African Nationhood

Chapter 99 Internal Affairs-Education

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  After signing the quadrilateral agreement and returning to Anhai Town, Shi Jintang went to Zidi School and held a meeting of all academic staff.

There are two main contents of this meeting, one is to reform the academic system, and the other is to compile new teaching materials.

Because there are more immigrants, there are more and more young children.

Zidi Primary School in Anhai Town is no longer able to undertake the function of literacy education for immigrants.

Therefore, Shi Jintang planned to change the name of Anhai Town Zidi Primary School to Anhai Town Junior Normal School.

This place was mainly converted into a normal school to train primary education teachers. The graduates were naturally distributed to the major districts under Nanhua Company.

As for the original Anhai Town Zidi Primary School, the establishment was cancelled, and the original teachers and students were diverted.

In the future, Anhai Town will no longer be responsible for the literacy work of new immigrants. This responsibility will be delegated to each region and undertaken by the children's primary schools established in the capitals of each region.

Teachers enter the newly established Anhai Town Middle School. The school is divided into two categories, normal classes and advanced classes.

It is easy to understand that the normal class is to train teachers at the secondary education level.

Advanced classes are used to cultivate students with strong learning ability and high loyalty. These students will be the main force in studying abroad in the future.

After the planning of the school restructuring part is completed, the next step is to write new textbooks.

Shi Jintang served as the team leader and took charge personally. In addition to Ouyang Geng, Cai Shaoji and Shi Jinyong, Qin Mo and Zhong Yilin were also added as team members.

In fact, Shi Jintang has already completed most of the compilation of secondary education textbooks, such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

He only needs to find out the textbook contents of the three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry in the nine-year compulsory education stage.

For most people in this time period, it is a super existence.

Therefore, he could only compile some entry-level content, just scratching the surface.

In terms of chemistry, organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry have not yet formed a system, and most chemists are in the exploratory stage.

Mechanics and optics in physics are already considered complete subjects, while there are still many problems that need to be solved in the electrical subject.

Scholars have not yet studied thoroughly. Nikola Tesla should be hiding in a library in Prague and struggling to survive.

As for macrophysics and microphysics, there is no trace, and the important founding figures are still in the growth stage.

For example, Einstein was still a baby at this time, and Marie Curie (Madame Curie) was still studying in middle school.

Therefore, when Ouyang Geng and the others first arrived, they were all dumbfounded. This textbook was too difficult.

Especially mathematics, because Shi Jintang added some linear algebra content.

Shi Jintang could only apologize for this and gave the three of them a small meal in private.

Allow them to keep up and save students the embarrassment of teaching.

The textbooks compiled this time are mainly for the two subjects of Chinese and history, as well as adding some latest content to physical chemistry.

As a subject of Chinese, the primary level mainly focuses on learning Pinyin and Simplified Chinese characters.

At the intermediate stage, students learn rhetorical techniques, literary allusions, and various applied styles.

The difficulty lies in history. For immigrants with low educational level, the profound and complicated history is too difficult.

How to make them realize the power of Chinese civilization and continue to love Chinese civilization is the difficulty in setting up this subject.

After Shi Jintang informed Ouyang Geng and the others of his ideas, they all found this difficult.

Because most of the Chinese people's understanding of history in this era comes from folklore, storytelling, and opera stories.

Only official elites can have the opportunity to study history systematically.

It is basically impossible to extract some knowledge from it that makes people proud and carry it forward.

Shi Jintang wants to write a history book that most people can understand, and it has to be said that he has great ambitions.

Ouyang Geng and others all argued that they were not talented enough and had no experience in this field. In desperation, Shi Jintang had to assign Ouyang Geng and three others to make up the three subjects of physics, chemistry and Chinese.

He took Qin Mo and Zhong Yilin with him and started writing history textbooks.

The reason why I brought these two people with me is because they both have a basic knowledge of ancient Chinese and also have a little understanding of history.

The two of them can help him, translating and searching for some ancient literature.

Shi Jintang made a plan for history textbooks, which are divided into general outline, three periods of history and world history.

The general outline mainly summarizes the entire ancient history of Chinese civilization, and lists the names of previous dynasties in the general outline.

Teaching "Songs of Dynasties" is a very novel form of entertaining and entertaining, and students' acceptance is also higher.

The three sections of history are ancient history, ancient history, and modern history.

The ancient history part mainly lists several holy emperors in ancient times until the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, mixed with their legends and stories, which makes the teaching more interesting.

At the same time, the roots and heritage of the Han nation are extracted from myths, stories and allusions, and students are encouraged to be proud of and proud of Han culture.

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The ancient history part contains anecdotes about famous people in feudal dynasties and biographies of loyal ministers and traitorous generals, promoting the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.

In the ancient history section, Shi Jintang also "creatively" put forward the concept of "four great inventions".

And elaborates on the enlightenment effect of the "Four Great Inventions" on European civilization.

As for the secret translation of Chinese classics by European missionaries in the Ming and Qing dynasties, we also give a lengthy explanation.

In this part of the course, Shi Jintang also specially added the content of Chinese culture assimilating foreign races.

Emphasize the "fighting nation" nature of the Han people and enhance students' sense of identity and pride in Han culture.

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The modern history part mainly tells some historical facts of the Qing Dynasty, in which he focused on criticizing the Qing Dynasty's isolation from the country.

He also pointed out the narrow-mindedness and rigidity of the Manchu ruling class, but he did not criticize the feudal centralized system.

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The world history section mainly talks about the development process of the European and American powers in the past dynasties. At the same time, Shi Jintang also deepened the concept of "four ancient civilizations".

Emphasize the conditions for the emergence of ancient civilizations and the greatness of agricultural civilization.

He also specifically pointed out that among the "four major ancient civilizations", only the Chinese civilization has a long lasting history, while the other three major civilizations have cut off their inheritance.

In particular, the ancient Indian civilization had already abandoned its cultural roots because it was conquered by many powerful forces.

Now it has become a British colony and has lost its national autonomy.

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After the compilation of this history book was completed, Ouyang Geng and others admired Shi Jintang to the point of admiration.

Among these people, Zhong Yilin wrote such a passage in his memoir "Those Years of Working as a Jig beside Mr. Shi".

Mr. Shi (Emperor Taizu) was an energetic and quick-thinking man.

His analysis of European and American countries has always been penetrating, to the point, and thought-provoking.

His judgment helped me avoid many detours when formulating national policies for European and American countries.

He is also my benefactor and guiding light.

Without him, I might just be an old and corrupt scholar now.

All my life I can only pick out chapters and sentences, or I may have already become a withered bone in the grave.

His life was a great life, a life worth remembering by all the subjects of the Nanhua Empire!
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