Chapter 639: Exporting Education (First update, please subscribe)
Ten years to grow trees, a hundred years to cultivate people!
Any construction is inseparable from talents.
The most difficult and longest thing in the world is the cultivation of talents. Although Nanyang relies on talents poached from Germany, Italy and even Japan to achieve rapid development of the country's science and technology industry economy.
But anyone with any sense knows that these external help will leave sooner or later and grow old.
Therefore, as early as 5 years ago, that is, as soon as he "returned" to Borneo, Li Nian planned and built Nanyang University. As for the professors, they were basically recruited from Germany.
The university was built and professors were appointed.
Where do the students come from? Of course, they were recruited from Tangshan. The first batch of students at Nanyang University was 7,835. Except for a small number of special forces members and Nanyang expatriates, the students basically came from Tangshan.
In the next few years, although Kuching Royal University, Yongning, Yongan, Taiping, Chung Hsing, Dongning and other universities were opened successively, they did not encounter any problems in the source of students. After all, Tangshan’s There are still enough middle school students.
“…At that time, our students mainly came from Tangshan. Although the Anti-Japanese War affected all aspects, education has developed greatly. In 36 years, there were more than 480,000 middle school students in school. However, due to the efforts of the authorities and educational colleagues Through hard work, by the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the number of students in schools had increased to more than 1.2 million, instead of falling. The number of students in higher education had also increased from more than 40,000 before the war to more than 80,000 in four or five years. People, and this is only the rear area. If the liberation area is also included, the source of middle school students and college students is still very sufficient..."
On the campus of Yongning University, while walking with the commander-in-chief, Jiang Menglin reported another thing that he was most concerned about at the moment.
“So, at that time we were not worried about the student source problem, but we were worried about the school’s hardware problem.”
As the president of Yongning University, Jiang Menglin resigned along with Mr. Song three years ago, and then At Nanyang's invitation, he participated in the establishment of Yongning University. What he was most worried about at that time was not the professors, but the hardware including dormitories, teaching buildings, and especially educational equipment.
But only a few months later, he found that his worries were unnecessary. Not only was the university's construction speed very fast, even the teaching equipment was world-class, most of which were imported from the United States. The latest teaching equipment ordered.
It is precisely because of this that he is ambitious to establish the first university in Nanyang - he wants to compete with Nanyang University. Relying on Tangshan's reputation, he has a natural advantage in recruiting students, so, In just three years, Yongning University has become a presence not inferior to Nanyang University in Nanyang. As for the graduate school, it has gathered more than 4,000 outstanding students from Tangshan.
But it was at this time that the drastic changes in Tangshan dealt an unprecedented blow to his ambitions - his source of students was gone.
For this reason, after the arrival of the commander-in-chief, Jiang Menglin specifically mentioned the issue of students.
“Although there are hundreds of thousands of middle school students in Nanyang now, less than 87,000 will graduate from high school this year, only 79,000 next year, and only 75,000 the year after that. It will have to wait until five to five years to break through 100,000 again. "People, this will inevitably affect the student supply of various universities, so if the student supply problem is not solved, I am worried that our higher education will be unsustainable. Although the fertility rate has been considerable in recent years, it cannot wait until more than ten years later."
Listening to him mentioning the issue of students, Li Yian nodded in agreement and said.
“This is indeed a problem. In the past few years, we have relied on temporary schools to supplement the student supply. However, there are only so many students in the temporary school. When they graduate, the student supply will be cut off.”< br>
The "temporary schools" in Li Yian's words are "exile students" recruited from Tangshan. They include primary school students, junior high school students, and high school students. Due to the changes in the situation in Tangshan, there are enough students who have fled to the south and south of the Yangtze River from all over the country. There were hundreds of thousands of them. After they arrived in the south, they encountered many problems in life and teaching, so Nanyang sent people to lobby them to come to Nanyang. Later, a large number of teachers and students came to Nanyang.
After they arrived in Nanyang, they were placed in temporary schools in various places to continue their education there.
"Where is the King's School? The King's School should still have some students."
Li Yi'an specifically mentioned the King's School. When the King's School enrolled students, they classified those students as primary school students and junior high school students. Recruiting from school, some of them are now in high school, but they are not included in the statistics of the Ministry of Education.
This is also the most special thing about King's School. It is independent from the country's education system. Of course, the education methods implemented there are also at different stages.
"Looking back, I will ask King's School to contact the education department and count how many high school students there have been in the past few years." Li Yi'an said.
“Your Excellency, in the final analysis, the King’s School is just like a university. It is also a root without roots. Without the supplement of Tangshan, there will be fewer graduates.”
Jiang Menglin bluntly pointed out that King's School was not the root of the cure. After all, King's School's students came from Tangshan just like the university.
Now that the sources from Tangshan have been cut off, there is a problem with the university’s student resources, and the King’s School is not much better.
Then he said.
“If you want to fundamentally solve the problem, you must expand the source of students.”
“Principal Jiang, do you have any good suggestions?”
“Recruit International students."
Jiang Menglin said directly.
"There are almost 10 million overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Adding the Bay Island and Hong Kong Island, recruiting international students should solve part of the problem. If we can recruit 1,000 more people, we can recruit 1,000 more people. If necessary, I think it should be implemented in overseas Chinese schools. In addition, we encourage the establishment of overseas Chinese middle schools, just like the Ministry of Education has brought schools in Zamboanga and Surabaya under its management. I think that as long as local conditions permit, we can set up overseas Chinese schools and bring them into the management of the Ministry of Education and dispatch teachers. , provide teaching materials, make full use of the resources of overseas Chinese, and even set up overseas Chinese schools in the United States and Cuba. In a word, make full use of the resources of the overseas Chinese population in various places.” Agricultural revival, and then advocated limiting the population shortage. After arriving in Nanyang, Jiang Menglin did not understand why Nanyang encouraged births at first. However, through observation and understanding in the past three years, he realized that the fundamental reason why Nanyang encouraged births was the lack of labor force-even if Now, when the population has exceeded 37 million, with the prosperity of industries, the labor force is still tight, so much so that the industrial circles have called in newspapers to further increase the introduction of foreign labor to alleviate the labor shortage in Nanyang.
This also caused a fundamental change in his view of population - a large population is not necessarily a burden. As long as there are industries to absorb excess labor, a seemingly large population may become a dividend. Because of this, he even reflected on his views on population and wrote to his former colleagues to discuss these issues together.
Now, the shortage of university students in Nanyang is essentially due to insufficient population. After all, at that time, Nanyang University’s admissions process faced the entire Tangshan. Now that the door in Tangshan cannot be opened, let’s find a way among the overseas Chinese!
“Support expatriate education…”
After thinking for a moment, Li Yian said.
“Well, it is indeed necessary to support overseas education, whether it is to expand the role of students, maintain our national traditions, and promote the inheritance of national culture, um...”< br>
After a pause, Li Yian said again.
“The Ministry of Education will formulate a charter to first establish overseas Chinese schools in Nanyang and promote Chinese education for overseas Chinese, but...”
Turning to look at Jiang Menglin, Li Yian said.
"Now is different from the past. I am afraid there will be resistance to overseas Chinese school education, especially with the end of the colonial era. Localization will be the general direction of the future of the colonies, unless..."
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