When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the city wall of Tianjin was pushed down.
There are more and more residents gathering outside the city in the east, west, south and north. The houses are built in a mess and there is no overall plan at all. It looks like a slum in the blink of an eye.
Because land is cheap in the suburbs, Tianjin's four Hope Primary Schools are all built in the suburbs. Children in the city have to walk a long distance to go to school, but children in nearby "slums" have very convenient access.
Early in the morning, Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yong came to the school, and they brought more than ten policemen with them.
Nearly twenty people crowded into the earthen house, which was used to store debris, such as chalk, triangle rulers and other teaching tools.
Students are arriving at school one after another. Although the school has only started for less than a month, the mental outlook of these children has changed a lot. The studious ones sit in the classroom and read aloud, and the playful ones gather on the playground to play. The whole campus seems very energetic.
Feng Yong stood leaning against the door, looking at the children playing outside, and smiled sincerely: "This can be regarded as a piece of pure land in troubled times."
"It's all thanks to you." Zhou Hexuan said flatteringly.
"Hahaha, I love hearing this." Feng Yong laughed proudly.
Zhou Hexuan suddenly saw a familiar figure. He waved and shouted: "Zhang Xiaowu, come here!"
The newsboy ran up to him with his schoolbag on his back, bowed and said, "Hello, sir!"
"Yes, very polite," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "What have you learned these days?"
Zhang Xiaowu said: "I have learned a lot of characters, including Zhong, Ren, earth, mountain, river, fire, water, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten..."
"It's amazing. I've learned so much in just over half a month." Zhou Hexuan praised.
Zhang Xiaowu said happily: "It's all teacher Wen who taught me well."
"Let's go play." Zhou Hexuan patted his head and said.
After Zhang Xiaowu ran away, Feng Yongcai said with a smile: "This guy is quite clever. He might be able to achieve great success in the future."
"That's why we need to run schools and engage in education." Zhou Hexuan also smiled.
Education in the early Republic of China was divided into three types: popular education, civilian education and mass education.
To put it bluntly, popular education is to open up the people's wisdom, including speeches, newspapers, lecture halls, libraries, etc., which all fall under the category of popular education. It strives to enable the people to increase their knowledge, broaden their horizons, accept new things, etc.
Civilian education is school education in the traditional sense, striving to allow more school-age children and low-educated people to acquire knowledge.
Popular education emerged during the Northern Expedition. Scholars believe that both men and women, old and young, rich and poor, have the right to education. It is the basic education for out-of-school children, youth and adults, and it is also the continuing education and further training for people with a basic cultural background - quite a lot.
To eliminate illiteracy and improve national cultural quality.
In fact, starting from the late Qing Dynasty, simple schools similar to Hope Primary Schools began to appear across the country. They were organized with donations from local gentry and celebrities. The teaching content included self-cultivation, literacy and abacus, that is, moral education, Chinese and mathematics. The idea was similar to Zhou Hexuan's, and tuition fees were also waived.
Distribute books.
In addition, there are open-air schools, half-day schools for the poor, etc., which are all designed to eliminate illiteracy for poor children.
Although the Qing government and the successive governments of the Republic of China did not provide sufficient support, private people's school-running activities have never stopped. The Chinese nation's ability to stand for thousands of years is inseparable from advocating education. If you look at the education situation in India in later generations, you will know that the country
How big is the gap between.
There is a private educator in Tianjin named Lin Moqing. In the late Qing Dynasty, he ran 6 free primary schools (boys' schools). Later, he cooperated with the government and the gentry to establish 11 girls' primary schools. However, such schools often do not last long, and donations continue to grow.
If they don't attend, classes will have to be suspended, causing many children to miss school for the second time.
By the way, Mr. Lin Moqing is 64 years old. Although his health is not good, he was invited by Zhang Xueliang to serve as the honorary president of the "China Hope Education Foundation Tianjin Branch".
Today's first class is mathematics. The teacher's name is Zhang Yan, who graduated from the Provincial Tianjin Normal Middle School. Although Zhang Yan is already a teacher, he is actually less than 20 years old and comes from a poor background. Because normal schools exempt tuition fees, he can continue to receive education.
"In our last class, we finished learning numbers within 100. Today we are going to teach the students addition. Addition and subtraction are very useful and are often used when shopping. If you learn addition and subtraction, you can also calculate your wages when doing work in the future.
What we need to learn today is 1+1=2..."
While the math teacher was in class, some idle people gradually came outside the classroom. They were talking outside the window and seemed to be very dissatisfied with Zhang Yan. Some even urged Zhang Yan to finish class early and let Teacher Huang Fei teach. They all came to see the emperor.
Concubine's.
Feng Yong poked his head out of the utility room to take a look, and said with disdain: "A bunch of stupid people!"
"Haha." Zhou Hexuan smiled helplessly.
After finally waiting for Wenxiu to go to class, the group of idle men finally became excited——
"What a royal concubine!"
"This Concubine Dao is not good-looking either. No wonder the emperor wants to divorce her."
"It wasn't Xiu, it was Concubine Dao who took the initiative to divorce the emperor."
"If you don't abide by the ways of a woman, you don't abide by the ways of a woman."
"Yes, how can a woman get married in the future if she is in public all day long?"
"..."
Wenxiu stood on the podium, listening to the buzzing sounds outside the classroom. She was already fed up. Being watched like a monkey every day would be uncomfortable for anyone.
Suddenly, a large group of people showed up at the school, all here to cause trouble.
These old people and young people probably knew the class schedule, but they came here at the right time, stood outside the classroom and started shouting insults. The content was dirty and hard to listen to.
An old man in a silk shirt shouted: "The royal concubine is deviant and treacherous. This is the shame of China!"
"Thief woman, you betrayed the emperor and you deserve to go to the eighteenth level of hell!" Another guy with pigtails yelled.
"Looking at her triangular eyes and thin lips, you can tell that she is a vicious and bitter person. She has spent her whole life as a prostitute and has the nerve to be a teacher. She is simply misleading her children." The man scolded her even more harshly.
After hearing a few words, Zhou Hexuan said in a cold tone: "Arrest him!"
More than a dozen police officers swarmed out. They all received benefits from Zhou Hexuan, so they were naturally motivated to do things. Each of them carried a baton and beat anyone they caught, including those who were watching the fun.
"The police are killing people!"
"Why did you arrest me? I didn't break the law!"
"You are the one to be arrested. Disturbing teaching is a serious crime. You can be shot."
"Shot? I'm just watching the excitement."
"I'll take them all away. If you don't want to go to jail, you'll have to pay a fine of 20 oceans!"
"Help!"
"If you want to run, we'll shoot you! Everyone, squat down!"
What does it mean to fight evil with evil?
This is.
It's impossible to reason with those guys clearly, and you won't be able to remember them well if you don't give them a beating.
Feng Yong laughed happily when he saw the embarrassed look of those people.
Zhou Hexuan said: "Let's go, don't delay the students' class."
Perhaps it was because Zhou Hexuan was having a bad year and Wenxiu's matter had just been successfully resolved, but something happened again at Hope Primary School in the north of the city.
The school in the north of the city was renovated from an abandoned elementary school. The principal was Wang Ziqi, a failed scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. He complained to Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou, the students are almost gone. If this continues, I, the principal, will become a polished commander."
Already."
"Tell me, what's going on?" Zhou Hexuan said speechlessly, why are there so many bad things?
Wang Ziqi recounted: "I have a student there named Zhou Hang. His father is a murderer who was shot, and his mother became the lowest prostitute, barely supporting the family with flesh money. She was originally a good person, but the other parents didn't know where they got the news. Collectively,
He went to school to protest and demanded that Zhou Hang be expelled."
"It's none of their business!" Zhou Hexuan said in a foul language.
"They said they were afraid that their children would be misled if they were classmates with the son of a murderer," Wang Ziqi lamented. "That Zhou Hang was very smart and had a photographic memory. He was considered a child prodigy in ancient times. He might still be able to
I won the top prize in the exam. I cherished my talent and refused to expel him. As a result, many students dropped out of school. It was all because of the parents."
Zhou Hexuan said: "This kind of matter should be handled by the Academic Affairs Office under the Foundation Secretariat. Why did you come to me?"
"There is a lot of controversy in the Academic Affairs Office. Some think that students should be expelled, while others insist that they cannot be expelled," Wang Ziqi complained bitterly, "I went to President Feng, and he asked me to come to you."
"This Feng Laowu is really good at shirking responsibility," Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and said, "I will handle this matter, you can go back first."
How to solve Zhou Hexuan?
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The next day, the special news on the second page of "Ta Kung Pao" was called - Do the sons of murderers and prostitutes have the right to receive education?
