Valley Emperor

It is really not easy to find a minister on duty in the imperial study who can handle education and other affairs.

What angered Li Xuan the most was the document handed over by the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, saying that there are still great shortcomings in educational affairs today. Basic education has gradually developed, but higher education is still at the level of ten years ago. .

In the excerpt, he focused on the development of higher education, especially four-year universities, to establish at least 20 large-scale comprehensive four-year universities within five years, and to expand the enrollment of more than ten existing four-year universities.

Proposed to more than ten times the number of students enrolled in four-year college students.

Seeing this, Li Xuan gave him a big fork!

Suddenly cultivating so many elite college students, what position do you want the Datang Empire to take to arrange them?

Don't you know that every turnip is a pit in the upper class, there are only so many new officials recruited every year, and there are so many high-end positions in first-class companies. After graduation, the current four-year elite students are a bit reluctant to arrange. Want to expand tenfold.

What if these students who have expanded their enrollment cannot become officials or corporate executives after graduation, and then go to rebellion?

Universities need to expand enrollment, and more and more high-end talents are needed, but we have to take it step by step. With the gradual development of the imperial economy, the demand for high-end talents is huge, and there are enough social resources to support more high-end talents. , that time is the time to train more high-end talents.

But when your society can't accept many new middle and upper classes, these extra elite students will become unstable members of society.

You really think that these people who have been educated by high-end elites are honest people. When they can't be officials, corporate executives, or enter the middle and upper classes of society, they will obediently enter factories as workers and go home to farm. ?

When the demands of these people cannot be satisfied, it is easy to blame the society for it!

Li Xuan has always firmly implemented the higher elite education system to prevent this from happening. Although the number of graduates from three-year and four-year universities is increasing every year, they are all within a controllable range. It gradually increased with the social and economic development of the people's livelihood in the empire.

Therefore, after these students graduate, the existing social resources are sufficient to accept and support them to become a new upper middle and upper social class.

However, this kind of policy can only be done silently and is not suitable for public promotion. At least Li Xuan or Ma Wei never said anything about restricting higher education. They are restricting in other directions.

For example, if the social status and salary of teachers are improved, then tuition fees will naturally increase!

After the tuition increase, teachers at the primary education stage are all ordinary teachers. Although the salary is good, it is not as high as the teachers in the university. In addition, there are subsidies from the central and local governments. Therefore, in the Datang Empire, the basic education at the primary level is It did not become scarce due to the increase in teachers' salary, but because of the continuous promotion of the empire for more than ten years, the primary education stage has become more popular.

In the early years of the Datang Empire, the goal was to establish at least one primary school in every county, and then this goal was raised to the point that every town must have one primary school.

In addition to a large number of government-run primary schools, there are actually many private primary schools in the Tang Empire. Most of these primary schools are various private schools in the old era. Teaching, the official recognition of students' school status and academic qualifications in these reviewed and approved private primary schools.

And the number of such private primary schools is still very large, and the total number is more than that of government-run primary schools.

Therefore, even though the cost of education is generally high, the impact on the primary school stage is not large.

The real influence is above the middle school level, and the more you go on, the bigger it is!

High tuition fees and few schools are all important factors.

However, although the tuition fee is high and the number of schools is small, in terms of middle and higher education, Datang pursues to concentrate its efforts on major tasks, so it will provide each middle and high school with the most optimized educational resources, so that students can receive the best education.

To put it simply, primary school is universal education, while middle school and above is more expensive.

But now, this person is proposing to increase the number of four-year college students by more than ten times at once, which makes Li Xuan curse directly in his heart, this big idiot!

This person, don't expect to be the minister on duty in the imperial study in this life, and don't even expect to be promoted to be a minister in the future. After a few years, go home!

As a high-ranking official of the empire, he has no political consciousness at all, which is simply intolerable!

However, although most people make Li Xuan unsatisfied, there are still a few people who make Li Xuan feel okay, but among these people, Li Xuan is most satisfied with a person with a very special identity.

This made Li Xuan difficult to choose for a while!

There are two people who make Li Xuan more satisfied. One of them is Dai Yugang, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The education policy proposed by this person seems to be bland, not even a bright spot. The whole article is about how good the current education policy is, and the future education affairs. What he has to do is to continue the current education policy. Of course, if it is only like this, he will not be able to impress Li Xuan.

Because many people have said the same, saying that the current education policy is already very perfect under the instructions of the Son of Heaven, and there is no need to change anything, in short, it is a change of flowers to flatter Li Xuan.

This Dai Yugang made Li Xuan more satisfied because he put forward new insights on another major piece of educational affairs, that is, the imperial examinations.

Dai Yugang wrote more than 10,000 words on the excerpts, and the content of the imperial examinations occupies more than 8,000 words, which is basically the opposite of others.

In the imperial examinations, he believes that the current system of the township examination and the meeting examination, although it has reached the best system for more than a thousand years, is already unable to meet the modern education development of the Tang Dynasty.

Because of the current imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty, if you want to be an official, you must take the imperial examination and pass the general examination, regardless of whether it is the provincial or Chengtian general examination, you must pass the examination before you can become an official.

To participate in the traditional imperial examination students, they must have merit and fame, but in Datang, in addition to merit and fame, they can also directly participate in the imperial examination with a university degree (both four-year and three-year systems).

In recent years, almost all of the students who can pass the test are college students. In the traditional sense, the students who take the test in the township examination and then participate in the general examination and the mid-term examination are very few. The township examination in many provinces, Basically it's still superficial.

In addition, the whole process of the local county examination, college examination, and township examination is also contrary to the current school system, because if students want to study, they have to be admitted all the way from primary school to middle school, then to the preparatory course, and then to the entrance examination. University or college.

This was originally going to take the exam all the way, and the process of doing another set of local imperial examinations almost overlapped. In fact, the various local examinations today are basically superficial.

Many scholars take the exam if they want to. Some aspiring scholars are lazy and waste their time to take the township exam. Instead, they study hard and then apply for university.

To this end, Dai Yugang proposed that, in order to conform to the development of education in the new era, the local imperial examinations (county examinations, prefectural examinations, hospital examinations, and provincial examinations) should be abolished, and only the general examinations should be retained.

At the same time, the titles of students, juren, and jinshi overlap and even conflict with existing academic qualifications. It is recommended to unify, abolish the old titles such as scholars, and use academic titles instead, such as primary school students, middle school students, preparatory students, college students, college students, etc. .

And the honors such as Jinshi and Ph.D. are also abolished!

I have to say that Dai Yugang's idea is so bold that Li Xuan is a little surprised!

Although the changes he proposed will not fundamentally change the existing education and imperial examination system in Datang, because Dai Yugang himself said that the local imperial examinations are superficial and useless at all. .

This change is more of a change in name, or a change in concept.

And this matter, even Li Xuan in the past 20 years, has actually not moved.

Although he engaged in the modern education system, and conducted the provincial examinations and the Jinling examinations, the core is basically very similar to the education system and civil service examinations of later generations.

But Li Xuan is still too lazy to engage in traditional titles and some concepts.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if you don't change it, it's better to do more than one less thing.

This Dai Yugang, however, intends to challenge people's traditional ideas, to completely abolish a series of titles such as Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi, and directly abolish the local imperial examinations.

I have to say that this courage is still relatively big~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and more importantly, this person Dai Yugang is not a person who grew up under the new education and the imperial examination system, but he is a serious traditional scholar. He was born in the former Ming Dynasty, and after the Tang Wangshi entered the south of the Yangtze River, he was like many former Ming officials who voted for thieves.

Then, step by step, he slowly climbed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs.

After all, he should also be the best among the former Ming's demotions.

And such a traditional scholar, a serious scholar of the former Ming Dynasty, is actually holding high the banner of reform and intends to completely send the traditional imperial examination to the garbage heap. I have to say that this idea is very bold.

In addition to Dai Yugang, there was another person who caught Li Xuan's attention, but this person was not a central minister in the traditional sense, but a local official!

This person is the current governor of Guangdong, Zhou Yiran. This person is also a relatively well-known vassal official in the Tang Empire. Not to mention his early resumes, he served four terms as governor alone, successively in northern Anhui, Henan, Hubei and Guangdong served as Taoist priests and governors for thirteen years!

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