"Responsively, the teaching process is also divided into five steps: First, teachers provide children with a situation related to current social life experience; Second, make children prepare to deal with problems arising from the situation; Third, children can think and assume about solving problems; Fourth, children organize and arrange their own assumptions on solving problems; Fifth, children test these hypotheses through application."

“Of course, I know it’s not easy to implement such an education system, but it’s the best way to cultivate the citizens you’ve proposed.”

Zheng Yu looked at the American educator and his heart was not as calm as he seemed.

Everything Dewey said made him think of too much.

Regarding Dewey, he roughly knew in his previous life that this person had a great influence on education in the Republic of China, and was also the teacher of Hu Shi, Tao Xingzhi, Jiang Menglin and others. It can be said that during the Republic of China period, China trained a group of scholars of world-class standards, which were closely related to Dewey's educational thoughts.

On the other hand, he also knew that Dewey's thought was still insignificant in China's entire education system. A country's education cannot rely on several universities at the top of the pyramid, but more on the entire education system with compulsory education as the foundation, and even the entire socially dominant culture.

The education system of modern and modern China in later generations was generally imitated by Japan before World War II and the Soviet Union after World War II. It had distinct authoritative and utilitarian colors, mixed with strong ideological components, and directly served the interests of the ruling class. It took ideological education as the fundamental principle and completely "cast" human resources in batches based on the factory model.

The root of it lies in the view of man as an ordinary means of production, and the complete neglect and wanton trampling on all individual values. This is closely related to the collective supremacy and authoritarianism in the field of social ideology.

In this time and space... Although Zheng Ying himself, as a high school teacher, has many of his own insights into education, the problems of national culture, social structure, and even political, economic and national defense needs still push Chinese education onto a similar track.

At this moment, Zheng Yu gradually became convinced that he could organize a group of intellectuals to improve culture, he could also guide public opinion through his own attitude, and he could even deify his father and himself, forcibly instill a set of ideas into the people of this country. But the roots of authoritarianism...mi believes in authority, worship the foundation of power, and follow the conservative and inconsistent traditions, but it is still difficult for him to shake, or at least it is currently unshakable.

When the most advanced elements of this country have just started to receive such a set of education since they were sensible, and have heard of such an authoritative philosophy, how can they expect these people to lead all the people to become real citizens? They will only jump out of a ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruthless ruth

Education...

It takes a hundred years to cultivate people, but now it seems that if the system of building people is to be changed, it may really take a hundred years, or even longer.

"I am very interested in your thoughts." Zheng Yu pondered for a while and said, "So specifically, if you want to reform education, how do you need to start?"

Dewey was excited.

Although he believed that the other party had a good impression of science and the rule of law, he was not sure what the emperor had about education, nor did he expect that he could easily convince this young man with a firm will. But now it seems... things are obviously going well, so that it makes him a little unbelievable.

"Reforming education must first start with details, and the most important thing is to change the training system of normal schools." Dewey said, "The original teacher education system began in Britain and France, mainly to meet the needs of the industrial revolution, produce teachers in a factory model, and then produce students by these standardized teachers. The current teacher system in your country is roughly like this... It turns out that school life generally revolves around teachers... and the real subject of education, and the starting point and goal of education should be children."

"My ideal teacher system... cannot pay unilateral attention to teachers' professional knowledge, but should strengthen the cultivation of children's psychology, children's comprehensive education, etc., and focus on avoiding authoritative education. It should be said that teachers themselves bring the educational methods of normal schools to their own classrooms in the future to educate students, so the kind of normal schools will be the kind of schools.

"There should be more interaction between teachers and students, that is, from unilateral indoctrination to cooperative, interactive education that participates together. Teachers must have independent and mature personality. They must have the ability and power to propose education and activity arrays, and be responsible for the educational results. For the training of teachers, we cannot simply adopt training methods, but should implement socialized interactive education throughout the training of teachers."

"The training of teachers is not a few years of education in normal schools, but a continuous education that continues to retire. We must establish a forced retraining system to continuously update teachers' knowledge structure, improve their teaching methods, and share the latest research results in the field of education."

"The education system needs to be a dynamic, variable system, rather than the everlasting mechanical system under the philosophical system of Hegel's absolute truth."

Zheng Yu listened quietly.

"The change in education methods involves the cognition of knowledge." Dewey said, "The traditional authoritative concept, whether it is the words of the Eastern saints, the absolute truths of Prue, or the Catholic Bible, actually regards knowledge as an absolute, static, and objective thing. In fact, the tool of knowledge and knowledge itself is not the purpose. Knowledge is not objective, knowledge is a subjective reaction. I tend to regard knowledge as an experience, and its purpose knowledge is a tool of human beings, so the goal of education is not knowledge, but people, and people to realize their own value."

"Knowledge, or experience, is a single, dynamic and complete organic whole. Experience is not only related to the situation where experience is generated, but also itself is a continuous development process. Therefore, education must also use human growth as clues to form a complete and systematic process."

"The same is true for human value. The purpose of life actually lies in the course of life itself. Life does not exist for a specific purpose. The purpose is to obey life itself, that is, there is no ultimate goal, but only the stage of the stage, which exists as a stage that helps life become more complete and happy. Therefore, experience is subject to life, and the course of life itself is both the starting point and the focus of education; it is both the way of education and the purpose of education."

He looked at Zheng Yulu's thoughtful look and asked softly with difficulty in his heart: "Your Majesty..."

"I think I understand what you mean." Zheng Yu was silent for a while and nodded, "You are actually reminding me that education is subject to the individual itself, and should not succumb to the purpose imposed by the outside world; people also obey their own growth process, that is, life itself is the purpose, not life serves a certain supreme purpose. Therefore, truth is not supreme, knowledge is not fixed, everything must be subject to people. People are the subject of social activities and education. And the people here are individual, concrete, not just collective, abstract."

Dewey was shocked.

His educational theory is very leading even in Europe and the United States, and even deviant. But the emperor opposite, especially from the traditional Eastern society and the highest power, did not expect to easily understand this educational concept.

"Mr. Dewey, I must admit that the whole set of educational theories you mentioned make sense." Zheng Yu paused and continued to say, "Man is the spirit of all things, man is higher than God. God's existence is for man. After all, God's existence is for man. People are born equal, and there is no natural world that revolves around one or several individuals. Some people are naturally nobler than others and have a more divine personality. Then it can be deduced that everyone himself is irreplaceable and cannot be quantified and measured. In a sense, the value of an individual is not naturally less than the value of two individuals. Each individual has its sacred and natural freedom and rights, and should be protected and regulated from law to morality and state machinery. This is also the cornerstone of a democratic rule of law society."

Dewey quietly observed Zheng Yu.

"Whether education or social activities are the ultimate goal of every specific and minor individual in this society, and cannot be simply summarized and represented by a whole interest, nor can it infringe and sacrifice the rights and freedoms of individuals under the sign of a whole interest."

"The so-called freedom itself is a combination of rights and obligations. Human rights are based on their fulfillment of obligations; while human obligations are based on their enjoyment of corresponding rights. The traditional education method is based on traditional social culture, that is, rights and obligations are not equal, freedom is divided, and the rights of the superiors overwhelm the obligations, while the inferiors are one-sidedly forced and fooled to bear too many obligations, but do not enjoy corresponding rights, that is, the master enjoys rights and slaves assume obligations, forming a distinctive social structure... Therefore, a democratic and legal society must cultivate the integrity and independence of citizens' personality, cultivate their understanding of their own rights and freedoms, and their relationship with public interests, so that they can learn to assume rights and corresponding obligations in society, handle the relationship between people well, and know how to respect the rights and freedoms of others."

"As an educated person and a future citizen, the most important thing is that he must have a complete and independent personality and his own thinking ability. He will not blindly become a slave to other people's thoughts and certain wonderful slogans. He must also learn how to correctly exercise his rights and fulfill his obligations, understand that the purpose of his education is not to become a new master and to infringe on the rights of others... They are self-esteem, self-confidence, self-improvement, responsible for everything they do, know how to distinguish the boundaries of personal rights and public interests, respect others, but do not believe in authority, believe in themselves, but can constantly learn and learn from them."

"These are all very good ideas." Zheng Yu spread his hands, "The problem is...............If my understanding is correct, this education system has not been implemented abroad and is incompatible with the traditional education methods......... Where can I find teachers who match all this? How can I formulate a complete set of specific educational arrays, strategies, teaching methods, and textbooks... Even if we want to do it, what should we do?"

"I have money." Zheng Yu said calmly, "As long as it is feasible, I can allocate enough funds. But how can people solve these specific things? How can you solve such complex problems by relying on you alone, or by relying on a few of us alone?"

John Dewey put down the coffee cup in his hand and smiled.

"Your Majesty, education itself is for the long-term future of a country, perhaps a hundred years or even further away. Therefore, we should not require the correction of the education pronunciation in a very short time, nor do we have to expect to completely change the culture of the country in a very short time." Dewey said, "Many times, laying a good foundation and setting a good direction for later generations is also a great thing of great merit."

Zheng Yu was slightly suffocated... Unexpectedly, this American actually made up for himself. But thinking about it, I seem to be a little used to teaching others recently, and doing things too smoothly. It is inevitable that I have become a little anxious and over-worked in everything.

Indeed, education is a century-old plan and cannot be done for a while, so it can be done step by step.

He thought about it and smiled from the bottom of his heart: "You are right."

"However, this does not mean that everything can only go with the flow." Dewey continued... "I have only put forward some ideas here, and how to build the entire education system step by step depends on the wisdom and efforts of more people."

Zheng Yu's heart moved: "Then what you mean is..."

"I have written a book... specifically about educational ideas. The school team has finished and is being sent to the print." Dewey said, "Look at whether it can attract the attention of colleagues in the education industry... As long as more colleagues are included and work together, this system will become more and more perfect, richer, and more specific."

"I am also planning to allow my students and I to experiment with new education in the Imperial University affiliated schools," Dewey said. "But this may involve some funding and some issues in education policy. You know, the main goal of primary and secondary education is examinations at present, and the same is true for parents......... If it is for the examination alone, new education may not be much better than traditional education."

Zheng Yu pondered for a while and shook his head gently.

Dewey asked somewhat disappointedly: "Are you worried?"

"John, I don't think your suggestions can solve the problem." Zheng Yu said with a smile. "Education reform...especially in a country like China, it is almost impossible to promote it entirely by relying on the practice of a few academic elites. As you said, education is based on society...and in China, the most important force on society is the government."

"Whether it is extensive discussion and research, experiment or promotion, the government will give full support." Zheng Yu, who had made up his mind, spoke, and Dewey was also surprised. "If your book is convenient, I will read it first when I go back and have a few education experts. Let's first discuss and discuss it together to see if it can be supplemented. In the next step, the Empire will coordinate a group of university education experts to form the Empire Education Reform Commission. I personally contribute to conduct research and arrange promotion. The government's education funds will also allocate special funds..."

"I think this operation requires government support, but it is not appropriate to use the government as the main body. You are right. Education itself cannot add too much political lottery. The main task of the government is to pay money, build the school infrastructure and improve the basic conditions. Others still have to be dominated by the education industry themselves. The government is just paying for money... It is better to establish a third-party specialized agency from the education industry to promote it in the form of an education center..."

"The training of teachers is the key, so Imperial University Philosophy and Normal College, Imperial Normal University and Beijing Normal University are pilot projects. First, experiments on new teaching methods are carried out in the normal system. In addition, the Imperial Education Talent Introduction Plan will give you a batch of 1,000 places, and you are responsible for introducing talents that meet the requirements of new education... You don't have to worry about the matter of collective efforts. I will support this matter, you will take the lead, and the government will be responsible for mobilizing resources from the education community and fully cooperate with your research and practice..."

"As for experimental schools, from primary school to high school, and even kindergartens, there are at least twelve schools at each level...... In terms of examinations, the existing system will be adjusted soon. In the future, each university will adopt a separate admission system. In addition to setting the score line according to the national unified examination scores as the primary election, for students who pass the line, the school will review the resume, interview, and evaluation committee system comprehensive assessment to determine whether to admit it......... In the following junior and high school entrance examinations, comprehensive assessment and moral integrity assessment will also be gradually added... In the empire, the future of examination results is of course very important, and the results of daily results will also become an important reference, as well as personal experiences and social activities......"

"Reform must be carried out step by step, but it also needs a timetable. I do things and cannot be simply equivalent to academic research." Zheng Yu smiled. "In ten years, I hope to have a complete education system, which has been tested and tested, and has promotional value. Within twenty years, new education will be promoted nationwide, covering at least 50% of junior and secondary schools and 60% of universities."

Dewey looked at the serious-looking emperor and wanted to say "impossible", but somehow he just couldn't say it.

Now he was inexplicably infected by some emotion, and even felt the blood in his blood vessels boiling. He knew how difficult it was, but a voice in his mind repeatedly told him: This is a good opportunity... The supreme ruler of a country will take out all the resources he can provide, mobilize the greatest strength to carry out such a great change with the greatest enthusiasm and the greatest strength... You brought the fire of enlightenment to the East, you are their Moses!

Dewey's body trembled slightly, and finally he bowed in despair: "This is my honor, Your Majesty."!
Chapter completed!