Chapter 51 Intellectual excess

Yu Ming The world is in economic panic because of overproduction.Although more than 30 million workers are starving at the same time, food surplus is still an "objective reality", otherwise the United States would not lend us wheat flour [2] on credit, and we would not have "a bumper harvest" [3]. However, there will be excess knowledge, and the panic will be even greater if there is excess knowledge.It is said that the more China's current education is promoted in the countryside, the faster the bankruptcy of the countryside will be [4].This is probably the harvest of knowledge in disaster.The United States is shoveling cotton fields because cotton is cheap.China should shovel knowledge.This is a wonderful method from the West.

Westerners are capable.Five or six years ago, Germany complained that there were too many college students, and some politicians and educators loudly advised young people not to go to college.Now Germany is not only advising, but also eradicating intellectuals: for example, setting fire to some books, asking writers to swallow their own manuscripts, and locking groups of college students in barracks to do hard labor. Unemployment problem".Isn't China also clamoring for a surplus of college students in grammar? [5]?In fact, it is more than just grammar.Even middle school students are too many.We must use the "strict" examination system [6], like an iron broom -- brush, brush, brush, and brush most of the intellectual youth back to the "folk".Why does excess knowledge lead to panic?Aren't 80 to 90 percent of people in China still illiterate?However, intellectual excess is always an "objective reality", and the resulting panic is also an "objective reality".Too much knowledge, either hard-hearted or soft-hearted.If you are passionate, you will think wildly, and if you are soft-hearted, you will not be willing to do anything wrong.As a result, either he is not calm, or he hinders the calm of others.Then came the disaster.So knowledge must be eradicated.

However, eradication alone is not enough.Practical education must be given, the first is numerology-to know your destiny with joy, although life is bitter, you should still be happy.The second is the study of physiognomy - you need to "knowledge" and know the pros and cons of modern weapons.At least, these two types of practical knowledge should be promoted as soon as possible.The method advocated is very simple: ——A philosopher in ancient times refuted idealism. He said, if you doubt whether the substance in this bowl of wheat rice exists, it is best to ask you to eat it and see if you are full.Now, for example, if we want people to understand electricity, it is best to let them get an electric shock and see if it hurts; if we want people to know the effects of airplanes, it is best to fly an airplane over their heads, drop bombs, and watch them die. Immortality... With such a practical education, there is no excess of intellect.Yamen [7]!July 12th.

[1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on July 16, 1933. [2] Loaning wheat flour on credit In May 1933, Song Ziwen, Minister of Finance of the Kuomintang government, signed a "Cotton and Wheat Loan" contract with the American Renaissance Financial Corporation in Washington, with a loan of 50 million U.S. dollars, stipulating that four-fifths of it would be used to purchase U.S. cotton , one in five buys US wheat. 〔3〕"Harvest to disaster" In 1932, the provinces in the Yangtze River Basin had a bumper harvest, but due to manipulation by the imperialists and the Kuomintang government, as well as landlords and businessmen, the price of grain plummeted, causing disasters for the farmers in the bumper harvest areas.

[4] See Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng's speech in the "Declaration" on July 11, 1933. He absurdly attributed the main reason for the rural bankruptcy at that time to "the current education system is not suitable for the needs of the rural environment." , said, "The more the current education system is promoted in the countryside, the faster the bankruptcy of the countryside will be. Therefore, in order to develop the countryside, it is necessary to provide education that is suitable for practical use." [5] There is a surplus of college students in the grammar department. In May 1933, the Kuomintang government The Ministry of Education ordered all universities to restrict the enrollment of grammar students. The order said: "Our country has accumulated a lot of literature for thousands of years, and the tradition is deep. It is the trend to seek scholars, and grammar and other subjects are relatively simple. It is easy to take refuge, which leads to emphasizing humanities and ignoring production, forming a contradiction between surplus and shortage of talents." (According to the "Report" on May 22, 1933) Beginning in the third year, it is stipulated that when the students of primary and secondary schools across the country graduate, in addition to the school graduation exam, they must also take an exam hosted by the local education administrative agency with graduates from other schools, called the Huikao, and only those who pass can graduate. [7] Amen is a transliteration of the Hebrew aLmeLn, which means "Amen".The term used by Jews and Christians at the end of prayer, expressing "sincere wish".