Chapter 6 Educational Reform
There are three fires for new officials to take office, and Franz, the new emperor, will not be needed to ascend the throne. If he doesn't make some achievements, how can he be worthy of his identity as a traverser?
"Perestroika" became the main theme of the government, and the Austrian Empire had many problems, and even after last year's Great Revolution, a lot of garbage was cleaned up, but the carrion attached to the empire was still there.
Want to cut meat? It hurts so much that Franz said that the current Austrian Empire can't afford to be injured, and without anesthetic, it will kill someone.
If he is not ready to die like this, then he can only clear the hidden danger little by little. Anyway, the serfs had been emancipated, the land question had been settled, and the working class was barely filled.
The bourgeoisie and the artillerymen who dare to make trouble have gone through the great purge some time ago, and there is not much left.
Those who survive are smart people, and they know what they can and can't say; What can be done and what cannot be done.
The citizens of Vienna, who had experienced a revolution, hated the revolutionary party to the core, and who dared to propagate revolutionary ideas to them, kept a fat beating, and then sent to the police station.
So far, the Vienna Police Department has received dozens of such rebels. After several months of rectifying public order, hundreds of rebellious party elements were arrested, dealing a heavy blow to the arrogance of the revolutionaries.
A large number of them were young students, which made Franz very angry and determined to clean up the Austrian education system.
Freedom of speech is okay, but everyone must be held accountable for what they have said, and all nonsense, rumors, and malicious slander must be introspected in prison.
Gone are the days when schools were independent of the government and were not subject to government supervision. Universities, in particular, are the focus of regulation.
It is impossible to do the case before the March Revolution when the University of Vienna refused to allow the police to enter and arrest the Revolutionary Party.
If it really happens, then sorry for all those who obstruct the execution of their official duties, and go to prison with criminals, there is no such thing as a legal non-accountability in Austria.
"Earl Huo Hu, what specific plan does the Ministry of Education have to strengthen the ideological education of young students?" Franz asked
The Minister of Education, Count Leo von Tuss-Hoh, hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Education has decided to add ideological education teachers in schools, who are specially responsible for the ideological education of students.
In order to strengthen the management of schools, the Ministry of Education has decided that in the future, the appointment of key leaders in schools must be submitted to the education department for approval, and the same is true for private schools.
The number of students enrolled in the school each year must be reported to the local education department for the record; The faculty and staff hired by the school must have the correct ideological outlook and no criminal record.
In order to strengthen the management of universities and colleges, the Ministry of Education will provide reference opinions on the types of majors offered by schools and the number of students enrolled in each major.
The Ministry of Education will determine the amount of financial allocation for each institution in the coming year based on their performance. For colleges and universities with frequent problems, they will be banned, and the legal responsibility of the relevant responsible persons will be investigated. ”
Education is very expensive, and if there is no government support, it is estimated that most schools will close their doors just by collecting tuition fees.
At this time, Austria adopted an elite education model, and the number of students in each school was small, basically only a few hundred, and the teaching staff also had 180 people.
In this case, without funding from the Ministry of Education, if primary and secondary schools charge a little more tuition, the students are all children of rich families, and they may barely survive.
When you get to college, you can't afford to support experts and professors without money, and you can't support all liberal arts students.
This is Austria, don't expect donations from society, schools that are not treated well by the government, and are likewise not treated by celebrities.
Franz thought for a moment and said: "Supervision must be taken seriously, and it is very necessary for the Ministry of Education to guide school admissions.
Some majors that are not needed by society recruit so many students, and graduation is equivalent to unemployment, isn't this misleading?
At the same time of supervision, it is also necessary to implement the education responsibility system, in addition to the problems can be held accountable.
The principal of a school is the first person responsible, and as a principal, he has the responsibility to educate every student; When it comes to the class, we can implement the class teacher responsibility system and designate a teacher to be in charge of a class.
The specific situation is determined by you according to the actual situation. Before compulsory education is implemented, we must first manage the existing schools.
This kind of management must pay attention to strategy, and while ensuring the smooth progress of teaching work, it is also necessary to strengthen students' ideological education.
However, there is no need to set up a special ideological education teacher, which is very likely to cause a backlash.
We can divide these ideological education into subjects such as history, politics, and language, and make these contents a compulsory part of the entrance examination.
The Ministry of Education should supervise the entrance examination and not let people mess with it. If the children of the rich want to have bad grades, if they want to go to school, let them pay a school sponsorship fee, and don't let these people mess up our education system. ”
Franz is also on guard, if they don't leave a way for the rich, they will find a way to corrupt the education system, and it is better to mark the price clearly than this.
It doesn't matter if you can't pass the exam, you can give money to go in, and whether you can graduate or not is your child's own problem. It's really not good, when the time comes, you can pay another sum of money and sell your child a graduation certificate.
Prime Minister Felix proposed: "Your Majesty, since we have decided to make compulsory education universal, is it time to restrict private education?" These private schools are always a hidden danger.
Education is sacred and should not be turned into a tool for some people's personal gain! ”
His words were not unfounded, and a survey of young students who had taken part in the Vienna rebellion found that nearly 80 percent of them had left private schools.
Most of the young students who take part in the demonstrations are private school students, and public schools usually prohibit students from leaving the campus during school hours.
In other words, most of the sources of revolutionary ideas spread from these private schools, which were independent of the government system, and subtly influenced the young people's concept of life.
The irony is that this kind of private school also takes the education funds of the Austrian government. In the end, the Austrian government contributed money, and the capitalists made money from it and cultivated a group of anti-government students.
"This is indeed a problem, how is the Ministry of Education going to solve it?" Franz asked
As an emperor, he didn't have the habit of thinking about everything himself and letting his subordinates follow it.
If he really does that, the people below will be idle, and he will die of exhaustion. This kind of diligent emperor is usually relatively short-lived, and there are a bunch of them in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.
What's even more tragic is that if you don't have enough experience, it's easy to do stupid things. Tired and tired, the final harvest is thankless, and the representative is Emperor Chongzhen.
A person's wisdom is always inferior to the wisdom of a group of people.
As an emperor, you can revise your people's plans or cancel their plans, but you must not let your people do their plans.
Count Leo von Tus Ho Hum replied: "Your Majesty, this issue is still under discussion in the Ministry of Education, and there are two ways for us to deal with it.
First, it prohibits the private sector from continuing to build private schools, and the government funds the acquisition of private schools that have already been established, so as to fully bring education into the scope of government management;
Second, stop funding for private schools, strengthen the examination and approval of the establishment of private schools, and strengthen the management of private schools. ”
Both models are targeting private schools, but the first is more extreme.
The Ministry of Education now abhors messy thinking, and for this reason nearly 100 teachers have been fired from public schools, some of whom have been sent to education.
Franz sneered and said: "Stop funding private schools, since they are private schools, they will naturally have to pay for their own profits and losses."
It is also necessary to add another investor responsibility system to strengthen the management of private schools.
If there is an incident of mass dissemination of illegal ideas in private schools, let the capitalists behind the scenes go to jail with the principals! ”
The Austrian government still needs to pay attention to the appearance of food, and it is impossible to solve the problem in one fell swoop. In European society, education in this era was originally a business.
It's just that it's a unique business that has been given a different meaning. The people who invest in education in this era are definitely not so-called philanthropists, they are all purposeful.
The children of the lower classes are not eligible to go to school, even in the cheapest church schools, and they cannot afford even the most basic paper and pen.
In this environment, who can afford to sponsor poor students? It's not just one or two, it's not 12,000, it's millions of people who are in dire need of education.
The reality is far more brutal than what is recorded in the textbooks, and in this era, Franz knows very well that this is a dark era.