Chapter 756: Miss Gothic Is in Trouble (Part 1)

Victor, Schiller and Anna have always been worried about vocational education in Gotham.

Victor is because he really likes teaching and educating people, Schiller wants to improve the overall education level of Gotham residents, and Anna thinks that students from vocational education schools can provide Gotham University with better students, rather than recruiting a group of desperate illiterates every year.

Due to the special geographical location of Gotham University, it is almost difficult to recruit good students from big cities. The high-quality students on the entire East Coast either enter Ivy League schools or go to other universities in the metropolis. Almost no one will risk their lives to go to Gotham to study.

Those who come to Gotham to study are basically students who have no choice but to come here because they want to go to college, and local students who want to stay in Gotham.

It is difficult for these two types of people to have high talents and qualities. Out-of-town students generally come from small seaside towns like Blüdhaven. Since they can't go to universities in surrounding big cities, they can only take the risk to come to Gotham. Students from such places have poor foundations due to the poor local education level, and it is very difficult to teach them.

Not to mention the local students in Gotham. The local students in Gotham are generally divided into two categories. One category is really good at studying, but because they don't want to leave their hometown, they didn't take the exam to go to other places.

However, these students are the most orthodox native residents of Gotham. They have all the good qualities of Gotham citizens. Therefore, although they are talented, they are very difficult to discipline. Their minds are not on studying at all. As long as they don't use their high IQ to commit crimes, it's a blessing.

Another type of local students are the descendants of gangsters who are similar to Evans. The gang leaders don't want their children to learn any knowledge from school. They just think the title of college students is better, so they send them to gild.

There are also good students like Evans, but the number is too small, and most of their energy is focused on running the family business. They come to school just for the sake of going through the motions and it is impossible for them to study seriously.

Such a student source composition makes it difficult for Gotham University to rank among the top universities on the East Coast. To put it bluntly, it is basically at the bottom. It is only because the overall education level on the East Coast is not bad that it can barely rank in the United States.

In order to improve this situation, some Gotham University professors who do not plan to change jobs, led by Schiller, plan to start with basic education.

However, it is impossible to provide compulsory education in Gotham. There is no soil for compulsory education and universal education here. If you want more people to receive education, you can only lure them with benefits. In other words, you must let them learn skills and learn things that can be rewarded in a very short time before they can enter the school.

For this reason, Schiller and others have long formulated a plan for vocational education.

However, the opening of vocational education schools has encountered considerable resistance. Since you lure them with benefits, you will inevitably be trapped by benefits. Too many people want to intervene in education, want teachers and students to use them, and want schools to teach what they want to teach.

But if they really succeed, everything will return to the starting point in the end, and there is no way to achieve the goal of getting more people on the road of systematic education.

Therefore, this vocational education school must be independent of all forces, and it is not easy to do this.

However, Schiller has a ready-made point that can be used for leverage, that is, Gotham University itself.

For some reasons, now this place has become his territory. All the gangs in Gotham know that no matter what happens, they cannot enter this university and disturb the students here.

If the students here do not complete their homework on time because of their reasons, something terrible will happen.

Since Schiller became a professor at Gotham University, this has become a tacit understanding among the Gotham gangs. In most cases, Gotham University is a piece of pure land in Gotham City, which can really provide a good learning atmosphere.

In this case, it is better to expand the territory of Gotham University and directly incorporate the vocational education school into the education system of Gotham University as a preparatory course for Gotham University.

In this way, more talented children can be selected from the civilian class to enter the university to study, instead of relying only on those rare geniuses and rich second-generations who want to gild.

Moreover, students of vocational education who pass the exams and enter the university will acquire a kind of learning inertia, which can well correct the rough thinking of Gotham citizens, let them think about problems with more logical thinking, and then influence their next generation.

In addition, even if they do not take the university entrance examination and only graduate from the preparatory course, they can master a skill that can make a living, which will increase the income of these people, so that they can provide better conditions for their offspring, including educational conditions.

In a series of long-term education reform plans, the first generation is actually just a test product, or a blood-making machine. In essence, it is to screen out those more rational learners and let their offspring gradually occupy the middle class of Gotham, so that it will become easier to carry out top-down reforms.

After the plan for Gotham Vocational and Technical College was finalized, Victor had been running the formalities, but because Mayor Roy was in cahoots with them and the state legislature really couldn't control them, it took almost no effort to approve the site, funds, and materials.

Previously, Lex Luthor donated a new laboratory building to Gotham University, but due to the short construction period, more than half of it had not been completed, only one building in the first phase was completed, and the vocational education college was placed in this new building.

Gotham University is not short of funds, so the hardware and software here are good, and there is a large open space for actual operation. Ignoring the fact that the dormitory and classroom are only two floors apart, this is simply a perfect vocational education school.

After the school opened, the next step was to recruit students. Victor originally wanted to not accept those people who were forced in by the gangs, but Schiller refuted his point of view.

Schiller believed that this time, the gangs would not squeeze their own children into this vocational education school.

Most gang leaders are short-sighted. They only think that they have made enough money in their lifetime, so why should their children work so hard? Isn't it better to just eat, drink and have fun on the golden mountain of their own home?

The composition of students' majors in Gotham University also illustrates this point.

Most of the gangsters' children choose majors with nice names. Art majors are the most popular majors, and among the arts, fine arts, art criticism, etc., which sound very classy, ​​are even more popular.

Most of the people sent by the gangs to vocational education schools are middle-level personnel with more flexible brains in the gangs. They do not need to patrol and maintain the gang's territory every day like the lower-level personnel. They have enough free time and the highest technical requirements.

In an area, the management of tap water, the arrangement of electricity, the operation of cold storage, and the order of freight logistics all need this group of people to arrange and manage. And precisely because they do not have such ability, the gangs are more eager to send them to school and let them study well.

After reaching an agreement on this issue, Victor also agreed to the gangs sending students, but the dispatch was also conditional. Paying tuition fees was essential. At the same time, as long as the gangs sent students in, they must ensure the safety of the school buses and trucks, and provide the most basic material support for vocational education schools.

This process is actually the most time-consuming, because it is necessary to deal with various gangs, involving their own territory and interests, and no one is willing to give in. After a long negotiation, the enrollment list was finalized.

When seeing this list, Victor Schiller and Anna both found a special name on it-Tracy Gode.

"What's going on? Doesn't the Goth family own a shipyard? They are also a well-known family in Gotham. Why would Mrs. Goth send her daughter to a vocational school?" Anna obviously knew the situation in Gotham very well. She frowned and put her finger on her chin and said, "A delicate lady like this should either learn a musical instrument or learn art. Why would Mrs. Goth let her learn to repair cars?"

Victor also shook his head, looking a little puzzled. Schiller didn't know what Mrs. Goth was going to do.

He speculated, and then said: "Some time ago, I met them in the theater. At that time, Detective Gordon told me that the Goth family and the Witte family were discussing an engagement."

"If that's the case, then Miss Goth wouldn't finish college before getting married, but would get married directly after graduating from the church middle school."

"Now it seems that there may be some problems with the engagement. The Goth family may not want to get engaged to the Witte family. However, breaking off the engagement requires a reason. As long as you send your daughter to college, it's impossible for little Witte to wait until Miss Goth finishes college before marrying her, right? In this way, you can legitimately escape the engagement. . "

"That makes sense." Anna and Victor nodded, and she continued, "This can also explain why Mrs. Goethe couldn't wait until the university officially opened in September, and she had to send Miss Goethe away in a hurry now, because if she waited until September, the wedding might have been over."

"And, I guess, Miss Goethe must have had an affair with the boy from the Werther family." Victor's imagination was richer, and he said, "It's not good for a mother to forcibly separate them. She can only send her daughter to school. As long as they are separated, maybe they will forget about it after a few months."

The three nodded, feeling that their speculation was reasonable.

But at this time, Victor was a little troubled. He said, "A young lady from a rich family went to the third class that teaches car repair technology. Let's not talk about whether she can learn the technology. Just those truck tires, she shouldn't be able to move them, right?"

Schiller snorted coldly and said, "You have to move them even if you can't. Learning is about overcoming all difficulties. If you can't move the tires, don't move them. If you can't remove the screws, don't remove them. If you can't recite the book, don't recite it. Then what do you need a teacher for?"

"That's right. I know these young ladies too well. Don't look at their appearance. They can't carry anything on their shoulders or hands. They will fall down if a gust of wind blows over them. But if you let them go shopping, they can walk for more than ten hours without stopping." Anna curled her lips and said.

"I don't care what her purpose is." Schiller knocked on the table and said, "As long as you enter the school, you have to study hard and achieve something before you can graduate. This is the same for everyone, including Wayne. Does Goth think that she is better than Wayne?"

Anna and Victor looked at each other, and both of them showed a gloating smile. Obviously, they had heard that Bruce Wayne was almost delayed by Schiller because of insufficient credits.

Schiller picked up his cane, stood up and said, "Tomorrow is the first day of the vocational education school. I will attend the whole class. If anyone dares not to study hard, I will go and talk to his boss in person."

Looking at Schiller's sneer, Victor and Anna shuddered.

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