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Chapter VI, Education Reform

The new official takes office for three reasons, and it is even less necessary for Franz, the new emperor, to ascend the throne. If you don’t make any achievements, how can you be worthy of his identity as a time traveler?

"Reform" has become the theme of the government. There are many problems with the Austrian Empire. Even after the Great Revolution last year and a lot of garbage was cleared out, the carrion attached to the empire is still there.

Want to cut off your flesh? It hurts so much. Franz said that the current Austrian Empire cannot afford to be injured. Without anesthetics, it may cause death.

If he was not going to commit suicide like this, he would have to eliminate the hidden dangers bit by bit. Anyway, the serfs have been liberated and the land problem has been solved, and the working class has barely filled their stomachs.

The bourgeoisie and the verbal party who dared to cause trouble, after the great purge some time ago, there was little left.

Those who survived are smart people who know what they can say and what they cannot say; what they can do and what they cannot do.

Vienna citizens who had experienced a revolution hated the revolutionary party to the core. Who dared to promote revolutionary ideas to them, keep them in a custody and beat them up, and then sent them to the police station.

So far, the Vienna Police Station has accepted dozens of such rebels. One has caught a nest. After several months of public security rectification, hundreds of rebels have been arrested, which has severely hit the arrogance of the revolutionaries.

A large part of them were young students, which made Franz very angry and made up his mind to rectify the Austrian education system.

Free speech is OK, but everyone must be responsible for what they have said, talk nonsense, spread rumors and malicious slander, all those who are maliciously slandered must go to prison to reflect on them.

The fact that schools are independent of the government and do not accept supervision by government departments will never be returned. Especially universities, they are the focus of supervision.

For example, before the March Revolution, the University of Vienna refused to enter the police to arrest the revolutionary party, which is now impossible.

If it really happens, then I'm sorry to all those who hinder the performance of official duties and go to prison with criminals. It doesn't exist in Austria if the law does not blame the public.

"Earl Huoheng, what specific plans does the Ministry of Education have to strengthen ideological education for young students?" Franz asked

The Minister of Education Count Leo von Tus-Horgh hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Education has decided to add ideological education teachers to the school to be responsible for the ideological education of students. Once there are bad signs, they will be strangled immediately.

In order to strengthen the management of schools, the Ministry of Education decided that in the future, the appointment of major leaders of schools must be submitted to the education department for approval, and the same is true for private schools.

The number of students enrolled by the school every year must be filed with the local education department; the faculty and staff hired by the school must have correct ideas and no criminal record.

In order to strengthen the management of universities and universities, the Ministry of Education will provide reference opinions on the number of students enrolled in each major.

The Ministry of Education will determine the amount of financial appropriations for the next year based on the performance of each school. For colleges and universities that frequently appear, they will be banned and the relevant responsible persons will be held legally responsible."

This is to start from the wallet. Education is very expensive. Without the support of the government, most schools will probably have to close by charging tuition fees alone.

In this era, Austria adopted an elite education model. Each school recruited few students, basically only a few hundred people, and there were also 180 faculty and staff.

In this case, without the grant from the Ministry of Education, if the tuition fees for primary and secondary schools are charged a little more, the students are all from rich families, and they may still be able to maintain them.

It’s not possible to get to university. If you don’t have money, you can’t afford to support experts and professors. Even if you recruit all liberal arts students, you can’t support them.

This is Austria, don’t expect social donations. Schools that are not popular with the government will also not be favored by celebrities.

Franz thought for a while and said: "The supervision work must be taken seriously, and it is very necessary for the Ministry of Education to guide schools to recruit students.

Some majors that are not needed in society recruit so many students, and graduation is equivalent to unemployment. Isn’t this a misleading child?

While supervising, the education responsibility system must be implemented, and in addition to the problems, the person responsible can be held accountable.

The principal of a school is the first person in charge. As a principal, it is the responsibility to educate every student well. When we arrive at the class, we can implement the responsibility system of class teachers and designate a teacher to be responsible for a class.

You will determine the specific situation based on the actual situation. Before the implementation of compulsory education, we must first manage the existing schools.

This kind of management must be strategic. While ensuring the smooth progress of teaching work, students' ideological education should also be strengthened.

However, it is unnecessary to set up a special ideological education teacher, which is very easy to cause a rebound.

We can divide these ideological education into subjects such as history, politics, and language, and list these contents as compulsory contents for the entrance examination.

The Ministry of Education should supervise the entrance examinations well and not let people mess around. If the children of rich people want to have poor grades, they should pay a school sponsorship fee if they want to go to school. Don’t let these people mess up our education system.”

Franz is also preventing the problem from getting worse. If he does not leave a way for rich people, they will find ways to corrupt the education system. It is better to clearly mark the price than to do so.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t pass the exam. If you give the money to go in, it’s your child’s own problem. If it really doesn’t work, 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 popularize compulsory education, should we limit private education now? These private schools are always a hidden danger.

Education is sacred and should not become a tool for some people to seek their own interests!”

His words were not unfounded. After a survey of young students involved in the Vienna rebellion, it was found that nearly 80% of them were from private schools.

Young students who often participate in marches and demonstrations are basically students from private schools, and public schools usually prohibit students from leaving campus during class.

In other words, the source of revolutionary ideas is mostly spread from these private schools independent of the government system, subtly affecting the life concepts of young people.

What’s ridiculous is that such private schools also received education funds from the Austrian government. In the end, the Austrian government paid for the money, and capitalists made money and trained a group of anti-government students.

"This is indeed a problem. How is the Ministry of Education ready to solve it?" Franz asked

As the emperor, he did not have the habit of thinking about everything himself and asking his subordinates to follow the execution.

If he really does this, the people below will be idle and he will be exhausted. Such diligent emperors usually have short lives, and there are many in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

What’s even more tragic is that if you don’t have enough experience, you can easily do stupid things. You can work hard to do, but the final gain is thankless. The representative one is Emperor Chongzhen.

A person's wisdom is always not as good as a group of people's wisdom. If you have a specialized career, it is better for professionals to do professional things.

As an emperor, he can revise his subordinates' plans or abolish their plans, but he must never let his subordinates make plans.

Count Leo von Tus-Horn replied: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Education is still discussing this issue, and there are two ways to deal with it for us to choose from.

First, private schools are prohibited from continuing to build private schools. The government will invest in the acquisition of established private schools and fully include education within the scope of government management;

Second, stop the education funding for private schools, strengthen the approval of the establishment of private schools, and strengthen the management of private schools."

Both models are fighting against private schools, but the first one is more extreme.

The Ministry of Education now hates the messy thoughts, and for this reason, nearly 100 teachers have been expelled from public schools, some of which have been sent to education.

Franz sneered and said, "Stop allocating funds to private schools. Since it is a private school, it will naturally be self-profit and loss.

Another investor responsibility system must be added to strengthen the management of private schools.

If there is a large-scale spread of illegal ideas in private schools, let the capitalists behind the scenes go to prison together with the principal!”

The Austrian government should still pay attention to the appearance of eating, and it is impossible to solve the problem in one-size-fits-all ways. In European society, education in this era was originally a business.

It’s just that this is a unique business and has been given different meanings. People who invest in education in this era are definitely not so-called philanthropists, they are all purposeful.

Children of the lower class are not qualified to study. Even the cheapest church schools cannot afford even the most basic paper and pen.

In this environment, who has the ability to support poor students? This is not one or two, nor ten thousand or twelve thousand, but millions of people urgently need education.

The reality is much more cruel than what is recorded in textbooks. In this era, Franz knew very well that this was an era of darkness.
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