African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 109 Christmas

After visiting the teaching of the East African school in the first town, Maximilian I and the two were still very touched.

Top aristocrats like the two have received royal court education since childhood, and it is difficult to sink into such a grassroots education model in East Africa.

Moreover, as a colony in East Africa, there is no need to cover up the two. What the two see is the most authentic daily life of East African schools.

There are few courses in East African schools, only German and mathematics are the two main courses, followed by history and physical education.

The content is also extremely simple, and even each grade has a lot of repetitive content. After finishing school in East African schools, at most, they can master German reading and writing and simple mathematical operations.

The knowledge content of the entire set of East African education is even less than one-third of that of Ernst Primary School in the previous life (third grade level).

This was decided to adapt to the weakness of teachers in the East African colonies, which are currently only capable of such poor education.

Of course, the end point of this kind of education in East Africa also has a rising channel. After passing the final exam, the group with the best grades can get the opportunity to study in Germany.

In terms of difficulty, it is very simple to pass the exam and get a place to study abroad with the average level of elementary school graduates in the previous life, but immigrants from East Africa may not realize the importance of education.

This has led to the fact that only families that value education have a better chance of their children studying in Germany, while families that do not value education, even if their children graduate with good grades, may just stay in East Africa to work in agriculture. After all, going to Germany requires the consent of their parents.

Ernst didn't bother to correct this situation. Anyway, he only needed to cultivate a sufficient number of talents. If there was a surplus of talents, sometimes it would be a disaster.

After all, compared with those positions that require high education, the most in-demand occupation in East Africa is farmers, who develop the land.In the industrial countries of Europe, workers are most needed.

With the level of industrialization in the current era, only the UK has completely completed industrialization (the urbanization level has reached more than 50.00%), while other countries are even lower, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Workers in these industrial countries do not require a high level of education, not to mention the East African colonies that are still centered on the development of agriculture.

The reason why compulsory education is opened in East Africa is to assimilate and cultivate the talents needed in the future, which is the need for a stable rule. In fact, it is not to really change the fate of these people (although it has changed objectively).

Just like Prussia launched compulsory education in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, the motivation of compulsory education in East Africa is not pure.

You have to ask how much Ernst attaches importance to education, in fact, that is the case, although Ernst received a complete nine-year compulsory education and higher education in his previous life.

However, Ernst's identity in this life is a nobleman, and what he is doing now seems very grand (enclosing land and establishing a country), but the premise is to maintain the interests of the Hexingen royal family and continue to prosper in the future.

The experience of India and other countries in his previous life told Ernst that as long as the body is large and the population is large, even a country with a low-quality population can accumulate a large amount of wealth at the top.

Therefore, the nobles represented by Ernst do not need many highly educated people in essence, but need obedient people who can create wealth.

This is essentially the same routine as why the ancient rulers liked to fool the people and why the West was anti-intellectual.

The education in East Africa is somewhere between the two, with a lukewarm attitude towards education, neither teaching much nor teaching too little, actively lowering the standard.

In addition to paying more attention to ethnic issues and cultural identity (Germanization), they are not keen on changing other qualities and concepts of ordinary people.

As long as you are an honest German, nothing else matters, who cares whether your morals are noble or not!Is it kind! ... This part of the education is still left to the family to complete.

So the East African education system, which looks frugal and full of loopholes, is actually political wisdom behind it.

Of course, Maximilian I couldn't see it. After visiting the education in East Africa, he couldn't help making suggestions with the East African government personnel around him. This kind of simple and rude education seemed to Maximilian I There is huge room for improvement.

As for the staff, the left ear goes in and the right ear goes out, and they promise with all their mouths, but in fact they promise nothing.

Except for the employees of the Hexingen Consortium (basically all above middle school education), the management personnel of the entire East African government and army, including the students of the Hexingen Military Academy whose name sounds bluffing, are actually at the elementary school level.

From the eyes of employees and mercenaries, this is a job, and from the eyes of the students of the Military Academy in Hechingen, it is a kindness of repaying the headmaster.

They will only follow the route planned by Ernst and complete the task meticulously, and they don't care about the development of East Africa.

That is out of respect for the identity of Maximilian I, so I dealt with it, and Maximilian I was still chattering non-stop.

A living European intellectual commented on the East African policy, which really confirmed the saying that no official is light.

If he had been as energetic as he is today when he was the emperor of Mexico, Ernst would have really admired Maximilian I.

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1867 12 Month 25 Day.

Another year of Christmas.

Ernst and Prince Constantine, who were traveling around this year, returned to Hechingen ahead of schedule to spend the festival.

Ernst wandering around the castle with a small rottweiler bought from a farm in Berlin in the village of Ernst and named "Navi" with no practical meaning , just to commemorate a pastoral dog I raised in my previous life. That dog was raised by Ernst when he was a child in his previous life. The dog was named Neville, and then died of old age. Ernst was still sad for a long time.

In the castle, decorations needed for the festival were arranged, and fir trees transplanted from the forests of southern Germany were placed in the hall as Christmas trees.

Different from previous years, electric lights were used in the hall this year, and lighting tools such as candles were replaced. The entire castle and even the roads outside the castle were illuminated by the lighting system of the Hexingen Consortium.

Other royal families and big cities in Europe have also enjoyed the convenience of electric lights. Of course, some more traditional people are still using candles to enhance the atmosphere of Christmas, a religious festival.

In the huge castle, it seemed a little deserted. Because of Christmas, many servants were sent home by Prince Constantine to accompany their relatives, so there were not many people in the castle.

This year, the climate is slightly colder, and there is heavy snow in Hechingen and the whole of Germany. Through the window, you can see the snow covered the ground, the forest around the castle, and the dark green branches and leaves under the snow on the tops of pine and cypress trees.

In the cold winter season when Germany is still covered with snow, in the far south, the land of East Africa is still like spring, and the East African government also organizes its residents to start Christmas celebrations.

And 1867 will be passed in a few days. 1867 is an unforgettable year. In this year, the East African colonies completely controlled the entire territory of Tanzania and Kenya, and the number of immigrants reached 50. It initially had the scale of a country. It can already be seen as a political entity participating in international affairs.

(End of this chapter)