Simple dormitory for Peking University students.??
Pan Yongzhen shouted to Xie Xingyao who was lying on the bed reading: "Changmao, go to class quickly!"
"Class?" Xie Xingyao adjusted his glasses and said confusedly, "Aren't all classes suspended?"
Pan Yongzhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Let's go quickly. You are a nerd who doesn't hear anything outside the window. You don't even know that our school is resuming classes."
Xie Xingyao then got out of bed with his book in his arms and asked, "What class are you going to have today?"
"I'm not sure. Anyway, I'll find out when I go to the classroom." Pan Yongzhen looked at the small mirror and straightened his head for a while before going out.
Those who live in the dormitories are poor students. For example, Xie Xingyao is from Shehong, Sichuan. He came all the way to study at Peking University with some money. He enrolled last year and was very unlucky. Peking University suspended classes just after his freshman year.
Second, classes have been suspended again.
Historically, Peking University has produced almost no celebrities in recent years, because there have been school suspensions every now and then.
Take Xie Xingyao, for example, a talented student from Peking University who could only teach in middle schools after graduation. Later, with his hard work, he gradually became a university teacher. After more than ten years of work, he became famous by writing academic works, and finally became a famous historian.
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The two went out and headed straight to the teaching building, and met a few students they didn't know on the way.
The other party stopped me and asked: "Classmate, how to get to the classroom of Agriculture?"
"Over there, you'll know if you ask all the way there," Pan Yongzhen asked curiously, "Aren't you students from Peking University?"
The other party smiled and replied: "We are from the Agricultural University."
Pan Yongzhen reminded: "There are only two or three agricultural teachers. They have left long ago after classes were suspended. You can't find anyone if you go to observe."
"What should we do?" The other party was helpless.
Pan Yongzhen was hospitable and invited: "Come to our Department of History. Anyway, you have nothing to do. It's good to listen to history as storytelling."
The other party could only smile bitterly, and some people said enviously: "You have a good principal at Peking University, and you can also call for the resumption of classes on its own. Our Agricultural University is in a miserable situation. We can only stay in school and wait. Who knows when that Li Shizeng came to Peking."
Several people came to the classroom together, only to find that it was already full.
Standing on the podium was Zhu Xizu, director of the History Department of Peking University. He asked with a smile: "Are those Peking University students?"
As a result, only one-fifth of the people raised their hands, and the rest were all from several other public universities.
"I don't know your academic progress, so I'll start with the most basic ones. Students who have already mastered it can learn on their own." Zhu Xizu said helplessly.
Classes have resumed, but the teaching has been completely messed up. Because there are not enough teachers, it is very likely that first and third grade students will sit in the same classroom.
All the teachers can do is to select some simple knowledge to teach, and then assign self-study tasks to students according to different situations after class. Liberal arts subjects are better, but science and engineering subjects are more difficult.
Xie Xingyao stood in the corner of the classroom, not listening to what the teacher said at all, and just reading the books he borrowed from the library.
Until noon, everyone came to the school cafeteria and found that the food sold there was very bad: yellow brown rice, steamed buns filled with wheat bran, pickled cabbage, and plain soup...
Whether they are senior professors, ordinary teaching assistants, or low-level employees of the school, they all line up to receive food.
Xie Xingyao even saw his fellow Sichuan professor Wu Yu holding a wheat bran steamed bun and chewing it happily. The old man was fifty-six years old. People in the Republic of China were not so well-kept and were not afraid of losing two pieces from the wheat bran steamed bun.
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At some point, a group of reporters suddenly came in and took crazy pictures of the food.
After taking the photos, I came back for an interview. I caught a professor wearing shabby clothes and asked, "How do you eat these things?"
"It would be nice if I can fill my stomach," the professor said with a wry smile, "I am a professor at Peking University, Beijing Normal University, Women's Normal University, and Agricultural University, but now I can't even afford to support my wife and children. Since the 10th year of the Republic of China,
Since then, the government has owed me a total of 44 months' salary, totaling more than 12,000 yuan. At the most outrageous time, four universities owed me salary at the same time. People said that I was teaching for nothing, and all four universities were in vain. Last month, my son fell ill, and even
The hospitalization expenses are all borrowed, so I just want to ask the National Government, when will the wages be paid?"
The reporter asked again: "Since you can live on five meters, why do you still need to teach?"
"Why do you teach? If you don't teach, can this country be saved?" the professor said angrily.
The reporters successively interviewed students and staff, and finally even went to the homes of poor professors to take photos of those with bare walls.
The next morning, many newspapers worked together to report on the education situation of the National University in Peiping.
Everyone who runs the newspaper is well-informed and knows that the central government does not support the establishment of the Peking University District. No matter how big the matter becomes, it will not anger the authorities.
In the photos published in the newspapers, many well-known professors were in deplorable condition. Not only that, but there were also photos of suspended students wandering the streets, all showing blank expressions.
The newspaper also said that Zhou Hexuan and other teachers from well-off families donated money to support the resumption of classes. However, they did not dare to use up the money all at once because they did not know when Li Shizeng would be able to solve the problem, so they saved the money to buy food.
Provided free to teachers every day.
"Ta Kung Pao" used two special pages for in-depth reporting, interviewed teachers and students from nine schools, and intuitively presented the chaos in the education circles in Beijing and Tianjin to readers.
Zhou Hexuan even criticized Li Shizeng by name in an editorial: "Not to mention the establishment of the Peking University District, the forcible merger of the nine national universities is simply a bad idea. Mr. Li Shizeng, what do you want to do? Why did you stay in Nanjing for a long time?
Are you still waiting to go north? You are the principal of the Ninth National School, you are the dean of the Peking University District, and tens of thousands of students in Beijing and Tianjin are all bargaining chips for you in your struggle for power and profit?"
This big news has been planned for a long time, and northern newspapers have covered education issues overwhelmingly. The chaos in the National Nine Schools is just the beginning, followed by hundreds of national high schools, junior high schools and elementary schools in Hebei and Rehe provinces, where teachers and grassroots
Education officials also joined in, contacting newspapers to denounce Li Shizeng's ridiculous reforms.
The content of Li Shizeng's education reform was essentially to attach importance to university education and ignore basic education. However, he did not pay enough attention to it, and the neglected groups became even more unbalanced. He completely offended the entire northern education community.
This series of reports was like thunder, causing a huge sensation in the north. Most ordinary people knew about the current educational situation for the first time. Whether they were scholars, celebrities or gentry, whether they were new or conservative, they all joined the crusade against Li Shizeng.
China is a big country in education. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, education has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even beggars know that reading is valuable.
Li Shizeng aroused public outrage this time.
These reports quickly spread to the south. Wang Zhaoming, who wanted to cause trouble for Chang Kaishen, and Chang Kaishen's direct descendants, who wanted to abolish the university district system, actually coincided with each other to add fuel to the flames.
"Shenbao" carried out a heartbreaking follow-up report with the title "Such an Education" and called on the public to donate to teachers in Beijing and Tianjin.
Li Shizeng, who was working hard to raise education funds, suddenly became a street rat that everyone yelled at. He had to leave for Peking in advance to clean up the current chaotic situation. 8