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Chapter 97 Cat Town (18)

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Here's what Scorpion said: When the countries on Mars were still barbarians, we already had an education system, and the cat country was an ancient country.However, our current education system is copied from foreign countries.This is not to say that we should not imitate others, but that imitating others is not an easy task.Mutual imitation is deserved and an important driving force for the improvement of human civilization.No one has adopted my old system, but we have to learn from other people's new system, which has already seen who is superior and who is inferior.However, if we can imitate well and make our education keep pace with other countries', we will naturally not be considered very incompetent.We have implemented new education systems and methods for more than two hundred years, but we are still in a mess. This proves that we can’t even imitate; The imbecility of the nation.

The innovation of low-energy people is a joke, and our new education, therefore, is also a joke. You ask why a young child graduates from college?You're too honest, or rather stupid, don't you know it's a joke?graduate?Those kids are all on their first day of school!If you want to make a joke, you can do it right away. We have nothing else to be proud of, except that we can make a joke out of it.The history of education in the past two hundred years is the history of jokes, and now the history of jokes has reached its last page. No matter how smart anyone is, he will not make this big joke any more ridiculous.When the new education was first implemented, our schools were divided into grades, and students had to pass the tests step by step before they could graduate.After 200 years of improvement and progress, examinations have been gradually abolished, and any student, regardless of whether he attends classes or not, will be counted as a graduate at that time.However, there is naturally a difference in status between a primary school graduate and a university graduate. Who would be willing to be qualified for a primary school graduate?So we have completely reformed. Anyone who enters the school on the first day will be counted as graduating from college first. Graduation first, and then—oh, no later, already graduated, what else?

This method is the best - in the country of cats.Statistically, the number of our college graduates ranks first among countries on Mars, and the number one is enough to comfort ourselves, no, to be proud; we cat people are the most practical.You see, if you do the math, the number of university graduates in any country can't keep up with ours. In fact, everyone smiled with satisfaction.The emperor likes this method. If he were not enthusiastic about education, how could there be so many college graduates?He is worthy of the people.Faculty like this method, everyone is a university teacher, every school is the highest institution, every student is the first, what an honor!Parents like this method. The seven-year-old little mud ghost has graduated from college; it is the glory of the parents that the children are smart.Not to mention students, as long as he is lucky enough to be born in the cat country, as long as he doesn't die when he is six or seven years old, he can always get a university graduation qualification.From an economic point of view, this method is surprisingly better: when the school was first established, the emperor had to spend a sum of education expenses every year, and the students who were educated were often in trouble with the emperor. ?Now, the emperor should not take out any money, and there are many college graduates every year, and such graduates will not make things difficult for the emperor.Naturally, many teachers died of starvation, and the number of university graduates has increased.In the past, the principal and the teachers pushed each other away all day long because they were earning money, and some of them had to be killed every day, and sometimes they incited the students to make troubles, making everyone uneasy; now that the emperor doesn't give them money, what are they fighting for?They want to ask for salary, but the emperor ignores them, and if the emperor is in a hurry, the emperor sends troops to beat them on the head.Their backing is the students, but now the students graduate as soon as they enroll, who will help them.No one helped them to make trouble, so they had to wait to die of starvation. Starving to death is an honest thing, the emperor is satisfied with the teachers starving to death.

The parents' problem of children's education expenses is solved, they just need to send a little mud ghost to the school, and it's nothing to do with them.When children are at home, they have to eat; when children are at school, they also have to eat; if there is food, who wants to starve the children; How about a college degree qualification?Anyway, there are no pens and other fees, because admission is not for studying, so I don’t study, because I have qualifications, and I must get qualifications.Do you think this method is good? Why are there still people who are principals and teachers, you ask?

This is the evolution of history over the past two hundred years.You see, in the past, schools set up different courses and produced different talents. Some studied engineering, some studied business, and some studied agriculture... But what do these people do after graduation?Those who study engineering are to learn some foreign skills, and we have not prepared them for foreign industries; those who study business are to learn some foreign methods, and we only have a few peddlers, and large-scale businesses are confiscated by the soldiers as soon as they are opened; Those who study agriculture are learning foreign farming methods. We only plant lost leaves and nothing else. This kind of education has nothing to do with school and society. What can students do after graduation?There are only two ways out: being an official and being a teacher.If you want to be an official, you must have some human influence. No matter what you study, as long as there are people in the court, you can reach the sky in one step.Who can have money and power?Teaching is the second-best career for those who can’t be an official. Anyway, those who have received a new education are not willing to be petty workers and peddlers. Gradually, society is divided into two types of people: those who have graduated from school and those who have not graduated from school.The former is determined to be an official or a teacher as a career, while the latter is a petty worker and peddler.I will not talk about the impact of this phenomenon on politics today; as for education, our education has become a ring education.I have studied, and after I graduated, I went to teach your children. After your children graduated, they taught my children.In terms of knowledge, there is always the same set of things, and in personality, there is a little decline every day. How can this be said?There are more and more graduates. Except for a few who can be officials, the rest have to teach. How can there be so many schools?I had to make a joke.The ring ring education was originally just to teach the textbooks of those immortal works, and it didn't talk about benevolence, justice and morality. Therefore, fighting for a teaching seat sometimes caused civil wars for a year or two, killing people and shedding blood. It seems that everyone is really for the cause of education. Desperately, in fact, only for that little salary.

Slowly, the emperor, politicians, and soldiers all took away the education funds, and everyone began to focus on the movement of asking for salary instead of teaching.As for the students, they have seen through what gentlemen are, and have also developed the habit of not attending classes, so they started the movement of graduating without studying that I just mentioned.This movement killed the education funding.The emperor, politicians, soldiers, and parents all sponsored this movement; anyway, education is a useless thing, and teachers are awesome things, so everyone is happy to save some money.However, the school cannot be closed; I am afraid that foreigners will laugh at it; so the movement of enrolling in a university is considered to be a university graduation is mature.The schools are still open, and the number of college graduates is increasing day by day, but don't spend a penny.This is changing from ring-ring education to universal education, which means no education, but the schools are still open.Big joke.

When this movement matured, principals and teachers did not lose their enthusiasm for education because of this, and everyone still fought hard all day long.Why?The original school really looked like a school, with tables and chairs, property, and all the equipment. When there were funds, everyone tried to make money, so the principal and teachers had to start selling public property privately.Fighting for the headmaster: those with less property competed for those with more property, and those without school property fought for those with school property, and blood spattered again.The emperor always has people's hearts. Since the education funding has been stopped, how dare he prohibit the theft and sale of school property, so the schools have become auction houses one by one, and now they have all become an open space surrounded by four walls.So, why are some people still willing to be principal teachers?If you don't do it, you are idle, and if you do it, you are idle, so why not?Besides, the title of principal and teacher is useful after all. It was originally the only way to follow the ring ring education to be promoted from student to teacher and from teacher to principal; now, the principal and teacher have no money to take, so they have to borrow Use this title as a ladder for promotion.In this way, there is no education in our schools, but there are students, teachers and principals, and any school is the highest institution of learning.When students hear that their school is the highest institution of learning, they feel numb for a moment, and the world is peaceful.

Since there is no education in schools, what about those who really want to study?Restoration of the old system - hiring tutors to teach children to study at home.Naturally, this can only be done by wealthy families, and most children still have to go to school.This failure of education wiped out even a shadow of the last hope of Cat Country.The first trial of new education is a period of slandering new knowledge.The new system must be imported from abroad together with the new knowledge, and the knowledge is called new, obviously because the knowledge is always advancing and searching for truth with each passing day.But when the new system and new knowledge came to us, white hairs immediately grew here, like something moldy on a rainy day.Originally, adopting other people's institutional knowledge is the easiest way to cut a piece of meat from someone else's body and patch it on yourself. I feel that I only need to cut a piece of meat from another person. All the nutrients you need.If you acquire a lot of new knowledge without knowing the spirit of research, you will inevitably go to the ring education.This is an insult to new knowledge, but in this period, people do have a kind of hope, although they think it is wrong to cut a new piece of flesh from others to make themselves immortal, but after all they have such a little superstition, They always think that as soon as new knowledge arrives - no matter how small - they will immediately prosper as foreign countries.This dream and pride is forgivable, and somewhat hopeful.Up to now, people only know that the school is a place to fight for the principal, beat the teachers, and cause disturbances, so they boil this phenomenon and new knowledge in a pot and curse: new knowledge is not only not enough to strengthen the country, but also destroys people. .In this way, from slandering the new knowledge period to cursing the new knowledge period.Now families hire teachers to teach their children to read, except for new knowledge. The price of our original old stone books has increased tenfold.My grandfather was very proud, thinking that it was the quintessence of the Chinese nation that defeated foreign knowledge.My father was happy. He sent his son to study abroad, thinking that by doing so, only his son could understand everything and help him use new knowledge to deceive those who held books in stone.My father is shrewd and capable. He always thinks that new foreign knowledge is useful, but as long as a few people learn it, it is enough. If a few people learn foreign tricks, we will be strong.But the people in the first class still sympathized with grandfather: new knowledge is a kind of magic and evil method, which will only make people dizzy and dizzy. It will only make sons beat their fathers, daughters scold their mothers, and students kill teachers.This period of cursing new knowledge is very close to the period of subjugation.

You ask, what is the reason for the collapse of this new education?I can't answer.I just think it's because there's no personality.You see, when the new education comes, why do people want it?It's because everyone wants to make more money, not to make their children understand more things, but to create more new and useful things, not to let people know more about the truth.This attitude has made education lose part of its main purpose of developing good character and stimulating the spirit of research.When a new school is established, there are people in the school but no personality. The teachers make money, the principal makes money, and the students make money for preparation. Everyone sees the school as a new type of restaurant; no one cares about what education is.When the country is weak, the society is dark, the emperor has no personality, the politicians have no personality, and the people have no personality, so the impersonality outside the school has further polluted the impersonality in the school.Naturally, in this poor and weak country, many people cannot even eat enough to eat, so it is difficult to talk about personality, which is mostly degraded by economic oppression.good.However, this is not enough to defend those who run education.Why education?Save the country.How to save the country?knowledge and personality.This should be decided when one starts education, and one should sacrifice one's own small interests when one wishes to be a principal and teacher.Maybe I expect too much from those who run education.People are people, and a schoolteacher is as afraid of starvation as a prostitute.It seems that I should not blame the teachers only, and I certainly do not want to blame them.However, some women refuse to be prostitutes even if they are hungry. So, can’t the educators grit their teeth and be a person with personality?Naturally, the government is the one that bullies honest people the most, and the more honest people who run education are, the more they are bullied; however, no matter how bad the government is, it must take public opinion into consideration.If we run education with real personalities, and the students we produce also have personalities, will the society be forever blind to see the good and the bad?If the society regards those who run education as loving fathers, and the students they produce can achieve some achievements in society, how dare the government despise education?Dare not to send funds?I believe that with ten years of character education, Cat Country will change.However, the new education has been in operation for two hundred years, the result?If under the old system, people who are honest, loving their parents, and obeying the rules can be cultivated, how can the new education not achieve quite good results?Everyone says—especially those who run education—that the society is dark, and who is responsible for turning society white?People who run education only complain about the darkness of society, but don’t remember that their responsibility is to make society white, and they don’t remember that their personality is the starlight in the dark night. What hope is there? !I know I am too biased, too ideal.But should all those who run education be somewhat idealistic?I know that government society is so unhelpful to them, but who wants to help people who are as bad as government society?

Did you see the one who killed the teacher?Don't be surprised.That is the natural result of an education without personality.Teachers have no personality, and students naturally have no personality.Not only is there no personality, but it also makes people go back tens of thousands of years, returning to the ancient situation of cannibalism.The progress of human beings is extremely slow, but the regression is extremely fast. When people lose their personality for a while, they immediately return to barbarism. Besides, we have run schools for two hundred years?During these two hundred years, the principal fought with the principal or the teachers every day, or the teacher fought with the teacher or the principal, or the students fought with the students, or the students fought with the principal and teachers; It adds a little bit of wildness at a time, so now, it is common for students to kill several principals or teachers.You don't need to complain about the principals and teachers. Our education is a ring ring. Students will become principals or teachers one day, and someone will kill them.Fortunately, there are a few more such principals and teachers who have nothing to do with the society at all, and no one cares about who kills anyone in the school.In this kind of dark society, people seem to be born like little wild animals, sniffing and scratching here and there, hoping to find something to eat, and even a grain of sand that is as cheap as a grain of sand is enough for them to catch it with all their strength.Such a group of little people happened to meet such a group of teachers in school, just like a group of young hungry beasts meeting a group of old hungry beasts, they must compete with their minions, and the desire for petty gain ignited the wildness left by the original people, So for a book or a lost leaf, you can beat dead bodies all over the ground.Agitation is the bloody agitation of young people, and it is forgivable; however, the agitation here has a different flavor, using the topic to make a fuss, demolishing houses and destroying things, and then everyone moves bricks to their homes to pick up the rags, the students are satisfied, and the parents Everyone is happy.Because of the disturbance, the family got a few bricks and a wooden stick for nothing, and the disturbance was finally not in vain.Principals and teachers steal things when they get the chance, and students take the opportunity to tear them down, and take them home when they're done.Principal teachers be damned.Students be damned.It is natural for students to beat principals and teachers to death, and it is only natural for students to be beaten to death when they become principals and teachers. This is our education.Education can turn a person into a beast, and it cannot be regarded as lack of achievement, haha!

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