Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 850 Development General Bureau ([-])

On February 1651, 2, on the sandy road outside the Linxi branch of the General Administration of Development, a group of more than ten children were lining up in a long line, walking along the side of the road.These children seemed to be less than ten years old, and they were lively and active, so they fought non-stop along the way, and the older children in the lead asked everyone to stop and organize the queue several times.But it didn't take long for the queue to be organized, and it got messed up again amidst the children's laughter, which made the leading older child helpless.

"Aren't they all children from the logging camp children's school?" Ma Wenqiang, the second generation who actually presided over the work of the local Development Bureau and the son of Ma Ganzuma, the former chairman of the executive committee, smoked a pipe and asked slowly.

"Yes, it is indeed a child from Linxi Forest Children's School." The assistant immediately replied, "The other schools are not in this direction. By the way, in the morning, someone from the direction of Tieling Town came to tell me that they planned to go Fort Lindsey set up some schools, and I told him to wait when you went out to inspect. Now look at this..."

Ma Wenqiang was taken aback when he heard the words, and after asking his assistant for details, he agreed without hesitation, and only heard him say: "They don't want to build all the schools in Tieling? They, anyway, Linxi, Majiawan, Jinshui, and Daoye will be handed over to Tieling sooner or later, and the foundation of Tieling County will be here in the future. Well, you can handle this matter, which one do they like? The land is granted to them, and it is indeed a good place to build a school with beautiful mountains and clear waters.”

It turned out that in the morning, Tieling Town sent a few staff members with a letter of introduction to Fort Linxi, where the General Administration of Development had taken over the land reclamation work, and asked the General Administration of Development to grant them a piece of land (usually of poor quality and unsuitable for cultivation. rotten land), used to build teacher training colleges.This kind of thing is a piece of cake for the Development Bureau, and it does not violate the principle, so Ma Wenqiang agreed to this matter just now, and asked his assistant to accompany the Tieling people to select the school site and measure the land. .

It is said that with the opening of the Northwest Railway, there are now more and more people in Tieling and its surrounding areas. Tieling Town has more than 6500 formal residents (excluding black laborers), which is the largest; and neighboring Linxi Fort, Ma Jiawan Fort, Jinshui Fort, and Inaba Fort also each have one or two thousand residents, and the total population has exceeded 3000, which is larger than the population of Jingjiang County (about 9500 people in the county), which was newly established last year.

With the increase in population, the education of so many school-age children has gradually been put on the agenda.At the beginning, Tieling Town was developed not long ago, and the Northwest Railway had not been built here. At that time, the education of the few children here was all up to the local government to find a way - the East Coast Republic had huge military expenditures (accounted for [-]% of the total financial expenditure), leading to a serious shortage of education funds, so the coastal areas have insufficient teachers themselves, and there is no spare capacity to support the inland.Even if Tieling is the second heavy industry base that the executive committee focuses on, it can't get many teachers.

In desperation, the government of Tieling town had no choice but to select people with a high level of education from various departments and enterprises—usually junior high school graduates, soldiers from Bingtuanbao, etc.—to act as temporary teachers to teach students knowledge.As for textbooks, people in Tieling agreed that textbooks from coastal areas should not be copied, because inland areas and coastal areas are very different in all aspects, and it is not appropriate to continue to use old textbooks.Therefore, Tieling requested the Ministry of Education to compile a more superficial teaching material for them, so as to be able to adapt to the actual situation in the local area and achieve better teaching effects.

For example, Tieling Primary School, the only primary school in Tieling Town at present, uses half-way monk teachers and relatively simple textbooks to teach the children of local workers knowledge.In order to encourage these half-way monks to improve their professional level, Tieling also formulated many incentive measures. For example, they stipulated that all school teachers, including Tieling Primary School, enjoy uniform treatment that is higher than that of civil officials of the corresponding level; and, According to the latest policy, the teachers of each school and the civil servants of the corresponding departments can be transferred to each other.These policies have undoubtedly greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the teachers, making them spend a lot of spare time on improving their professional level, and the teaching quality has indeed been improved to a certain extent.

Primary education is undoubtedly the most important to today's East Coast Republic, because it can cultivate a large number of literate people, which is even more important than primary and high school education.You must know that there are only six junior high schools in the entire east coast, located in Dongfang County, Ping'an County, Zhenhai County, Qingdao County, Meilin County and Luocha County, and the number of students is limited; there is only one high school, namely Natural Science Research The affiliated high school.

Such narrow coverage of middle school education, as well as inconvenient transportation and natural conditions make the seven-year compulsory education stipulated by the state an empty talk.From a practical point of view, under the reality that education funds are heavily occupied by military expenditures, it is quite good to be able to complete the primary education of most school-age children (at least 70%) nationwide to the greatest extent. It's too much to think about, it's not realistic at all.

The main purpose of primary education, according to some people in the Ministry of Education, is: "...teaching how to read and write simple practical essays, so that you can understand official documents; build up your body and enhance your resistance to diseases, so that you can bear the burden of illness when you grow up. The relatively arduous work of building the country and overseas colonies is the backbone of the country's development; it attaches great importance to cultivating the concept of the country, and each school distributes an album of national historical events, and hangs portraits of current national leaders..."

It can be seen that the requirement of the Ministry of Education and local governments for primary education is to cultivate a large number of qualified and strong "cannon fodder talents"—including both "combat cannon fodder" and "construction cannon fodder".To this end, all primary schools under the Ministry of Education, regardless of whether they are inland or coastal areas, have uniformly implemented the primary school student training plan formulated by the Ministry of Education.

The plan generally includes: [-]. Organize outdoor collective camping activities in summer. According to different local conditions, there are popular camping sites such as beach camping, forest camping, grassland camping, mountain camping, and hot springs.These camping activities can greatly exercise the children's physical fitness, courage and teamwork ability, and the effect is quite good; second, male and female students receive professional training separately, for example, boys have to accept military queues, agricultural knowledge and gymnastics; girls To accept courses such as medical care, hygiene knowledge, tailoring and home economics, etc., in short, they are very practical courses, and students are more willing to take them, because parents will take the trouble to tell them that these are necessary for them to enter the society in the future skills.

Considering that some parents are unwilling to send their children to school for various reasons—some because of biased understanding, some because of heavy housework (children are also laborers), and some because of long distances—no matter whether it is the central The Ministry of Education or the local governments of the settlements have formulated various measures to encourage parents to send their children to primary schools.

For example, in addition to retaining the two yuan a year school subsidy that the Ministry of Education uniformly distributed to parents, they also formulated various additional scholarship measures.The amount of scholarships depends on the actual financial capacity of local governments. Of course, donations from local rich households and enterprises are also indispensable. For example, Tieling Town has a "steel scholarship" jointly established by various enterprises, and the Southern Railway Company in the subsidiary of the Southern Railway Corporation has contributed Sponsored "South Railway Scholarship", many primary schools in Zhenhai County have "Ship Scholarship" and so on.In addition, some wealthy households also contributed a lot in this process. For example, when the son of former executive committee chairman Liu Weimin got married last time, he donated a scholarship of 2000 yuan to a primary school in Miannong Township, Dongfang County, the capital. .

In principle, these scholarships are distributed to students with better academic performance or outstanding progress, but in the actual operation process, some students with heavy family burdens (needing children to help with work) will also receive subsidies, and those who have a long journey to school Students will also receive subsidies. All in all, the coverage of scholarships is relatively large, which has somewhat increased the enrollment rate of students and enabled more children to obtain valuable educational opportunities.

Of course, for children in rural areas, even with all kinds of scholarships, they still cannot guarantee 222% enrollment, or even if they enroll, they cannot guarantee that they can go to the classroom every day or finish a class every day. All fifth grade courses.We only need to look at Tieling Primary School to see what the situation is like. Currently, the school has 18 students in five grades. Among the parents, there are 96 government employees, 13 factory workers, 3 businessmen (including shopkeepers and hawkers), and doctors. There are 8 people, 29 soldiers, and 55 technical engineers. Only 24.8 parents are farmers, accounting for [-]%, which is extremely inconsistent with the proportion of the local agricultural population of more than [-]%.

The low enrollment rate of rural children is certainly related to the heavy housework and inconvenient transportation, but it is also related to personal ideology.So, how to get farmers' kids into class instead of wasting their precious childhoods mowing pig grass, herding sheep and cattle, taking care of younger siblings, cooking for the family, working on construction sites to earn money, tending to livestock, etc. The messy housework is definitely a very important job at present.

At present, this kind of work is mainly done by people in the army. They call on veterans (generally important figures in the countryside) to set an example by calling on veterans (generally important figures in the countryside) to send their children to school through institutions such as the township military association.I believe that under their leadership, farmers will definitely follow suit to a certain extent.Of course, if this kind of measure doesn't work anymore, then the local government may have to consider taking a certain degree of coercive measures! (It’s a great event to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow up~click/Chinese website official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Pay attention to qdread WeChat official account!)

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