The academic and political education promoted by Yuwen Wen not only includes exam-oriented education corresponding to the imperial examinations, but also professional education to cultivate professional talents. In short, it gives scholars all over the world an additional way out, and there is no need to go one way out.

The imperial examinations in history have become very rigid by the Ming and Qing dynasties. Education that completely serves the imperial examinations is an examination-oriented education that studies hard. The talents cultivated under this examination-oriented education do not have anything but exams.

The consequence of this kind of examination-oriented education is to confine thoughts and exclude natural sciences. The scientific development of the Central Plains began to stagnate and was left farther and farther away by the West.

A large number of scholars have been struggling in old papers from childhood to old age to become an official, and have spent their entire lives in order to become an official. Yuwen Wen does not want his own "resurrected" imperial examination to go back to the old path, so he has to "improve" it at the beginning of the establishment of the system.

If the imperial examination is compared to the college entrance examination, then candidates who pass the imperial examination (pass the college entrance examination) and choose in the palace examination (pass the civil service examination) can directly become officials.

The tribute students who fail the palace examination can choose to enter the university (Imperial College) to study in relevant majors, and after graduation, they will be assigned (as a skilled official or a scholar-official official).

Or enter the military academy as a tribute student, receive a new military education, and after graduation, he entered the official position as a new military officer, and joined the army.

Let’s just skip the pen to join the army. This is the second path in Yuwen’s planning. Since there is a “first-tier university” (Imperial College), there are “second-tier universities” (a few top-notch prefecture schools such as Huangzhou Prefecture School), and “high schools” (the prefecture schools where the main general administrations are located).

For ordinary students, if they fail to even pass the imperial examination, they can give up the imperial examination and relied on the "graduation examination" to be admitted to the Imperial College or Huangzhou Prefecture School, choose majors, receive professional education, and rely on "graduation assignments" to become officials.

This kind of professional education is actually an institutionalized school education, which prevents scholars from going to the dark road of the imperial examination.

For clans in various places, it is inevitable that they will do their best to support a few good seedlings and prepare for the imperial examinations wholeheartedly to seek a Jinshi and a first-class official position, because as long as one person becomes an official, the clan will be guaranteed.

But do those students with slightly inferior qualifications and even hopelessness for the exam have to study from childhood to old age, become white-haired children, wasting their good years?

No, this is a huge waste. In an era when the illiteracy rate is astonishingly high, every scholar is a potential talent. Yuwen Wen thinks that these potential talents are best used.

However, these scholars learned Confucian classics, or knowledge such as arithmetics passed down since ancient times. In the era when steam engines had already appeared, these knowledge was useless or outdated.

Thousands of years ago, there were no large manufacturing factories that operated day and night, no large ironmaking workshops that were like Flame Mountain, no complex textile and knitting machinery, and no machinery that feeds on coal.

Similarly, water pumps, cranes, "heating" and "air conditioning", steamship shipping, rail transportation, sea trade, commerce and various emerging industry management are not something that "traditional" scholars can understand.

Emerging industries have a large number of computing requirements, and the complexity of the problems cannot be solved by traditional arithmetic.

Society is changing, and the court needs more professional officials to manage all walks of life. Therefore, Yuwen Wen believes that after entering the officialdom, he will have a lot of opportunities to make achievements. If he cooperates with the qualification system, he will actually have a good future.

The premise is that these scholars must receive professional education, have solid professional knowledge, and graduate successfully.

Then, students who have no hope of sprinting for palace examinations or major examinations can take the entrance examinations for major states, and after attending, they will study the prescribed courses, and then do not take the imperial examination but take the entrance examination.

Pass the entrance examination and enter the "second-tier university" or "first-tier university" for in-depth professional study.

After rigorous professional education, after graduation, he became an official with a skilled official and was considered an official. He could use his professional knowledge to serve the court, have a salary to support his family, and did not waste time studying.

It seemed unnecessary for official schools to carry out large-scale professional education in ancient times, but nowadays, steam engines have emerged, driving the rapid development of related industries, so local governments need a large number of craft officials, which is difficult for traditional education to provide.

Professional education can provide technical talents stably, which can be said to be the best of both worlds, so it must be planned together with the imperial examination system in order to keep up with the development of the situation.

Deng Quan, whom Yuwen Wen met just now, was the top student in the clan, shouldering the hope of the whole clan and must continue to prepare for the imperial examination. Although the craftsman is also an official, it obviously does not meet the needs of most people for the officialdom, so Yuwen Wen advised the other party to go back and prepare for the examination three years later.

But Deng Quan’s classmates, ordinary students who fail to pass the imperial examination should not waste their entire lives on the imperial examination, and they can choose another path to ascendance.

If you don’t want to be a wise official, it doesn’t matter. You can choose to receive normal education and become an administrator.

Normal education is a type of professional education, and at least the reputation of academic officials sounds better, after all, they are teaching and educating people.

If these students really fail to get into the state school, it doesn’t matter. There are also various technical schools that have long-term enrollment, which also require students with basic reading, writing and calculation skills.

After graduating from school, students can easily find jobs and support their families with their own skills. This kind of education is technical education (vocational education).

The court's fiscal revenue has been increasing over the years, but it has basically been spent every year. One of the reasons is to promote a new style of academic administration that includes three types of education. However, even though the financial pressure is very high, Yuwen Wen gritted his teeth and even paid subsidies out of his own pocket.

To pave a reliable way out for scholars.

Scholars can be roughly divided into three categories: genius, ordinary and mediocre. He arranged three ways of taking exam-oriented education (inferior examination), professional education (including teacher education), and technical education (lower cultural requirements).

Three ways out allow scholars all over the world to have sufficient choices. If you do not have self-knowledge and insist on going black on the road of imperial examinations, you will become a white-haired child and do nothing for the rest of your life, you will not be able to blame others.

If someone doesn't choose three ways, and complains about the unfairness of the world, and says that the imperial examination black box operation, the court is blind and ignorant of talents, drinks all day long, writes anti-poems, and wants to retaliate against society, then, a free shipping ticket is available to go to Australia to open up land.

Although this grand plan still has a long way to go before perfection, and currently professional education and technical education are only being piloted in some areas, Yu Wen Wen is full of confidence in this.
Chapter completed!