Henry should not have made this call to Roque, but to the mayor. After all, Louis Botha was suing the Johannesburg City Government, not the Johannesburg Police Department, so it was not Roque's turn to come forward in this matter. p>
The mayor took the train to Pretoria that afternoon, and Roque returned to Ziwei Town from get off work early.
No plague patients or suspected plague patients have been found in Ziwei Town for five consecutive days. There are still police and doctors on duty at the entrance to Ziwei Town. Ziwei Public School has not yet lifted its closure. During the entire plague period, Ziwei Public School
No one was infected with the plague, and the Governor's Office recently commended Ziwei Public School.
This praise is more useful than any kind of advertisement. Ziwei Public School is a blessing in disguise, and it is estimated that it will continue to expand enrollment in the next school year to meet the growing demand for admissions.
Phyllis is now able to enter and leave Ziwei School freely, so she can meet Roark briefly.
"We have now received more than a thousand applications for admission. The existing school buildings and dormitories are not enough. To meet all the admission needs, the campus must be at least doubled. Principal Sophia is a little worried. With so many people, Principal Sophia is afraid
The quality of teaching will decline." Phyllis has been at Ziwei Public School recently and doesn't know what is happening outside.
There is a huge difference between Ziwei Public School and schools in the UK. In 1870, the UK promulgated the "Compulsory Education Act" and began to universally implement compulsory education. However, it was limited to objective conditions. The teaching quality of public schools was poor, the management was not strict, and the students were mixed, so the rich
People are still used to sending their children to aristocratic schools to receive elite education.
The seats in aristocratic schools are very precious. In order to reflect the value of aristocratic schools, sometimes aristocratic schools would rather idle some educational resources than enroll even one more student.
The educational principle of Ziwei Public School is to educate without distinction. Although the software and hardware level of Ziwei Public School has reached a first-class level and is not inferior to the aristocratic schools in the UK, Ziwei Public School has a problem in recruiting students.
There are no special requirements. Even farmers around Ziwei Public School can send their children to Ziwei Public School to study. This is incredible to Sophia.
Education also has costs. Although Ziwei Public School can receive subsidies from the city government, that subsidy is a drop in the bucket compared to the operation of Ziwei Public School. The reason why the number of students in aristocratic schools is small has a lot to do with the high tuition fees.
, a similar aristocratic school in the UK, the annual tuition fee is more than fifty pounds. The tuition fee of Ziwei Public School is five pounds per student. Such a small tuition fee is not even enough to pay the salary to the teaching staff.
Of course, Rock would not explain how much it would cost parents outside of Johannesburg to send their children to Ziwei Public School for education. The admission quota for Ziwei Public School in Cape Town costs one thousand pounds each.
Most of the income goes to Ziwei Public School.
"Tell Principal Sophia not to worry. A group of college students will come to Johannesburg soon. Let Principal Sophia make the first choice when the time comes. As long as the teaching staff team is built well, the teaching quality will be no problem." Roque is not worried about this problem. The so-called teaching quality
, the judging criteria are not uniform. To put it bluntly, whether the teaching quality is good or not is not decided by the parents of the students. In the next school year, the middle school department of Ziwei Public School will start recruiting students. By then, it is the middle school department that has the final say on whether the teaching quality is good or not.
After all, the middle school is also part of Ziwei Public School.
The middle school is currently under construction, right next to the current boys' school. The school area is larger than the boys' and girls' schools combined, and it will be able to accommodate 5,000 students studying in the school at the same time in the future.
Such a large school cannot be built in a day or two. Fortunately, there are not many students in the first year of the middle school department. It is estimated that there will be no more than 500 people. Therefore, the amount of work is greatly reduced, and it can be used as the number of students increases in the future.
As we continue to expand, we still have plenty of time.
It is precisely because of this that the standards of the middle school department are very high from the beginning.
Most of the buildings in boys' and girls' schools are still wooden buildings. The middle schools generally use marble permanent buildings, supplemented by steel bars and cement, so that once the school is built, it will last for more than a hundred years without needing to be renovated.
"Recently, someone suggested that the school should add German, French, and Dutch courses. Principal Sofia and I are a little worried that this may conflict with the requirements of the Governor's Palace." Phyllis and Roque walked side by side outside Ziwei Town.
On the grass, the big man followed Felice step by step. A little later came Tang En in military uniform and several armed policemen. They kept a distance of more than ten meters from Roque and Felice.
The environment of Ziwei Town is now well-known. The trees surrounding Ziwei Town are all planted with bigster trees. Under the trees is a lawn with a dedicated person in charge. Now it is November again. The lavender bigster flowers are hanging all over the branches, and there are flowers falling under the trees.
There is a dense layer of petals, and when you walk among them, the faint fragrance of flowers permeates the surroundings, and you can see a sea of flowers, which is really refreshing.
"We need to be cautious about this matter. Let's wait and see. Let me explore the tone of the 'Education Committee' first. Maybe we can set German, French and Dutch as interest courses." Rock is also cautious, although in principle, Rock doesn't want to
German, French and Dutch courses were offered at Ziwei Public School, but now Ziwei Public School even has Chinese courses. Offering German, French and Dutch can dilute the presence of Chinese.
In the long run, it is actually necessary to open courses in these small languages. Adelaide originally wanted to eliminate the Boer culture, so it was mandatory that all schools in the Transvaal and Orange were not allowed to use Dutch, and only English was allowed.
Emphasize Britain's status as a sovereign state in this way.
After the Boer War, with the demise of the Transvaal and the Orange State, all the Boers became British subjects. After the Boer War, the national cohesion of the Boers was further strengthened. The Boers living in the four Cape Colonies have
There are 600,000 people, far more than the number of British whites. They have the same culture, religion and language. The Anglo-Boer War greatly promoted the formation of their national identity mentality. The current Boers are not purely of Dutch descent.
Among them are Germans, French, and even Jews from Russia. They are now a brand new nation, the Afrikaners.
After the Boer War, the so-called "African Language Association" appeared in the Transvaal and Orange. At this time, the status of Dutch was declining and a new language emerged, so it was no longer necessary to suppress Dutch. "Henry and Owen also said the same. The number of Boer students in the school is very small, and the number of Chinese students is too many. If anyone notices this, there will still be trouble." Phyllis reminded softly, Ziwei Public School
Now it has become the business card of Ziwei Town and even Johannesburg, so you still have to be careful.
Although Rock never said it, Phyllis, Henry, and Owen are all good people, and everyone knows what Rock is thinking.
He knew that Phyllis, Henry, and Owen would not interfere, but would only try their best to cooperate with Roark. After all, Roark had long ago emphasized the significance of the existence of Chinese Americans in consolidating British rule. It seemed that this was not obvious before.
After the signing of the "Peace Agreement", the influence of the Boers became more and more obvious, and Rock's prediction was becoming reality step by step, and it was inevitable that Phyllis, Henry, and Owen would not cooperate.
"It doesn't matter. In the future, Ziwei Public School will become an aristocratic school like Eton College. The annual enrollment quota will not exceed 300 students. It will not be so easy to enter Ziwei Public School. I am new to the gold mine.
Build a school, and then transfer all the Chinese students to the new campus over the gold mine, and separate it from Ziwei Public School." Luo Ke already had a countermeasure, and before anyone noticed the Chinese students at Ziwei Public School, Luo Ke
Gram will transfer Chinese students away.
In fact, the construction of the new school building has basically been completed. The hardware facilities are better than those at Ziwei Public School. Because of the extensive use of reinforced concrete, the quality of the new school building is guaranteed, and Chinese students can move in at any time.
Different from Ziwei Public School, the new school building will not be open to public enrollment. Even Luo Ke does not intend to let the outside world know the existence of the school. The Luo Ke gold mine is surrounded by Luo Ke's private property, because some situations in the gold mine need to be kept secret. Now
There is a restricted area around the Luoke Gold Mine, and even Chinese are not allowed to enter or leave at will, so safety is still guaranteed.
"Transfer all Chinese students away? Do you need to transfer teachers from Ziwei Public School?" Phyllis was surprised. Even Phyllis didn't know this information.
"No, there are teachers at the new school." Rock smiled happily. This was indeed an unexpected surprise.
Roque once thought that at this stage in 1902, few Chinese were receiving higher education, so it was probably impossible to support a school with the strength of the teaching staff needed by the Chinese.
The fact surprised Rock very much. Since the middle of the last century, Chinese people have gone to Europe, the United States, and Japan to study. Now, decades have passed, and there are still many Chinese people who have received the new Western education.
The crux of the problem is that after receiving new Western education, many Chinese returned to the Qing Dynasty and found that the knowledge they learned was of no use. Some graduates from Yale University worked as radio operators after returning to China, and graduates from Cambridge University only worked as radio operators after returning to China.
You can go to the customs and work as the lowest level customs declarer, so there are senior talents headed by Xia Zuo, Duncan, and George coming to Johannesburg.
Currently, in Johannesburg, there are dozens of Chinese who have received the new Western education. They are enough to support a new school to provide education for the next generation of Chinese in Johannesburg.
After the new school is established, it will not take many years for the second generation of Chinese talents to appear like a spurt. Ten years later, there will be Chinese in all levels of government in the Transvaal. By then, Rock will no longer