He frowned and looked at the meeting notice in his hand. When he was sure that he had not missed any of the words, Chu Zhendong covered the notice with a fiery red seal with expressionless expression on the table in front of him. The secretary standing in front of Chu Zhendong looked at Chu Zhendong with a worried face, sighed softly, and withdrew from Chu Zhendong's principal's office, and took the door of Chu Zhendong's office.

The office location of Southwest Associated University is in Wenxin Building, west of the school. Wenxin Building is an old-fashioned brick-structured house. The building is divided into two floors. It has a history of more than 40 years at Southwest Associated University. With the insistence of the principal Chu Zhendong, this two-story old-fashioned building has become the office location of Southwest Associated University. While this somewhat simple old-fashioned teaching building has become the office location of the school, Southwest Associated University also has an additional computer room that can accommodate more than 300 people on the computer. The physics laboratory and biochemical experiments to which the school belongs have also been expanded and a batch of experimental equipment was purchased. In addition, the young teachers and staff of the school also have a single apartment. When someone asked why Chu Zhendong spent the money used to renovate the office building in these places, Chu Zhendong smiled and said the following sentence.

"The great man is not a building with a school, but a school with a master!"

Chu Zhendong's office is on the second floor of Wenxin Building. After the secretary walked out, Chu Zhendong sighed, got up from the chair, and stood in front of the office window. Outside the window was facing a yard in front of Wenxin Building. The window in the room was an old-fashioned push-pull type. With a "cry", it was a little tight. Chu Zhendong pushed open the window and fastened the buckle of the window. At this moment, a gust of wind blew outside the window. The meeting notice on the table flew up with the wind without any weight, rolled in the air and landed in a corner of the house. At the top of the front of the notice, there were several big words as red as the color of the seal - "Notice of the National Higher Education Work Conference".

Looking at the clumps of green bamboos that were taller after the rain outside the window, Chu Zhendong's face had not diminished a little. The bamboo leaves were shaking in the wind, and from time to time, one or two bamboo leaves fell from the branches and fell down with the wind. There were obvious signs of water accumulation under the green bamboos, which were left after the rain yesterday. The falling bamboo leaves were sticking to the wet ground without any anger.

Yes are like swords, and bamboos are like swords, but no matter what kind of bamboo is, how long can it last under the wind and rain and the rustling autumn wind?

"If this continues, the country will not be a country!" Chu Zhendong sighed deeply with concern.

Chu Zhendong was already very clear about the main content of this National Higher Education Work Conference. First, the national college enrollment will be expanded. Next year, all colleges and universities across the country will expand the scale by 30% on the basis of this year's enrollment. Second, reform the school's investment system, which on the surface is to "establish a system that mainly uses national fiscal appropriations and other multiple channels to raise education funds as a supplement." However, in fact, it is equivalent to the state's responsibility for running schools to society and the people. From now on,

The country's actual education allocation will only be more than 50% of the plan, and the rest will be solved by each school. The third is to reform the internal management system of colleges and universities. In a word, from now on, colleges and universities will no longer be "public institutions" but "industrial units". Fourth, the reform of education fees... Everything announced and decided at this meeting made Chu Zhendong feel like a knife. As an educator with a long-term vision, Chu Zhendong knew very well what the consequences of these measures were.

"Industrialization - the only way out for my country's education!"

The remarks and views of those so-called bullshit experts and imperial scholars made people like Chu Zhendong lower their figures and curse, "Don't you goofy bullshit, you bastards of dogs and bastards!" When Chu Zhendong first saw the inner reference of the principal of the branch that his secretary showed him, he only glanced at the title, and Chu Zhendong slapped the table and cursed. Following his secretary who had been for more than ten years, he stood aside in amazement. For more than ten years, he had never seen Chu Zhendong lose his composure.

When I saw the meeting notice today, I thought that what I was most worried about had become a fact. After a suffocation, Chu Zhendong's heart was already cold and there was still a deep helplessness. Chu Zhendong knew that all of this was no longer something he could change, although he was the principal and the principal of Southwest Associated University.

When Chu Zhendong thought that from now on, his school would be like those chimney-packed factories to produce economic benefits, he was always a little chimneyed. Which country in the world would treat his country's students as commodities to extract economic benefits? The country's major plan, ten years of cultivation, a hundred years of cultivation, the rise and fall of the country, is all about education! These are all the blood and tears experiences obtained by the Chinese people with hundreds of years of humiliation history. Why did the Qing Dynasty complete the country? Why did the country encounter a great disaster and a great shame in modern times, and almost exterminate the race? All of these, from the perspective of an educator, can be rooted in the failure of national education at that time. Putting aside all the idealistic or materialistic historical views, we will only talk about a very simple truth. As long as it is a truth that junior high school students can understand, the most substantial thing about the struggle between countries is actually the struggle between people, "

The struggle between a group of people and another "group of people" is. When others have guns, cannons, warships, planes, modern army, and you only have big swords, spears, fast horses, bows and arrows, how do you fight with others? Without talent, how can you create those things, and how can you understand the gap between hot weapons wars and cold weapons wars? And talents, besides correct and appropriate education, can they be cultivated? Don't tell me those individual examples. Zeng Guofan Zuo Zongtang Zhang Zhidong is a talent. They are not only talents, but also great talents among talents. But when such talents start from the perspective of cultivating talents and then rise to the height of the country and the system, their significance is actually sad. More than 10 million square kilometers of land have a great country with a population of 40 million. How many Zeng Guofans, Zuo Zongtang, and Zhang Zhidong have emerged?

People all think that today's country is not the same as before, but people can also know that today's powers are not the same as before? This gap may be even greater than in some places more than a hundred years ago.

Looking out the window, a few more bamboo leaves fell down, flipping around and falling on the grass from a high place. Chu Zhendong took a deep breath of air. While suppressing the deep anger in his heart, deep helplessness surged in his heart. As a principal, a senior educator, and a person who cares about the fate of the country and the nation, Chu Zhendong had to stand at a higher position to see through the harm brought by this reform of the higher education system.

The number of students in the next year will be expanded by 30%? It will continue to expand in the future. It is a good thing to expand enrollment, but if the existing school hardware conditions and faculty cannot keep up, the most direct consequence is that the quality of education for all students in the school will inevitably decline. Not only freshmen, sophomore, junior, and even seniors will be affected to a certain extent. The reason is that the school’s original educational resources must be sacrificing quality when the quantity must be guaranteed. The experimental classes that could have been done three times can only be reduced to two times. It originally took two hours for school teachers to prepare lessons, but after the number of courses taught, it is possible.

It can turn into an hour... This is a fact that I can't change even if the king of heaven is unable to change. It cannot be solved by opening his mouth and shouting a few slogans of "Education to Prosper the Country". If the investment in education is not increased accordingly, the expansion of enrollment will turn from good things to bad things. The more serious consequences will gradually be reflected in four years. All universities in China will gradually become mediocre under the huge pressure of student sources and shortage of education investment. Elite education is the essence of university education. At that time, the essence will be lost. Universities in China can only train workers for foreign-funded enterprises. Foreigners have not been a hundred years ago.

What they have done is a hundred years later, maybe they can do it without a single shot. Now, the per capita education investment in China ranks third from the bottom among more than 200 countries and regions around the world, and it is not even comparable to the poor African country Uganda. It is really the national humiliation of today's countries. The country's education investment in recent years has always been below 3% of the total domestic GDP value, while the world average is 5%. Combined with the domestic educated population and the world's educated population, the country is actually using 1.02% of the world's education funds to cultivate 19.86% of the world's world

Students have even less investment in basic education. All these data are ringing the alarm for the Chinese people. The insufficient investment in education in the country has allowed the people to pay for education investment. After the reform of the college fee system, the minimum investment of a four-year college student is about 50,000 yuan for a family. What kind of astronomical figure is this for a family in a country with a per capita GDP of less than US$1,000? At that time, how many students who desire knowledge will be blocked from colleges and universities because of the tuition threshold.

When Chu Zhendong thought of those eyes that longed for knowledge, he felt ache in his heart.

When many families save money on their expenses in order to cultivate a college student, what about the students who come to the school? The shortage of educational investment makes them unable to enjoy teaching resources that match their tuition fees. In the end, they don’t learn what they should learn, but they learn a lot of useless things. Once they leave the school, they will find that their 16-year educational experience has been hard work. In the end, they have only experienced a little consumption value that contributed to the growth of the country’s GDP. I wonder what they would think?

Is the school the winner in this change? It can be said that there will be no winner in this change in China. In a short period of time, he may be able to temporarily alleviate the employment pressure in China, or add a little upward weight to officials who only look at GDP and decide how high the black hat on their heads is worn. It can even allow some officials to claim on some special occasions how much contribution they have made to the country's education. The proportion of the population with college education in China has increased by a lot compared to before, but can these colorful numbers explain what the problem? So far in China, no one has won the Nobel Prize, which is the most telling.

The country's current education investment is seriously insufficient. If you go to this, it will be like adding fuel to the fire.

Chu Zhendong still clearly remembered the helplessness he had when a young professor who was very talented in researching CNC technology that he valued not long ago when he applied for resignation. Chu Zhendong also kept the letter of resignation from the young professor. Chu Zhendong often took out the letter of resignation. Every time he read it, Chu Zhendong reminded himself that he still had many things he had not done well and many things he had not completed.

Later, Chu Zhendong simply pressed the letter glass on the desk of his desk so that he could see it at any time. After pondering at the window for two minutes, Chu Zhendong returned to his desk. As soon as he sat down, the letter came into his eyes.

"Hello, Principal Chu!

I'm sorry, I've let you down at this time.

It can be said that you are one of the people I respect most, and it has not changed even now. When I graduated from the Institute of Mechanical Research, Aachen University of Technology, I gave up the annual salary of $300,000 and the retention of my supervisor because of a conversation with you, and decided to return to China. I believed that with what I learned, maybe I could do something for the country. I was also working hard to do this. After more than two years of back, the environment and reality here made me deeply disappointed. Please forgive me for saying this. I know you have tried your best. I have always been grateful to you and admire you very much.

I am not a materialist. I just arrived at school. A single apartment of 40 square meters plus a monthly salary of about 5,000 yuan can make me live a good life here. My departure was not because of material reasons. If I had to find some material reasons, the only thing I had an opinion is that I don’t have a special laboratory until now. I know this is not your reason, and you have been working hard for the laboratory. But when I was in class, it was really difficult to use a few simple pictures to explain to the students what the CNC system is and how to build machine tool servo, but my students are very smart. It can be said that they are the smartest and most diligent students I have ever met. They have lofty ideals and are full of passion. This is a place that makes me feel comforted. I am very happy to be with them.

Principal Chu, I just said that my departure was not due to material reasons. The most fundamental reason why I left was disappointed with the students I taught. I hope that all the students I taught could use their expertise in suitable positions and make their own contributions to the country. Many people thought so when they were in school. But do you know how many of the two groups of students I taught are now studying CNC systems? None of them, none of them! And this is exactly why I want to leave.

I can't blame them here. I know that they have tried their best and you have tried their best. After graduation, they usually face two choices. One is to go to a small business with a monthly salary of 800 yuan to continue to tinker with those dilapidated old machine tools, and the other is to use some of the knowledge they have learned about machine tools to be salesmen, and to sell their machine tools for Siemens in D or Fanucko in J country. If they are selling first-class CNC machine tools, maybe I would be a little happier, but unfortunately, first-class CNC machine tools are national strategic materials. No matter how rich you are, foreigners will not sell them to us. This is an ironic fact. Before this, I did not find that I still have the expertise of teaching marketing theory.

"... So far, research on CNC machine tools is still blank. More than 98% of our domestic enterprises are still using second-rate, third-rate, and even fourth-rate machine tools to produce products marked "Made in China". China is a manufacturing country, but not a manufacturing power. The difference between "big" and "strong" is more than an order of magnitude?..." Principal Chu knew the meaning very well. At the beginning, Principal Chu used this to convince me and gave me the idea of ​​returning to China. Principal Chu was right, but unfortunately, there were too few people in China who could have the same ideas as Principal Chu.

Many decision makers in China are not interested in research that does not produce results during their term or it is difficult to produce results. I think this is probably an important reason why President Chu could not apply for relevant research funds. The last time Principal Chu was joined by the domestic machine tool factory to develop the plan, probably because of this reason, it was a better choice for some people to cooperate with the people of J. It is still a third-rate production technology. As long as the people of J can improve a little bit more than the original, they will be happy as long as they can be better than other similar companies in China.

I hope to go to a place that allows me to learn and use my expertise, rather than teach my students here how to help Chinese people, d Chinese people, and m Chinese people sell their machine tools after graduation.

If there is a better research environment in China, I am willing to come back and contribute my meager strength.

Sincerely!

Zong Zhengyan

Eastern Yuan calendar July 17, 2097”

Chu Zhendong read the letter again, and a trace of decisive light flashed in his eyes.

"Your old bones will shine again!"
Chapter completed!