508、The era of honeycomb coal(2/2)
Of course, there are also recommendations for traditional Eastern classics, otherwise it would not be justified. However, the way of recommendation is very problematic. Some of them are simply not suitable for children of this age to read. Not only are they difficult to read, but they are also impossible to understand in a critical manner.
For example, what is the point of asking primary school students to read "The Story of Red Mansions" outside of class?
It’s not that the ideological and artistic quality of the work is not high enough, but as a recommended reading without explanation after class, what can primary school students learn by themselves? The yearning and envy for princes and nobles, and the emotional resonance with the idle prodigal son and beauty?
Even if there are positive gains, at the stage of children's intellectual development, their limited energy is still very valuable. Leader Zhang actually recommended that several elementary school students in Jili also read through this?
Although Hua Zhenxing never went to primary or secondary school, he also studied the complete set of Dongguo textbooks by himself. Old Man Yang found him the textbooks published by Dongguo in the mid-1980s.
Comparing the changes in textbooks over the past forty years, which contents have disappeared, which contents have been added in a blunt way, and which extracurricular readings some people have organized and recommended, a certain trend becomes obvious.
The educational exchanges and cooperation between the Kingdom of Kiri and the Kingdom of East are aimed at being independent and establishing the cultural traditions they need. They have never thought of cultivating children's admiration for Tom and Mary through education in the East Mandarin language.
Given the history of the country itself, why take such a detour?
The second issue pointed out in the report is about mathematics textbooks. Although the content is not extensive, it is also critical.
Shen Sishu also received education in Dongguo since he was a child. Comparing the textbooks of that year, he believes that in this set of mathematics textbooks, the knowledge points are becoming more and more fragmented and the systematization is getting weaker and weaker.
Such teaching materials may be more suitable for two types of people, one is children with very good talents, and the other is schools with excellent teachers.
Relatively fragmented knowledge points seem to reduce the difficulty, but actually raise the requirements. Teachers need to provide systematic and in-depth explanations in class to learn more solidly. In short, it is not conducive to self-study.
The most important task of mathematics education is to cultivate logical thinking ability, and the systematization of knowledge structure is fundamental.
The third issue pointed out in the report is about Chinese language education. Team leader Zhang provided a complete set of Chinese language teaching materials for grades one to ten, but Chinese language is not part of compulsory education in Kilili Country at all!
The situation in Kilili Country is very special, because the local dialect has no written language, and the official languages used by the colonists in the past generations are English, Lanxi and Hansi. Except for a few "elites", the locals do not know them at all.
Some people say that Dongguo is difficult to learn, mainly due to two points. One is the difference between pinyin script and symbolic script, and the other is the difference between inflectional language family and analytic language family. However, these two difficulties do not exist for the local indigenous people.
The local dialect belongs to a primitive analytical language family, so when local people learn Dongguo, at least in terms of oral conversation, it is easier than learning Yinyin.
Through several years of hard work, such as repeatedly playing Charles's twelve speeches in various neighborhoods and staging various new drama programs, the local children have mastered daily conversation in Dongguan.
Therefore, the New Guinea government’s decision to designate Eastern Mandarin as the official language has a realistic basis.
In primary and secondary schools, everyone is still learning Eastern Mandarin. What’s the point of adding another English language? This will not only lead to confusion in language education, but also a great waste of social and intellectual resources.
Moreover, given the current situation in the Black Wilderness Continent, even if you want to learn a "foreign language" in the future, the first choice will be Lanxi rather than Yinyin.
In the country's university education plan, there are foreign language courses, and in the future there will be two key directions: document translation and business translation, but there is no compulsory education in primary and secondary schools. At least it is not urgently needed in the country.
The fourth point pointed out in the report is that when the above three points are combined, an incredible conclusion will be drawn - the other party has already prepared a complete set of plans.
Charles had just led the delegation over, and before the education working group in charge of Shen Sishu could say anything, Zhang Buying came up with a complete set of educational work guidance plans tailored for the Kingdom of Kilili.
The Ministry of Education of the Eastern Kingdom is not the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Miles, so it is impossible to have a dedicated team to do this, but in fact, there are people who have done targeted work in advance.
Before the arrival of the delegation from Guilin, various contacts and contacts between the two sides lasted for half a year.
It may be that during this period, someone had prepared this educational assistance plan, including a complete set of teaching aids specifically for the Kingdom of Kilili, and was waiting for Shen Sishu to lead a team to visit.
The plan was probably not made by Zhang Buying himself, but was provided to the country of Jili through him in a way that was almost irresistible and would not arouse suspicion or vigilance under normal circumstances.
Judging from the content of the textbooks, the compilation is not that difficult. I just selected a set of twelve-year textbooks from primary school to high school and adapted them into ten-year textbooks based on the school system of the Kingdom of Kilili.
This matter can definitely be solved in a short period of time, but it requires someone to do it specifically. Maybe in the eyes of the other party, these country bumpkins from Jili Country have no discerning ability.
But in this case, the situation becomes even more strange, because the educational work plan of Kilili Kingdom is not confidential to Dongguo, and there have been various communications in the early stage.
Zhang Buying should be aware of the needs of the country, but he deliberately formulated such an incorrect plan. "I don't care what you need, but what I think you need!" - This is the attitude of Team Leader Zhang.
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This is no small matter for the country. The planning of educational work is a core issue involving the destiny of the country and the nation. As a senior official in the field of education, does Zhang Buying really not understand?
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster, so who is this Zhang Buying working for? At least in this matter, whose will is he carrying out?
The fifth issue pointed out in the report is related to the above-mentioned questions. The analysis is not only the teaching aid materials for primary and secondary schools, but also the university aid construction plan provided by Zhang Buying, focusing on the content of subject construction.
This is completely inconsistent with the content of the higher education plan that the country has formulated.
Kiri Country plans to build three new universities within five years, including a comprehensive university, an industrial university, and a normal university. Kiri Country's middle schools do not have liberal arts and science subjects, and neither do its universities.
This is not to say that Ke Fuzi, Hua Zhenxing and others valued theory over literature. On the contrary, they all attached great importance to humanistic education.
Literature, art, law, philosophy, finance, administration, and political studies do not have separate undergraduate majors in universities, but are open to undergraduates from all majors.
Different schools have different characteristics, and the current conditions are limited. We still need to look forward to better development in the future.
The academic system of Kirikanuni University is five years. No matter which major students are studying, whether they are studying mechanics or electronics, they must choose at least one of them to study.
This is not an elective concept, but a compulsory course, but you can choose according to your interests and talents. If some majors have special requirements, students will be required to choose a certain type of humanities.
If someone has a wide range of interests and the energy allows, he or she can choose one or two more subjects, which is equivalent to an elective or a minor.
Huazhenxing's educational philosophy is so "narrow" and "stubborn", and it is also implemented in the requirements for educational work.
However, although the educational assistance plan provided by Zhang Buying is very detailed, it does not follow this model at all. Almost two-thirds of the undergraduate independent majors are not in the Guiliguo plan.
This makes it very difficult for Shen Sishu's team to deal with it. The other party is so enthusiastic and the aid plan is so well prepared. If they reject this good offer in full, how can we talk about future cooperation?
If you do that, no matter who looks at it, the country of Jili will be ungrateful!
In fact, Huazhenxing has never thought about taking advantage of Dongguo in the field of educational cooperation. He has only one key project in charge, which is cooperation with the Wucheng Campus of Feigong University.
This project is very "small", but its potential impact is very large, because the preparation work for the Wucheng branch has already started, and it also involves the relationship with the Kunlun spiritual world.
During this period of time, through the contacts between Niu Yiping and others, the private negotiations between the Ministry of Education of Kilili Country and Feigong University were almost in progress. As long as the higher-ups nodded, Feigong University would be happy to see the results and implement them immediately.
The request from the Kingdom of Kilin is very simple: it donates money to build the second phase of the Wucheng campus, and requires the campus to recruit one international student from the Kingdom of Kilin in each class every year.
These students do not need special treatment. They live in the same dormitories and take the same courses as Dongguo students. The required educational funds are also provided by Guilin, and there is no need to apply for special subsidies.
Kilili Kingdom will also send people to help manage this group of international students, and the management is stricter than that of Dongguo School.
But after Shen Sishu submitted the letter of intent for this cooperation project, Team Leader Zhang over there earnestly persuaded him not to do so.
The total budget for the second phase of the Wucheng campus project is four to five billion. What is the wrong place to spend this money?
It's just sending 100 transfer foreign students every year. Dongguo can definitely make better arrangements, such as recommending a group of other universities and setting up a separate class for foreign students from China, which doesn't necessarily require money from China.
Team leader Zhang gave a list of 20 candidate universities. Even if each university has a class of international students with 25 students in each class, that would still be 5,000 students per year!
Whether this plan can be implemented is another matter, but it can be discussed along this line. Even if only a part of it can be implemented in the end, it will be much better than the cooperation plan of the Wucheng campus.
Zhang Buying’s question does make sense. Land for university construction is not expensive, and construction costs are small. Teaching, research and experimental equipment are very expensive, and other expenses are even higher. The cost of the second phase of Wucheng campus is 4 to 5 billion. .
If a formal cooperative relationship is established, China will have to invest an amount of funds every year just to have 100 more places for international students?
This is indeed what Huazhenxing thinks, but what he wants is not just a hundred international students every year, but also the graduates of the entire campus.
It is impossible to transfer all students, but you can transfer as many as you can. The Fangguan Development Branch is located next to it and recruits people every year. The professional setting of the campus has also been inspected and approved.
Therefore, although Team Leader Zhang’s alternative suggestion sounds good, it is not what Huazhen Business needs. There are 5,000 international students every year, who are you kidding me? There is no way that the country can send so many qualified students!
If there are really so many qualified middle school graduates, it would be better for our own universities to start them first. If there are no students, what kind of universities can we start?
If we make up the numbers randomly, what should they learn? Should they go to the colorful world to learn bad things? That would not only harm the students of Dongguo, but also ruin the image of Jiliguo.
However, Team Leader Zhang seemed to be persuading him with good intentions, but in fact he was rejecting the most important cooperation project with China, even if Feicheng was willing.
This is very difficult to handle, and it's really hard for Ka Dehua to do it.
Charles was originally in a good mood, because many of the projects involved in this meeting were in line with expectations, but when it came to this matter, no one was happy anymore.
Hua Zhenxing frowned and said: "The minimum requirement is to complete the cooperation with the Wucheng Campus of Feigong University. Is it still possible now?"
Shen Sishu: "I didn't expect that I would stumble on this matter. If the other party does not change the person in charge, it is basically impossible to talk about it anymore according to the current situation. If we want to talk, we can only talk according to the other party's ideas.
Team leader Zhang seems to be very enthusiastic, but in fact he doesn’t want to hear our specific needs at all, and he makes it impossible for you to find fault with us."
Hua Zhenxing: "There is no reason for him to do this. On the surface, he would rather pay more. There is definitely something wrong with this Zhang Buying...Dafeng Harvest, have you figured out what happened to him?"
Wang Fengshou: "This is in Dongguo. It is not suitable and convenient for our intelligence system to investigate senior officials of Dongguo. If it is discovered, it will affect many aspects at this sensitive moment..."
Hua Zhenxing interrupted him and said, "Speak directly, what solution did you come up with?" He knew Wang Fengshou's temper very well, and when he heard the words, he knew that he must have thought of another solution.
Wang Fengshou smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. You Fang has returned to Dongguo. I contacted him and told him about the situation. He advised us not to investigate Zhang Buying. He tried to find out and said he would give it to him today.
I have an answer.
But it’s past twelve o’clock now, and Boss You hasn’t contacted me yet. If even he finds it difficult..."
"It's not difficult at all, I'm just a little angry. It seems that today's infiltration methods are very powerful. In some cases, communication is not easy, so I'd better come over in person, so it's a little late."
Following the sound, You Fang walked into the courtyard, and then said in surprise: "You guys are just drinking here, and you don't even have a plate of peanuts?"
Chapter completed!