Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 42 Admissions Questions
Cheng Nuo brought breakfast early in the morning. Before he had time to eat a few bites, he saw Cai Yuanpei hurried over with a newspaper in his hand. After looking around, he found his place. just come to him.

Seeing the person coming, Cheng Nuo conveniently divided the breakfast he bought into two portions.

"Cai Gongzao, have you eaten? The breakfast I just bought is still hot. Would you like to have some?"

"Zhiyuan, I don't even have the heart to eat here. I've been fed up by these newspapers." Cai Yuanpei took out the newspapers and put them on the table, and tapped them with his index finger: "I see some people in society, It's really not enough to succeed, but they have to get involved in our Peking school's own affairs!"

"People are like iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you'll be hungry. Mr. Cai didn't take care of his health. Didn't he follow the wishes of some villains?" Cheng Nuo took the newspaper before he could read it, so he handed over the breakfast first: "Mr. Zhangtou’s small enema, made of starchy red yeast rice water and bean curd residue, is eaten with a bamboo stick, absolutely authentic.”

Cai Yuanpei originally wanted to refuse, but after smelling the aroma, he also felt a little hungry, so he took the breakfast: "Old Zhang's vegetarian enema, it's true that I haven't eaten it for some days, but Zhiyuan, you'd better look at it first." Look at the newspaper I brought over."

After wiping his mouth, Cheng Nuo tidied the table a little, opened the newspaper and started to read.

The core idea of ​​the front page headline is only one, and that is to reiterate the "female ban".

The so-called female prohibition refers to the fact that before the May [-]th Movement, the school system stipulated that only male and female students at the elementary school stage could study in the same school, and universities were prohibited from enrolling male and female students at the same time.

But before the May 84th Movement, among the [-] institutions of higher education established in China, there was not a single higher education school for women.

As a result, many girls faced the embarrassing situation of having no school to attend after completing their secondary school studies, except for a few Christian colleges 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. It only teaches women about women's morality, and does not teach them how to learn to be an independent person."

Criticism of female prohibition started very early.

Looking at the first head of education who was still having breakfast next to him, Cheng Nuo was a little confused about the school system
"Cai Gong, when the Renzi Guichou school system was formulated, why didn't it clearly state that secondary and higher education can be co-educational? It may not be so easy to change the system now."

Cai Yuanpei put the small enema aside, and sighed: "It is not easy to make progress today. In order to break the feudalism, we did not hesitate to move out of social reality and clearly stated that elementary schools must not allow co-education. With limited financial resources, it is impossible to set up a special girls' school in addition to the boys' school, and many daughters will lose their education."

"However, there are many local resistances, and the new government is not able to forcefully implement it. When it is implemented, it is changed to allow elementary schools to be in the same school, and girls' middle schools, normal schools, and higher normal schools can be set up separately for girls above elementary school. It is really helpless."

Cai Yuanpei is also essentially a propagandist and practitioner of equality between men and women. Before the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he founded a patriotic girls' school in Shanghai with the purpose of cultivating new women with knowledge and courage. If a woman does not learn, she will not be able to stand on her own."

The improvement of Renzi Guichou's academic system is already the result of his best efforts.

Cheng Nuo handed over a few tissues: "Equal rights, not privileges. There are few students in the first place, and you have to cut off your own arm. Could it be that those who insist are those feudal diehards?"

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

It is a historical trend for women to go to school, but with its development, some people are also full of worry and anxiety, saying that after receiving too much modern education, women may look down on men, unwilling to take on the role of mothers, etc., sometimes Support and sometimes opposition, full of contradictions.

This situation is not unique to our country. At the same time, the United States also had serious problems in this regard.Some schools supported co-education very early, while some schools reformed slowly. For example, Stanford University implemented a quota system when enrolling women. The number of women enrolled was limited to less than 500, and majors were controlled in education and home economics.Universities such as Yale and Princeton refused to admit women until the 20s and 70s.

Regarding this kind of problem, Cheng Nuo showed his attitude clearly: "Cai Gong, I always thought that women can hold up half the sky, and I support equal rights and oppose any party's privileges. Now that some female students come to attend mathematics classes, it is natural to support them .”

"Women hold up half the sky, that's right." After recalling this sentence, Cai Yuanpei 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 chat for a while, but seeing that the number of people in the office gradually increased, Cai Yuanpei gave him a few words and left.

In fact, Cai Yuanpei came here for two purposes. One was to find out Cheng Nuo's views on co-educational schools; the other was to protect and appease him, to show that he and Peking University stood behind him and supported him.After all, the front foot is still praised by the society, and the back foot is criticized by others. Young and energetic will inevitably feel blocked.

Now that he saw Cheng Nuo's attitude, he was very satisfied, and he would fight back with the arts.

Naturally, Cheng Nuo wouldn't sit still. While insisting that female students could come and observe the practice, he also quietly took on a pseudonym and published short stories satirizing some so-called celebrities. Students are companions, dignified and dressed like beasts.

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

Those who have achieved the Tao will help, and Chen and Li, the pioneers of the new culture, also published their own articles, supporting gender equality, opposing privileges, and calling for co-education.

All of a sudden, literati from all walks of life rolled up their sleeves and left the stage one after another. Even Brother Xun stopped studying the inscriptions and published articles criticizing the remnants of feudalism with sharp words.

All highly educated female compatriots also began to speak out, advocating equality between men and women, publishing in both literary and vulgar languages, so that uneducated women or women with only primary education can understand the content of the articles.

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

During class questioning, some students asked Cheng Nuo his views on social issues, Cheng Nuo smiled calmly: "There are so many female students listening in class, and more and more, I think you should understand my attitude."

Cheng Nuo was naturally full of respect for seniors like the female tractor driver printed on the coins after liberation, the most authentic portrayal of women holding up half the sky, and the more the better.

As for other things, don't mention them.

The pressure from the public opinion has been resolved, but the pressure from the Beiyang government has just arrived. Some warlords are quite critical of Peking University's approach.

　Thanks to the book friend Wohai Tingbo for the reward of 500 starting coins~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)