Chapter 32 Students: Can't touch in school

During the Revolution of 1911, Chinese schools played a very special role.Since the school is a new type of education, what is taught is new things, the teaching materials have to be imported, and the teachers have to use foreign students, so this gave the revolutionaries an opportunity to take advantage of.Not only sound, light, electricity, and electricity require foreign knowledge, but also gymnastics can only be taught by foreign students.A large number of people who mixed up in Japan's fast-track schools were not necessarily all revolutionary parties, but there were quite a few people with "heretical" ideas.These people don't necessarily understand Western learning, but since they have mixed in Japan, one or two sets of new gymnastics or military exercises can still be dealt with.In addition, physical education is a new thing, no matter how people in China look at it, it is new. Therefore, many physical education teachers in schools are foreign students, and a considerable proportion of them are suspected of being revolutionaries.In addition, there are some new characters who directly gain the trust of local bureaucrats or squires and are appointed as the supervisor (principal) of the school.As a result, schools in many places have become places where revolutionaries gather. By chance, they may even become the activity base of revolutionaries.

In any era, schools are places where ideas are more active and heresies are prone to occur.Before the Revolution of 1911, although the history of China's new schools was not long, and it was only a few years before the real large-scale schools were established, the schools were still full of restless blood, which was the best place for revolutions to breed.Moreover, the school has a natural convenience for the activities of the revolutionaries, that is, it is quite safe to operate here.Traditionally, the school is a place of innocence, related to saints, and soldiers from the government generally dare not come in easily.

In a previous article, I told a story that happened in Zijin County, Guangdong Province before the Xinhai Revolution.A student from Guangzhou, who came to Zijin alone, was hunted down by the patrol camp because he didn't have braids.He fled to the local school, and was protected by the gentry in charge of the school without any grounds, just because this person was a student.As a result, not only the soldiers of the patrol battalion could not enter the school to search and arrest, but they were also falsely accused by the gentry of entering the school to rob, and they made a list of lost items and demanded compensation.In the end, it was the magistrate who came out to invite guests to mediate, and the matter was considered over.

At that time, in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, it was a rich place because of its salt production, and the provincial government exclusively assigned Hedong Road to station here.In all wealthy places, the New Deal has been done well, so there is actually a girls' school in Yuncheng.This women's school was presided over by the wife of the old revolutionary Jing Meijiu in the year of 1911, so it also became a stronghold of the local revolutionaries. The revolutionaries always held meetings in it, and the school even hid guns.There were a lot of idlers coming in and out, and most of the revolutionaries didn't know how to restrain their activities. After a long time, it was inevitable that news would not come out. Finally, the local Daotai master heard some news and sent troops to search.The soldiers came to the door and did not force their way in. They knocked on the door and asked the principal to come out, saying that they heard that there was a revolutionary party inside and were ordered to come and search.It so happened that at this time, there were really many revolutionary parties in the school, and the door was blocked, and some people were ready to copy guys and fight.At a critical juncture, Madam Jing came out without changing her face, yelling at the soldiers who came, categorically denying the accusation, bluffing and intimidating, repeatedly scolding the soldiers for being barbaric and destroying education, saying that this would lead to the subjugation of the country.He also kept saying that the arrival of the soldiers had ruined the reputation of the school.The soldiers looked at each other with scolding, and finally said, forget it, we will report back to the adults, saying that they will not allow the search.If you don't allow the search, you won't search.

Not only that, during the Revolution of 1911, something like this happened. The patrol battalion in Yangjiang County, Guangdong refused to give in, and fought with the uprising revolutionaries, and finally blocked the revolutionaries in the local school.At the moment of the battle, since it was discovered that there were still teachers and students in the school, the two sides actually ceased fighting automatically, released the students and teachers in the school, retreated to a safe area, and then fought again. China's new-style schools did not only exist during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty.Not long after the Opium War, the ban on Christianity was lifted, and Christian missionaries, especially Protestant missionaries, started running schools as soon as they gained a foothold.After the new policy abolished the imperial examination, the new school has become a substitute for the imperial examination, and it has sprung up everywhere like mushrooms after rain.In people's eyes, there has been a serious confusion with the original official school.For a while, it seemed that elementary school students were scholars, middle school students were Juren, and college students were Jinshi.However, in reality, the new education is not the same as the old imperial examinations.The books of sages and sages account for only a small part of what is learned in the school, and the rest is all Western knowledge.Therefore, unorthodox thoughts will inevitably seep in.More importantly, the exit of the new-style school is not like the official school in the imperial examination era. It is the imperial examination. The purpose of the students is to enter the official career. Even if they cannot enter, they can still be attached to the official system to earn a living.The school has a large number of students, and the outlet is the society, but the society at that time was unable to accommodate it.Students' attachment to the official system has been largely disintegrated in the new education system, and it is easy to deviate from it.However, due to the short-term transformation, the society still has the old official school's understanding of the school.I think it is an important place, where scholars are.Not to mention soldiers with low status in society, even officials have to lower their figures when they go to school.The old government schools, just like Confucian temples, have archways and dismounting stones, on which it is written: Civil and military officials come here to get off their horses and sedan chairs.Although there is no such dismounting stone at the entrance of the new school, people do have it in their hearts.Therefore, if the soldiers are asked to enter the school to search, they themselves have psychological obstacles.

Society's respect for schools is of course a good thing for a country that starts modernization by establishing schools.In today's words, only by respecting knowledge and education can a country prosper.However, the new education in the transition period, like other new reforms, has two sides and is a double-edged sword.Because all new things contain unstable factors.If there is a big mess in the national policy, and there is no error correction mechanism, then the unstable factors contained in the new things will emerge and become the bomb that destroys the system.