Chapter 39 Personnel Retraining

East Africa's military industry is mainly heavy industry, and light industry has a short production cycle, low investment, and quick results, which can quickly return funds and achieve profitability.

On the contrary, it is the disadvantage of heavy industry, of course, in the 19th century, the development of heavy industry belongs to the initial stage, these problems are not obvious, in Britain, France and Germany and other countries, heavy industry profits are considerable, under normal circumstances, basically the risk is very small, so investment in heavy industry is profitable, and relatively stable.

At the same time, there are advantages to the competition of various countries, in the 19th century, the military is the basic guarantee of national development, otherwise this side of the production is at ease, the next day the great powers with "strong ships and cannons" directly bombard the country, destroy the local industry, then there is no way to talk about development.

"China's military industry is one of the few industrial categories that can realize self-research and development and design capabilities, the country will invest limited talents in the development of the military industry, while the civilian industry has this capital is limited to a few industries such as railways, steel, electric power, automobiles, etc., and according to the talent training cycle in East Africa, we want to reach the level of European and American countries, at least after 1895."

This is the current situation of East Africa's talent pool, East African talents mainly rely on the early Heixingen School training, that is, the Heixingen royal family set up various schools in Europe, plus East Africa's current study abroad workers in Europe as a supplement, the local talent training cycle is as long as more than ten years or even decades.

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By 1888, there were more than 700 language schools in East Africa, with more than 8,000 teachers and staff.

"For the re-education of these teachers, it is necessary to do it, and we are ready to eliminate most of them, and only retain more than 100 of them, which can meet most of the needs, focusing on retaining the central and western regions and coastal areas, and language schools in many areas in the east can be abolished."

Language schools were a key part of the assimilation effort in East Africa, with nearly 10,000 language schools of all kinds at the height of the seventies, mainly for the purpose of popularizing the German language.

Conditions vary widely, with some not even having a fixed location, and some being directly integrated into the East African compulsory education system.

As a special school that has existed in East Africa for more than 20 years, the language school has made a great contribution to East Africa, most importantly to ensure the dominance of the German language in East Africa, and the German-speaking population of East Africa has been able to assimilate immigrants to other languages without the need for policy coercion.

This is the same as the Slavs who immigrated to Germany, many Slavs from Poland and other places went to live in Berlin and other big German cities, and if they did not take the initiative to learn German, they would inevitably find it difficult to move an inch.

"According to the cultural level of these teachers, we believe that the government should lead them to further deepen their learning, because they have been engaged in education all year round, and their learning ability is still relatively strong, and they can be re-educated by going to our local higher education institutions or to the German region of Europe."

In East Africa, in order to rapidly popularize the German language, the choice of language teachers was very limited, and it was mainly young people, many of whom had only been exposed to very elementary compulsory education or the lower level of education that the Heshingen royal family had built in Europe.

Therefore, the age of the language teachers is actually not very old, and the perennial teaching work makes them very good in German, especially in writing, and at the same time can be exposed to more learning channels, so the cultural level is not too low.

But in the same way, they are only responsible for German education all the year round, which also makes their education level very narrow, mainly concentrated in language and literature, and there is a feeling that the high is not the low.

After all, now that German is widespread in East Africa, the value of German education has declined, and they have no experience in other jobs.

Ernst: "Although there is a certain gap between language teachers and real teachers, the foundation is still good, many of them are people who went to school in Germany and interrupted their studies in order to popularize East African German, so according to their interests, let them first receive short-term training in local colleges and universities, and then study abroad, and then achieve re-employment in other fields in East Africa in the future, so as to effectively supplement the high-level talents in East Africa." ”

The normal training cycle of East African education system is very long, and the compulsory education stage alone can be as long as ten years, so these teachers who have been teaching in East Africa for many years are in a very awkward situation.

It would be a bit difficult for them to study for a longer period of time, after all, they are too old compared to ordinary students, so they can only be trained in schools in East Africa before studying in Europe.

Although it is a bit rushed, their foundation is much better than that of students studying in Japan and the Far Eastern Empire, first of all, there is no language barrier, and secondly, the teaching experience in East Africa makes them have a good literary foundation, and the older they are, it also means that it is easier to cherish the hard-won opportunities, and East Africa does not kick them away, but provides them with the opportunity to continue their studies.

Of course, it was not possible for Ernst to abandon these people outright, and an important task of the language school was to carry out cultural propaganda against immigrants.

Therefore, the "ideological consciousness" of these people is definitely one of the highest groups in East Africa, and many of the language teachers are orphans, and it is the Heixingen royal family that provides them with early living security and learning opportunities.

Originally, according to Ernst's idea, these people took the normal learning channel in Germany, but the rapid expansion of East Africa disrupted the rhythm, and the talents that would have taken several years to cultivate have all become rapid talents in a few months.

Now let them go back to the furnace to rebuild, but also to make up for the original regret, but this needs to be coordinated by the East African government, especially the number of government study abroad places in East Africa every year is limited, fortunately, in recent years, East Africa has built a number of higher education institutions, you can stuff them into these schools first, and then slowly arrange.

"The number of people studying in Europe is limited after all, and there are many private higher education schools built by Germany and Austria-Hungary in recent years, and we can negotiate with them, but the effect may not be too ideal, after all, the education level of these schools is uneven, and the fees are not uniform, and a professional team needs to identify and then negotiate with the Cypriots, which is probably also a big expense."

Ernst: "Just let it go, studying abroad is an important talent training model, and European education needs to be identified, and now there are some capitalists who specialize in opening 'pheasant universities' to recruit students from backward areas, if we don't pay attention to East Africa, I'm afraid we will also be deceived!" ”

When he said this, Ernst did not blush at all, in fact, it was Ernst himself who opened the most "pheasant" schools in Germany.

It can be said that he made this bad start, and by the way, the educational atmosphere in the entire German region deteriorated, which was still a bad idea to earn tuition fees for students from Japan and other countries, but it was extremely successful.

Those people mainly suffered from the loss of ignorance of Europe, and the Black Singen Consortium took the initiative to advertise in the Far East, so it was difficult not to be fooled.

In fact, even the East African government was fooled by this, but fortunately, the staff of the Heixingen consortium and Ernst reported the incident, otherwise it would have been a joke.

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