There is only what you can't think of, and there is nothing they haven't learned.
When hobbies are also incorporated into the education system, the arms race will become more intense, and new tracks will be added that will eliminate a large part of the family.
In such a layer of screening, all those who can persist are families with strong capital.
One of their students may have several, even dozens, or dozens of teachers of various subjects revolving around him, and he alone may have to "eat" millions or tens of millions of "military spending."
The people created by such a large amount of money are not at all comparable to the people who take classes together and study by reading books or surfing the Internet in their spare time, and self-study is all about voluntarily cultivated.
Whether it is the depth and breadth of knowledge, it is completely comparable.
The society is strict and has a real screening mechanism, and the screening will be completed at the first time, and before they can react, the fate of people under the two kinds of education is already doomed.
The people created by the winners of the "deep arms race" know how good this system has been, and they may not necessarily think that only a small percentage of the population must have such an education, and most of the others will work for themselves, but they will at least be able to educate their own children.
When these people come together, they are capital. These people are the beneficiaries of such an educational system and will naturally maintain it.
If Winston wanted to change, he had to break down this naturally forming, formidable arms barrier. And in doing so, you will offend all the beneficiaries and be attacked by the crowd.
Why should we receive the same education as the poor ghosts? It's not like we didn't spend money! Every class we take is bought for real money! Why deprive us of the right to spend money?
In fact, there is another problem that Brooklyn does not understand.
It stands to reason that he is the victim of this system, and he is an accident.
As an orphan, he was able to study at Harvard, and his contribution was unimaginable to those Harvard students of the same period.
He is like a bug, jumping out of the law of the arms race in education.
On the contrary, Winston is a beneficiary of this arms race regime. Whether it's him, it's his son Jerry.
But now the two have diametrically opposed positions when discussing the issue.
While Brooklyn is taking the side of the opposition against Brooklyn's unrecognizable education reform laws, Winston is standing on the side of civilians and struggling to support it.
The two then conducted a rough study of the state legislators and then conducted mock votes based on their backgrounds.
"No."
Brooklyn glanced at the voting results on the computer screen and shook his head
"You can't pull allies at all."
"They don't see any interest and won't be on your side."
Winston was also a little irritable, and he scratched his hair, a little manic
He slapped the table twice, and the keyboard and file box on the table jumped up.
"What are they thinking?"
"How did they get to be a councilor?"
"You only want to make money, and you don't want to do anything for the voters!
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Brooklyn looked Winston up and down and sneered.
"It's pretty strange. It's the first time I've heard anyone say that from a federal official. There are still people who know that officials are responsible for their constituents, not for themselves!"
Knowing that Brooklyn wasn't sarcastic, Winston sighed a little uncomfortably, "Who isn't here for themselves, and few of the 21 million federal government employees remember what their job is."
The two looked at each other without saying a word.
Winston was a little frustrated.
With Brooklyn's help, his education reform law has been revised to an unknown number of editions, from the initial resolute and resolute attitude, full of "must", "can't" and "must", to the current means of mild, slowly, step by step, the wording has also changed from absolute tone to deliberative words such as "can" and "shouldn't".
The two agreed that the education reform law should be divided into multiple versions, and that the entire education reform should be carried out in multiple times.
The first official version of the education reform law should be mild, preferably unremarkable, so that those who have been touched will think that this is just a political show used by Winston to win votes, and make them think that it is just a show!
Then it slowly developed secretly, and slowly rolled out the second edition, the third edition......
The plank road is repaired in the light, and the warehouse is in the dark.
But even so, even if the first version of the education reform law only called for increased education funding, requiring public schools to confirm that students are studying in school...... It boils down to making education compulsory, ensuring that children are at school age and not elsewhere.
Compulsory education is not an uncommon product for the Federation, the problem is that the Federation's compulsory education is a face-saving project, and it has not been implemented at all.
The purpose of the first version of Winston's education reform law was to make it compulsory.
Fearing a large number of opposition, the first version of the reform law they chose could almost be said to be a slight change from the original provisions, with no new content.
Even so, after the two simulated it, they still thought that the eucalyptus could not pass.
The result is discouraging.
After a moment of silence, Brooklyn patted Winston on the shoulder.
"Let's try again. If it doesn't pass, find a way to solve the problem."
If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who has the problem.
Whoever blocks the way and can't get around it, he will remove those who are in the way.
This line of thinking is very common in political battles.
Winston nodded, cheered up, and threw himself into the next round of simulation.
He could see that Brooklyn had little interest in it at first, and that it was purely out of friendship that he had persisted until now.
This round of simulation ended quickly, and of course, it still failed to pass.
Brooklyn simply pushed Winston away, grabbed a pen and began to transcribe names.
Soon, more than two dozen names were transcribed.
Brooklyn tore off the page with his name copied on it. There was a slap on the table.
"These people."
Brooklyn's fingers were spread and placed on top of the list.
"If you don't get rid of these people, you won't be able to pass your education reform law for another hundred years."
With that, Brooklyn pondered for a moment and said
"And your education reform law is a provocation to prestigious schools such as Rochester, and it will naturally push them to the opposite side."
As long as the school is still under the control of the school board, as long as the school supervises the accounts of funds, does not change its thinking, and treats education as a business, and values the process of education rather than the receptors of education, the University of Rochester
, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and so on, not only these private institutions, but also public institutions such as the State University of New York, are not necessarily on Winston's side.
The long career of the "arms race" has turned education into a real business, where acceptance letters are a business, letters of recommendation are a business, and graduation certificates are a business...... The focus of education is not at all on the student.
When the school board makes a more unnatural existence that puts money, rankings, and social relations first, education is no longer pure, and education has become a business.
But on the other hand, money is indispensable for improving the quality of education.
It's a balancing game, and at this stage, Brooklyn hasn't found any country that really plays this balancing game well.
Occasionally, there are excellent ones, and they are also fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter.
This is no longer just a problem in the education industry, but a social problem.
Unless the "money" is no longer there, education can truly become pure.
"You're going to face more resistance." Brooklyn said earnestly, "If you really want to do it, you have to be ready."
What preparation?
Needless to say more about Brooklyn, Winston knows it.
Even the two of them were reluctant to say it.
Because from the perspective of the two, the future is undoubtedly pessimistic. There is no way to see a plan to implement it thoroughly.
Winston's full set of education reforms is simply a pipe dream!
Winston wiped his face and said, "Brooklyn, to be honest, before that, my purpose in introducing education reform was not pure. I want to use the education reform to leverage other industries and increase the control of the state government over the whole state."
"But now that we've been talking about it, I've suddenly realized that implementing reforms will do more harm than good, but it's hard for me to convince myself to just give up."
Winston looked at Brooklyn, his lips quirming.
"I ......"
He also wants to be a good governor, a governor worthy of the name.
Even if his intentions are not good, he has selfish intentions.
Brooklyn laughed, and Winston laughed too.
I'm a little embarrassed about my fan.
Brooklyn waved his hand, touched his chin and thought, "It's not completely hopeless."
"Maybe you can't come up with a complete set of reforms, but we can take it one step at a time."
"We first need to make sure that voters are not fooled by the voices of opposition, and no matter how selfish we are, at least the benefits will be realized by the reforms."
"We need to let the voters know that and how much pressure we have to fight for their benefits. Know who is against it and doesn't want to give them benefits."
"We have to stimulate the subjectivity of the electorate."
Winston's eyes sparkled.
In previous discussions, Brooklyn had been referring to the Reformation Act with words like "you," "you," "your," and "your," but now he chose to use the word "our."
[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]
Brooklyn thought and said.
"Everything else is secondary, and we have to take the propaganda front. Otherwise it will be more difficult for us."
The two looked at each other, and Winston said, "Press law!"
Brooklyn was silent.
Going round and round, it's back to the press law.
At this stage, the fastest way to occupy the propaganda position is to press the law.
Through the press law, let the press law be turned into a rope around the neck of the media, and the other end of the rope is in their hands.
Control the media and occupy the propaganda front through the press law.
By occupying the propaganda position, we will lay the foundation for educational reform and be invincible.
Through education reform, Winston's goal is to gain political capital for the two of them, so that all the beneficiaries of education reform can become their solid backing.
It's interlinked.
The problem is that Brooklyn has decided to abandon the press law and use it as a bait to crack down on the opposition within Harvard.
Brooklyn looked solemn and whispered all of his ideas around the press law.
"The point is that the plan is already being implemented." "It's almost the end," Brooklyn said.
"It's too late to change it now."
The combination of Anthony and Burke is still very good, the future of the garbage station project is bright, and the research team has basically absorbed and closed 90 percent of the opposition.
It is unlikely that Brooklyn would terminate the plan to temporarily change the press law to a passable state to increase the prestige of the opposition.
That's digging into one's own roots.
If he did, his position at Harvard would be in jeopardy.
Winston figured this out immediately, and smiled wryly at Brooklyn.
After going around and around, I finally came up with a solution, only to find that the road had long been blocked.
Things are back to square one.