Chapter 44: The Lake
The timetable of the new school is not very different from that of later generations.
The first and second classes in later generations were often liberal arts such as Chinese, English or history, and mathematics, physics and chemistry were arranged in the back row, close to noon, and the reason is easy to explain: people have a good memory in the morning, which is convenient for memorization.
In this new-style school, it is the opposite, but the science is the first, and the first and second classes are basically all mathematics, physics and chemistry, because the spirit is good in the morning and the logical thinking is strong.
In addition to mathematics, physics and chemistry, the rest of the courses are mostly English, followed by small subjects such as music and physical education, and the amount of courses in Bahasa Malaysia has fallen to the point of being on a par with these small subjects.
If it weren't for the fact that since the middle of the last century, the Westerners have used artillery to open the country, and even in just a few decades, even the eastern island countries can be bullied on the heads of the Chinese people, this move will inevitably arouse people's anger, shouting that this is a judgment of the scriptures.
It is normal for the new school of Chinese to have few subjects, after all, the Chinese people of this era have almost fallen into extreme inferiority.
All kinds of treaties, indemnities, land cessions. Trade not only increased the burden on the people, but also dealt a heavy psychological blow to them.
In this case, begin to negate everything that has passed.
But this kind of thing is always unspoken, until ......
Mr. Lu Xun, who was famous all over the world, made a depressing speech in 1925 in "Must-Read Books for Youth":
"I thought I should read less – or not – Chinese books and more foreign books.
When I read Chinese books, I always feel that I should be quiet and leave real life; When I read foreign books – but not in India – I often get in touch with life and want to do something. ”
There are many people who agree with this sentence, and there are even more people who oppose it, but if it is a different person, I am afraid that he will be opposed in unison, and then he will be labeled a dog traitor.
In the midst of criticism and abuse, Lu Xun once again expressed his views in the article "Written Behind the Tomb" in the following year:
"Last year, I advocated that young people read less or simply not read Chinese books, but I used a lot of pain to exchange the truth, and it was by no means a joke or a joke or a word of anger."
As a pioneer in advocating Western studies, the new school did not directly ban the national language, which is already a very "conservative" measure.
……
Instructor Gewu wore a pure black tunic with sleeves rolled up, pants were Western-style black pants, stepped on a pair of hard-soled black leather shoes, and walked in with a thick book in his hand.
As soon as he arrived, the classroom, which was still a little noisy, immediately became quiet.
Looking at his face, he is about thirty years old, or maybe forty years old, and it is not easy to guess the age of a man in this age just by looking at his face.
Logically speaking, Bao Guowei still guessed that this teacher was in his thirties, after all, the time when Xinxue was valued was not long ago, and the older teachers of Western studies were probably much more difficult to find than i cats and bears.
The face of the instructor looks a little fierce, with dark brown skin, square face, contoured face like a knife and an axe, and small eyes, but it looks very energetic.
The instructor strode up to the podium and slammed the book on the table with a dull "thump" sound like a small hammer hitting the students' hearts.
He propped his hands on the table and slowly looked around the school, just looking at it without saying a word.
This move made many students feel bad psychologically, could it be that he is a very strict teacher?
There is already a Shen bald man, and he will be punished for copying at every turn, if there is another strict Gewu teacher, I am afraid that the future will be difficult!
"Chen Jinhua, don't eat it, the new teacher is not easy to mess with, if you catch him, it will be over!"
Guo Chun secretly poked Chen Jinhua's waist with his fingers under the table, and Chen Jinhua was still eating with his head down at this moment, intoxicated by the deliciousness of hawthorn slices.
After being reminded, Chen Jinhua suddenly raised his head and looked at the podium, and found that the teacher was also looking at him, and his heart was suddenly half cold, and he didn't dare to chew the hawthorn slices stuffed in his mouth.
Fortunately, the instructor didn't come to investigate, only stared at him for a second or two, and then began to turn his head to "put pressure" on the other students.
"It's over, it's over, there is Shen Bald in the front, and there is a Gewu instructor in the back, and the future will definitely be difficult, and the other teachers haven't appeared yet, I want to change the class......"
Lu and the others just got rid of the "pressure gaze" of the Gewu instructor, gently tugged the bangs that drooped on their foreheads, and complained in their hearts.
She is a freshman, and her family has invited a private school teacher, and since she was a child, she has known that she has no talent for science, and she belongs to the kind of person who learns to be a chicken and rabbit in the same cage, and lists an ordinary binary equation, and has to solve it for half a day.
Yesterday, she met Shen Bald, an arithmetic teacher who punished copying at every turn, and she felt that her future school career would be difficult, and now she met such a Gewu teacher again.
In particular, she heard that the difficulty of Gewu is even more difficult than arithmetic, which makes her feel hopeless about the future.
"It's over, it's over! I've read the Gewu book, it's all in Western languages, but it's still a strict teacher, it's over! ”
Yuan Xiaofang hugged her head and thought bitterly.
"It's over, there will be no good days in the future, look at his thick arms, and then look at this face, I often beat people when I look at it! My life is at rest! ”
"What a hard time to go to this new school!"
Many other students also have similar thoughts in their hearts, and they have already decided in their hearts that this is a strict teacher, maybe they are still the kind of person who loves to beat people.
"Guo Chun, do you know this instructor?"
Bao Guowei asked in a whisper, Guo Chun is a repeater after all, and he knows much more than a freshman, for example, he is very familiar with Mr. Shen.
And according to what he just said to Chen Jinhua, "This new teacher is not easy to mess with", his tone is still very firm, and it seems that he also knows this teacher.
"His surname is Song, I heard that he came back from studying in the West, and he is still a senior official in the Education Department, anyway, the director of the Political and Educational Department has to greet the smiling face when he sees it."
"There was a student who talked back to him in the past, and the teacher didn't have to speak, as soon as the political and educational office knew about it, he was directly expelled from the school, and at that time, he also invited many people to guarantee it, and the political and educational office was not loose at all."
Guo Chun propped his hands on the table, covered his mouth weakly, tilted his head slightly, and replied in a low voice, Mr. Shen didn't pay much attention to him, and he seemed a little stunned of this teacher.
……
Mr. Song glanced at it for a long time, and the atmosphere in the school became more and more dull, everyone stopped whispering, and the classroom became audible.
After a long time, Mr. Gewu, surnamed Song, cleared his throat heavily, but he opened his mouth, without introducing himself first, but directly to the point, his voice was thick and full of energy:
"Gewu is the top priority of the new school of education, and it will also be the direction of the future development of national education.
"Not only our country, but the whole world is currently very short of talents who are proficient in Gewu, if you can learn Gewu well, there will definitely be a place for everyone in the future."
As soon as this Song teacher spoke, the pattern was very big, and he rose directly to the national level, no wonder Guo Chun said that he was a big official in the Education Department.
"In October this year, the Education Department discussed a new rule, which includes but is not limited to science subjects such as Gewu, which can be ranked in the first class, and no matter how poor the other subjects are, they do not need to repeat the grade."
As soon as these words came out, some repeaters, including Guo Chun, were a little shocked.