Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 76
Speaking of the China Vocational Education Association, it was actually not what Cheng Nuo thought at the beginning, it was only established to train industrial workers and start industries.

There are few educated people, and they are very precious, but there are not many employment opportunities, and it is difficult to eat public meals, and they have to delay their wages for more than half a year.

Tsinghua School, which is better than the Boxer Indemnity School, the principal Zhou Jimei specially launched career speech activities in order to guide students' employment, and hired experts to give lectures on career issues in the school, such as Wang Zhengyan's "Vocational Education", Wu Chaoshu's "Law and Politics", Dong Xianguang's " "New Literature", etc., are all set up to promote the employment of students, what is missing is a "tripartite agreement".

Even in order to further guide employment, the dean of Qinghua School directly led the students to the United States to investigate and collect various career guidance materials. For this purpose, they specially solicited students' opinions and compiled them into publications. Later, they directly established an employment guidance committee to help students find jobs. .

The big brothers are living a tight life, not to mention the schools in other places, not to mention that every family has a law major. In the environment at that time, talking about the rule of law is simply a joke.

Therefore, even though Qinghua School was formerly known as the "Academic Affairs Office of Youmei", not everyone can go to the United States for further studies, and it also has the goal of cultivating "leadership talents". Zhou Jimei, the principal of the Chinese Vocational Education Society, also came to participate.

Looking at the participants, Zhou Jimei said in a calm manner: "Take our Qinghua School as an example, 80.00% of the international students sent will major in industrial technology, agronomy, mechanical engineering, mining, physics and chemistry, railway engineering, architecture, Banking, railway management and similar disciplines, and another 20.00% will specialize in law and political science."

"According to our school's internal survey, there is a serious mismatch between the professions they pursue after graduation and the majors they studied during their study abroad. Engineering and medicine are in good condition, but in agriculture and engineering, few students choose this employment."

As the person in charge, Huang Yanpei quickly took notes: "The question raised by Principal Zhou is very representative. I believe that this is also a common problem for other schools. Do you have any solutions?"

Cai Yuanpei stood up, raised his hand and said with a smile: "I think Qinghua School's 'Senior Senior Speech' is quite good. It allows students to deepen their understanding of social needs, and they don't have to follow social trends blindly to choose popular majors. This kind of systematic Counseling and helping is worth promoting."

According to the academic system of Qinghua School, it is divided into two subjects: secondary and advanced. Students study at school for eight years: four years for intermediate subjects and four years for advanced subjects.Because the employment speech is only aimed at senior students, it is nicknamed "Senior Senior Speech".

Zhou Jimei is not just talking, she has done a lot in private, helping many students choose the right major.

For example, Wu Yuseng, a master of Chinese studies, initially planned to study roads and mines and other practical studies, and later he wanted to enter Columbia University to study journalism and publishing. His stepfather believed that English was easy to find a job, and he preferred English majors. It was Zhou Jimei who knew the students well and saw his literary talent, so he recommended Harvard. The University’s Department of Comparative Literature has thus retained an important talent for the development of Chinese red studies.

In addition, Chen Heqin, known as the father of modern Chinese children's education, also changed from medicine to pedagogy under his guidance.And this is just a microcosm of many students.

Cheng Nuo has great respect for Zhou Jimei, the principal of Qinghua School. Qinghua also started to transform the "Youmei Academic Affairs Office" into a national university during his tenure, so he further extended his point of view:
"I deeply agree with the views of the two principals. According to the needs of the times, we should choose a subject and specialize in it to achieve the goal of applying what we have learned and benefiting the people. Therefore, my opinion is to suggest that we set up a career guidance department at the same time. Investigate the required occupations and school students in the local area, arrange manpower to give lectures to graduates, and help them find jobs."

"For areas outside the scope of the Shanghai stock market, we might as well set up the 'Education and Life' column in the public supplement of the "National" magazine, and publish a special issue of career guidance to help students learn about information outside the school."

This is not to say that Cheng Nuo is deliberately selfish, but that the popular supplement of "National" magazine is more suitable.Those who are more famous than him are not as academically strong as him; those who are more academically better than him are smaller than him.

If we can take advantage of the power of the China Vocational Education Association, then the magazine will soon cover more than half of the country, and the effect of science popularization will definitely be better.

The people below whispered to each other after hearing it, and the scene was a little chaotic for a while.

Originally, some people were quite opposed to it. Seeing that the person who stood up was a yellow-mouthed child, he must have no hair on his lips, and he must be talking nonsense.

But after listening to it, I felt that it made sense. After asking around, it turned out that Professor Cheng, who has been in the limelight in the academic world for the past six months, immediately changed his attitude. This is called the celebrity effect.

Zhang Jian in the audience cleared his throat and stood up to cheer: "In the eyes of ordinary people, our Vocational Education Association must hope to introduce jobs, but in fact we know that we can't do this kind of thing, and we want to fundamentally solve this problem. For the problem, only Professor Cheng’s suggestion is to set up a special employment guidance committee.”

Chen Jiageng also stood up and echoed: "If we set up a vocational school in the future, and students from other schools come to study, how can we divide them into subjects? How can we teach them to develop various qualifications in their professional world? How can we make them embark on a certain way out? Think carefully about this career guidance, it is simply a prerequisite for vocational education.”

These few people took the lead, and the people below also expressed their opinions, but there was only one general idea, that is, they agreed to organize a career guidance committee and set up a subordinate career guidance department. Journal, one step higher in status.

As a subsidiary journal of the Academy of Sciences, it also helped him improve his voice invisibly.

With such a good start, the following meeting will be much smoother, and the bosses will express their opinions.

Someone expressed the confusion in their hearts: "Vocational education is something that has not been recorded in the oriental dictionaries. Some people have doubts and prejudices about it. They think that vocational education is only for teaching people how to eat, and it is useless. ', 'slave education', 'sinful education', what do you guys think?"

Huang Yanpei looked at everyone, and said in a deep voice: "Because of this, the purpose of our China Vocational Education Association is to prepare individuals for making a living, preparing for social services, and preparing for increasing production capacity for the world and the country, so as to eliminate the common It is doubtful to only regard vocational education as a kind of life education in a narrow sense."

Zhang Yuanji of the Commercial Press agreed: "The so-called occupation is a definite mutual assistance behavior in the common life of human beings, so vocational education is nothing more than using
The method of education enables everyone to obtain the supply and pleasure of life according to his individuality, and at the same time fulfill his obligations to the group. "

Jiang Menglin concluded: "Education is a method, and occupation is a problem...Therefore, there is no other vocational education, which raises various problems in occupation and uses education as a solution.

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Everyone definitely didn't come here to spoil the scene, and they were also very optimistic about the prospects of the China Vocational Education Association, and they basically agreed with each other.

When everyone had finished speaking, Cheng Nuo stood up and poured cold water on them at the right time, pointing out the problem from the perspective of future people.

"Students' future cannot be solved solely by the education sector. What is more important is to rely on the industry to help. Specifically, in terms of courses, what subjects to set up, what courses to customize, and what textbooks to use, we must also ask the opinions of the industry. The pure training of students also depends on their needs, and the teachers also need to dig out from the industry. Develop vocational courses according to the job analysis method, based on the needs of social occupations."

"All in all, although vocational education is good, it should not be taken for granted. It is necessary to break away from the circle of traditional education and go from school to society."

As far as the Renzi Guichou academic system is concerned, it is very unsuitable for vocational education.Although education is divided into three levels: junior high school and high school, industrial education includes two levels: primary and secondary. The higher level of industrial education is classified as teacher education, and the degree of connection between them is too low.

After completing the practical education at this stage, one can graduate without the opportunity for further study, while the lower-level general education can be promoted to a higher-level industrial school, and there is no connection between industrial schools at all levels.

However, in a sense, it is also an advantage. In the period of economic underdevelopment, it is helpful to obtain technical talents in a short period of time. Strictly distinguishing the level of education is also conducive to the employment of students. Go to high school, choose to study in a teacher's college, and work after graduation.

Seeing that everyone had almost digested it, Cheng Nuo further added his point of view.

"In addition, everyone should also see that our cultural psychology of advocating further education is biased against vocational education. Influenced by traditional concepts in our country, the public's attitude towards education is still keen on the doctrine of being able to be a master, which is limited to middle-level students. Vocational education naturally cannot meet their needs."

Of course, this problem exists now, but it was more serious then.

Cai Yuanpei, as the first group of people who advocated practical education, was deeply moved: "It is false to admit that there is no learning outside of reading, and there is no industry outside of being an official. He only knows that schools are the ladder for scholars to advance, but he does not understand that education is the nourishment of life. He longs for other things. Children show their relatives and fame, honor their ancestors and become high-ranking officials and make a fortune. They are so-called modern people. They also hope that their children can be civil servants when they are educated. Labor produces work."

Hearing this, someone couldn't help lowering their heads.

Someone asked stubbornly, "According to what Professor Cheng said, the former is easy to solve, what about the latter?"

Cheng Nuo replied with a smile: "We can consider establishing a complete system for vocational education, giving diplomas after graduation, and equal social status. Therefore, the development of vocational education requires the transformation of social psychology."

"At the very least, the salaries of the students trained in our vocational education are much higher than those of local civil servants, and they are worthy of their sweat."

The legend of German blue-collar workers in later generations might as well start from the Republic of China.

(End of this chapter)