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Chapter 639: Output Education (First update, please subscribe)
It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people!
No matter any construction, it is inseparable from talents.

The most difficult and longest thing in the world is the cultivation of talents. Although Nanyang relies on talents poached from Germany, Italy and even Japan to achieve rapid development of the national science and technology industry economy.

But anyone with any sense knows that these external help will leave sooner or later and grow old.

Therefore, as early as 5 years ago, that is, the first time he "returned" to Borneo, Li Nian planned and built Nanyang University. As for the professors, they were basically recruited from Germany.

The university was built and professors were appointed.

Where did the students come from? Of course, they were recruited from Tangshan. The first batch of Nanyang University students was 7835. Except for a small number of task force members and Nanyang expatriates, the students basically came from Tangshan.

In the next few years, although Kuching Royal University, Yongning, Yongan, Taiping, Chung Hsing, Dongning and other universities were opened successively, they did not encounter any problems in the source of students. After all, Tangshan still has a very sufficient number of middle school students.

“…At that time, our students mainly came from Tangshan. Although the Anti-Japanese War affected all aspects, education has developed greatly. In 48 years, there were more than 120 middle school students in school. However, due to the efforts of the authorities and education colleagues, by the end of the Anti-Japanese War, The number of students in secondary schools has increased to more than 4 million, instead of falling. The number of students in higher education has also increased, from more than 8 before the war to more than in four or five years. It’s just the rear area, and if we include the Liberation Area, the source of middle school and college students is still very sufficient..."

On the campus of Yongning University, while walking with the commander-in-chief, Jiang Menglin reported another thing that he was most concerned about at the moment.

“So, at that time we were not worried about student resources, we were only worried about the school’s hardware problems.”

As the president of Yongning University, Jiang Menglin resigned with Mr. Song three years ago, and then came to Nanyang at his invitation to participate in the establishment of Yongning University. What he was most worried about at that time was not the professors, but the dormitories, teaching buildings, especially It is hardware including educational equipment.

But just a few months later, he found that his worries were unnecessary. Not only was the university's construction speed very fast, even the teaching equipment was world-class, and most of them were the latest teaching equipment ordered from the United States. equipment.

It was precisely because of this that he was so ambitious that he wanted to establish the first university in Nanyang - he wanted to compete with Nanyang University. Relying on Tangshan's reputation, he had a natural advantage in recruiting students. Therefore, in just three years, Yongning University has become a presence not inferior to Nanyang University in Nanyang. As for the graduate school, it has gathered more than 4,000 outstanding students from Tangshan.

But it was at this time that the drastic changes in Tangshan dealt an unprecedented blow to his ambitions - his source of students was gone.

Because of this, after the arrival of the commander-in-chief, Jiang Menglin specifically mentioned the issue of students.

"Now, although there are hundreds of thousands of middle school students in Nanyang, less than 8.7 will graduate from high school this year, only 7.9 next year, and only 7.5 the year after that. It will have to wait until five to five years to break through 10 again, which will inevitably affect to the student sources of various universities, so if the student source problem is not solved, I am worried that our higher education will be unsustainable. Although the fertility rate has been considerable in recent years, it cannot wait until more than ten years later."

Hearing him mention the issue of students, Li Yian nodded in agreement and said.

"This is indeed a problem. In the past few years, we have relied on temporary schools to supplement the student supply. However, there are only so many students in the temporary school. When they graduate, the student supply will be cut off."

The "temporary schools" in Li Yian's words are "exile students" recruited from Tangshan. They include primary school students, junior high school students, and high school students. Due to the changes in the situation in Tangshan, there are enough students who have fled to the south and south of the Yangtze River from all over the country. There were hundreds of thousands of them. After they arrived in the south, they encountered many problems in life and teaching, so Nanyang sent people to lobby them to come to Nanyang. Later, a large number of teachers and students came to Nanyang.

After they arrived in Nanyang, they were placed in temporary schools in various places, where they continued their education.

"What about King's School? King's School should still have some students."

Li Yi'an specifically mentioned King's School. When King's School enrolled students, they recruited primary school students and junior high school students into the school. Now some of them are already in high school, but they are not included in the statistics of the Ministry of Education. .

This is also the most special thing about King's School. It is independent from the country's education system. Of course, the education methods implemented there are also at different stages.

"Looking back, I will ask King's School to contact the education department and count how many high school students there have been in the past few years." Li Yi'an said.

"Your Excellency, in the final analysis, the King's School is just like a university. It is a rootless foundation. Without the supplement of Tangshan, there will be fewer graduates."

Jiang Menglin bluntly pointed out that King's School was not the root of the cure. After all, King's School's students came from Tangshan just like the university.

Now that the source of education in Tangshan has been cut off, there is a problem with the university’s student resources, and the King’s School is not much better.

Then he said.

“If we want to fundamentally solve the problem, we must expand the source of students.”

"Principal Jiang, do you have any good suggestions?"

"Recruit international students."

Jiang Menglin said directly.

"There are almost 10 million overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Adding the Bay Island and Hong Kong Island, recruiting international students should solve part of the problem. If we can recruit 1,000 more people, we can recruit 1,000 more people. If necessary, I think it should be implemented in overseas Chinese schools. In addition, we encourage the establishment of overseas Chinese middle schools, just like the Ministry of Education has brought schools in Zamboanga and Surabaya under its management. I think that as long as local conditions permit, we can set up overseas Chinese schools and bring them into the management of the Ministry of Education and dispatch teachers. , provide teaching materials, make full use of the resources of overseas Chinese, and even set up overseas Chinese schools in the United States and Cuba. In a word, make full use of the resources of the overseas Chinese population in various places.”

After arriving at the Bay Island in another time and space, he engaged in agricultural revitalization, and then advocated limiting underpopulation. After arriving in Nanyang, Jiang Menglin did not understand why Nanyang encouraged births at first, but through observation and understanding in the past three years, he realized that Nanyang encouraged births The fundamental reason is the shortage of labor force - even now, when the population has exceeded 3700 million, with the prosperity of industry, the labor force is still tight, so much so that the industrial circles have called in newspapers to further increase the introduction of foreign labor force. To alleviate the labor shortage in Nanyang.

This also caused a fundamental change in his view on population - a large population is not necessarily a burden. As long as there are industries to absorb excess labor, a seemingly large population may become a dividend. Because of this, he even reflected on his views on population and wrote to his former colleagues to discuss these issues together.

Now, Nanyang's shortage of university students is essentially due to insufficient population. After all, at that time, Nanyang University’s admissions process faced the entire Tangshan. Now that the door in Tangshan cannot be opened, let’s find a way among the overseas Chinese!

"Support expatriate education..."

After thinking for a moment, Li Yian said.

"Well, it is indeed necessary to support overseas education, whether it is to expand the role of students, maintain our national traditions, and promote the inheritance of national culture, um..."

After a pause, Li Yian said again.

"The Ministry of Education will then formulate a charter to first establish overseas Chinese schools in Nanyang and promote Chinese education for overseas Chinese, but..."

Turning to look at Jiang Menglin, Li Yian said.

"Now is different from the past. I'm afraid there will be resistance to overseas Chinese school education, especially with the end of the colonial era. Localization will be the general direction of the future of the colonies, unless..."

(End of this chapter)