Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 62 Military and National Education

But just like what Cheng Nuo saw just now, Peking University's sports are a mess, and there is no way to clean it up without hard work.

"Mr. Cai, after all, you are the head of a school of Peking University. You have to give your advice no matter what. It is impossible to say that you can completely leave it to me. There are so many students here, and the cost of trial and error is too high."

"The Japanese advocate sports, which has made great progress and has affected the entire nation. Therefore, we must realize that sports is to improve the health of the body and at the same time seek the health of the nation." Cai Yuanpei walked over from the desk and handed Sit side by side with a cup of tea: "Wars are dominated by soldiers, and all soldiers can advance bravely."

Cheng Nuo didn't understand what it meant, and asked, "According to Mr. Cai, it seems that we run sports to get closer to the military and learn military skills?"

Cai Yuanpei nodded with a smile: "Half right, military and national education, muscles and bones are also used for self-defense."

"Military country. Military national education?" Cheng Nuo almost confided, dragged the **** into it, and asked, "Students are stupid, please let Mr. Cai explain."

Cai Yuanpei stood up and took a few steps forward. After thinking for a while, he turned and replied: "For example, our ancient six arts of archery and ancient Greek gymnastics are all military nationalism in my opinion. More specifically, Military gymnastics in schools is also military nationalism, and ordinary gymnastics is both aesthetic education and military nationalism.”

Good guy, the word difference means something completely different.

Different from the sports concept of later generations, what Cai Yuanpei advocated is "military and national sports", which is largely based on the international situation of our close neighbors Russia and Japan in modern times, especially the pressing international situation of Japan. "One of the five educations refers to military and national education, materialistic education, moral education, worldview education and aesthetic education.

Compared with the "moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor" of the current education, the former seems to be easier to implement. After all, the latter is a bit empty and the operability is not too high.

In 1922, they directly reorganized the sports of Peking University, saying that although the development of school sports was seen in their eyes, but the progress was slow, they were simply reorganized into two departments, the student army and the gymnastics department. One even directly invited Jiang Baili as a mentor.

Who is Jiang Baili, No.1 in the Infantry Division of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and the Japanese Emperor personally awarded him a command sword. He was a very powerful military talent. Unfortunately, he died young, but his son-in-law was even more powerful.

Seeing Cheng Nuo lost in thought, Cai Yuanpei added: "It's not just for students, it's also applicable to individuals. When I participated in the Chinese Anti-insult Association in the early years, I emphasized that everyone should learn to understand various weapons. Prepare what you are good at, develop the habit of suppressing the strong and helping the weak, and maintain the integrity that can be killed but not humiliated. When you see an enemy insulting your compatriots, attack them, and if the incident is involved, stand up and let it go."

Cheng Nuo regained his strength and said in his heart, Mr. Cai, Mr. Cai, you are really a martyr in his twilight years, and you are full of ambition. The education here has not forgotten your old profession, which is really admirable to the younger generation.

But he was not completely convinced by this sentence: "Cai Gong thinks, which sports method is more in line with what you call military and national sports?"

"Gymnastics and martial arts enable all students to have the qualities of soldiers. Soldiers are among the people. Everyone is a soldier to resist foreign aggression. Once the world is in trouble, the whole country is full of well-trained soldiers and strong generals. Don't be afraid of fighting and invincible. , why worry about the failure of the foundation of the country."

"Military nationalism is good, but it's too ideal, and it's really hard to implement in the current environment." Cheng Nuo shook his head and stated his opinion: "This requires gymnastics teachers to have certain professional knowledge and teaching ability. At the very least, you need to know some gymnastics knowledge, but teachers are scarce, let alone gymnastics teachers. Forcibly allocating them to other places will only let some ** teach for them, and the quality of teaching can be imagined."

Cai Yuanpei was silent for a moment, and retorted: "Today's students are the backbone of tomorrow's society and the pillars of the country. It is not easy to implement an education policy. Even if there are some difficulties, we should find ways to overcome them. How can we just avoid them?" It can bear the heavy responsibility of the society and the country in the future."

Cheng Nuo was not discouraged, and continued to state: "Sports is a physical exercise first, and a cultural style second. It has both social value and personal value. It cannot simply serve politics. Instrumental rational thinking is not necessary. It should be the first thing to do. There must be a mass base."

"Just like what you said before, to create a complete personality, the first thing is sports. We must see that sports can help people's personality, and then enable people to better adapt to social, political, economic and cultural development."

Cai Yuanpei was refreshed by these words, and while nodding, he also asked, "According to your suggestion, what is the first thing we should do now?"

"Hold a sports meeting, especially a competitive sports meeting." Cheng Nuo said: "Mobilize the teachers and students of the whole school to join in, let them be interested in sports activities, release their vitality, and have a high ranking honor. More motivation."

Although Peking University held the first school-wide sports meeting in 1905, ahead of its brothers and universities, it gradually stopped holding games and did not resume until 1922.

What Cheng Nuo didn't expect was that Cai Yuanpei was quite repulsed by competitive sports.

"The previous ones are easy to discuss, but this needs to be discussed further." Cai Yuanpei waved his hand, expressing his disagreement with this opinion: "Involving competitions will stimulate students' competitive spirit, leading to more aggressive behaviors and harming the body. And competition Before, everyone had hope, but after the competition, the winners tend to be arrogant and arrogant, and the losers tend to be disheartened, which harms their psychology. At the same time, some students will devote too much energy to sports and neglect their studies."

Cheng Nuo couldn't help laughing. He really didn't expect Cai Yuanpei to be so conservative in this aspect, far from being as determined to reform as other disciplines.

"Cai Gong, do you know that in the Far East Games held in Shanghai last year, athletes from my country, Japan, and the Philippines participated in the competition. Did you feel excited and proud when our football team won the championship by beating the Philippines?"

The Far East Games, formerly known as the "Far East Olympic Games", is a regional international competition initiated and participated by the Philippines, China, and Japan in the early 20th century. It is also the earliest intercontinental international competition in the world and is considered the predecessor of the Asian Games.

Cai Yuanpei was at a loss for words for a moment, but he didn't know how to reply.

Cheng Nuo stood up and said with a smile, "Mr. Cai, we can't give up eating because of choking. Only the national pride inspired by competitive sports can popularize sports faster and better. There are bound to be some high-level sports people who will win honor for us. Elite sports and mass sports do not conflict, but complement each other."

"In other words, you don't want us to take part in the North China Games and come back with the last place."

Cai Yuanpei was not angry at all, but actually laughed: "The aggressive method is not acceptable. I agree with everything else, but gymnastics still needs to be preserved."

"Of course gymnastics can be retained, but in addition to this, additional sports such as track and field, basketball, football, etc., preferably the Olympic Games or the Far East Games, we should have all of them. The equipment does not need to be the best, but we must let students Get involved."

But after finishing speaking, Cheng Nuo was a little worried again. Unlike Tsinghua University, Peking University was full of young people. There were many students here who were older than him. It was hard to tell if they were old.

Cai Yuanpei added: "Students should also be encouraged to watch. We have to learn from the West in this respect. No matter men, women, old or young, they are all excited about sports. Not only when they are exercising, but even watching other people's sports, such as football, baseball, etc. , I also find it very interesting."

Cheng Nuo suddenly thought that with so many things that he wanted to develop, there might not be many items listed alone, but they would add up to a lot, and asked, "But in this way, we will spend a lot of sports funds, worry about it?" The school can't bear it."

Cai Yuanpei laughed and said, "It turns out that you are also worried about educational expenses in Zhiyuan. A few days ago, you repeatedly emphasized that the second division of engineering and agriculture cannot be cancelled. Why don't you see that you are so worried."

Cheng Nuo had no choice but to say, "At this time and at that time, if you are not in charge, you don't know how expensive Chai Mi is. Since you have the Academy of Sciences, you need to spend money everywhere. If you don't plan carefully, you are afraid that it will fall into my hands one day."

"Very good, this is the thinking of a man of action. In this era, more people open their mouths and less people roll up their sleeves." Cai Yuanpei nodded, agreeing with this sentence: "A few days ago, the two parties used the power of the government to fight each other. , Ask for a fortune, now there is a lot left, hold a spring sports meeting, and buy a few more balls is not a problem."

Cheng Nuo felt relieved, sat back and took a sip of water: "However, this is not a long-term solution. Physical education, like other subjects, requires continuous investment. In the long run, the money is not enough. We should set up a separate program Funds serve sports and at least meet daily consumption.”

"I've heard about the chaos in the school's physical education department for a long time. It's just that I'm busy with other subject reforms and can't take care of it for a while. That's why I pulled you, a capable person, to be my right-hand man." Cai Yuanpei touched the kettle , Feeling a little cold, re-boil a pot of hot water, busy with hands not to delay talking: "Funding is also relatively easy, and an extra sports fee will be charged at the beginning of the new school year, which is exclusively for sports activities."

Cheng Nuo nodded in agreement. For the Beiyang government, the salaries of its own public officials are all owed, and it is too unrealistic to ask for a sum of money. Instead, it is better to find a way from within the school.

After the students have paid their sports fees, if they want to fool around, they have to consider the money they have paid themselves. In a sense, it might be a good thing.

On the basis of common opinions, both parties added what they think is more correct.

Ever since, Cheng Nuo started to take charge of the start of the spring sports meeting, and while Cai Yuanpei asked all the staff to participate, he was also recruiting some professional physical education teachers. Fighting instructors teach martial arts in the morning and evening.

As for the head of the sports department of Peking University in the future, Cheng Nuo was naturally called over and asked to study with him, and his screams could be heard from far away every morning.

"At my age, stretching my legs is really difficult."

"There are so many students watching, Professor Cheng, you have to set an example."

"Okay, I'll try again~ Huhu, tap lightly."

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