Chapter 1430 Investigation

After listening to Quintilian's explanation, Qiao An felt a little surprised while being relieved.

Only two years after the Far East became independent, it has already established a nationwide primary and secondary education system, among which primary education is compulsory. Is this possible?

Joan doesn't know much about the popularization of education in the Old World. As far as he is familiar with the two major colonies of the New World—the Alfheim region and the Midgard region—the enrollment rate of young people is very low, let alone compulsory education. Education, the literacy population in rural areas does not exceed one-fifth.

For example, children from farmers' families like Qiao An rarely have the opportunity to go to middle school, and even rarer to receive higher education.

In the New World, including Midgard University and Joann’s alma mater, Leiden College, both private and public schools will set up high tuition thresholds to exclude most children from low-income families from college. College students were either the sons of aristocrats or officials, or from wealthy families such as planters, factory owners, and bankers, and at last were the children of middle-class families such as lawyers and doctors.

It is precisely because of the rare opportunity to receive education that Qiao An was surprised by the national education policy vigorously promoted by the Far East government.

A year ago, he would never have believed that a country that had only been independent for two years would still have the power to implement "compulsory education" under the circumstances of heavy blockades at home and abroad. Kim's empty promise.

However, since he personally went to the Far East this summer to collect petrified biological samples, Joan's impression of this country across the sea has changed drastically.

From Gudi Village to Beihai Bay, what he saw and heard along the way refreshed his old concepts countless times.

Joan's personal experience can testify that the living standard of people in the Far East is much higher than the average level in the New World. In the Far East, there are no private plantations stretching over tens of thousands of acres, but in rural communes and state-owned farms, no one is forced to sell their freedom for slavery. At the very least, workers can be guaranteed to have enough food and clothing—as well as life, which is more luxurious than food and clothing. basic dignity.

Under such a premise, the promotion of compulsory education may not be just empty talk.

Qiao An was very interested in this topic, and asked Quintilian a lot about it, and then learned that the compulsory education plan formulated by the Far East government was actually closely related to rural reform.

For example, Peter, the resident pastor that Joan met during his travels in Gudi Village, also undertakes an important mission, which is to run the village-run primary school and teach basic skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic to local rural children.

Rural pastors and elementary school teachers like Peter, there are hundreds of them in various villages and towns in the Far East. These selfless and dedicated clergymen jointly laid the foundation of the compulsory education system in the Far East.

At first, when Quintilian proposed to visit Midgard University, Joan was a little worried that the school would not allow these "rebels" from his home country to enter the campus, but it turned out that he was too worried.

Hailaer told him privately that the school had been instructed by high-level officials and would not prevent Kuntilian and his party from visiting the campus, and would provide convenience secretly.

Joan didn't ask who she meant by the "high level". Although Mr. Adams has a lot of energy, he still can't affect the university campus. Joan guessed that Sir Custis probably already knew about the visit of the Far East delegation and made corresponding arrangements.

This Sergeant who is seriously ill is very low-key, but those who know the inside story will never dare to underestimate the power in his hands-the chairman of the board of directors of Midgard University is the most inconspicuous of Sir Custis's many titles one item.

The more he learned about the post-independence Far East, the more Joan became fond of this heretical country where the rebellion started. He happily accompanied Kun Tiliang and his party to visit the university campus, and introduced them to the campus facilities, the division of departments and majors, and the student management system.

Quintilian was particularly interested in the most distinctive "credit system" of Midgard University. When eating in the school cafeteria at noon, he dragged Joan to discuss this topic a lot.

Joan still seemed somewhat cautious in front of strangers. However, regarding the questions raised by Quintilian, such as the advantages and disadvantages of the "credit system", he told the truth without hesitation based on his own personal experience. Take a look at these insights he offers.

In the next two days, from September 29th to 30th, the Far East delegation led by Quintilian visited the business district of Midgard City, focusing on several large commercial banks in Financial Street that are also engaged in credit business, as well as securities companies. and futures exchanges.

Joan didn't know much about business and finance, so he couldn't provide Mr. Quintilian with any valuable advice during the two-day inspection, but Hailaer was more active and showed extraordinary business sense. The young owner of the firm, "Miss Money Fan".

On the day when the delegation visited the stock exchange, Joan specially greeted the instructor. He originally wanted to introduce this professor, who has recently been addicted to stock speculation, to meet visitors from the Far East. Let me introduce the current market trend of Magic Crystal Futures.

Weird though.

When Professor Moriarty first learned that Joan asked him to come out to receive friends, he seemed quite enthusiastic, and he was very happy that his lonely student had the opportunity to meet foreign friends.

But when Joan revealed that the visitor was a famous lawyer and politician from Beihai Bay, who is currently the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Kolas in the Far East, Professor Moriarty immediately changed his face, and hesitantly said that he couldn't get away, and it was inconvenient to come out to entertain him in person. Distinguished guests from the Far East.

This too rigid turning point made Joan have to suspect that the mentor had a ghost in his heart, so he directly asked him if he had any grievances with Fabius Quintilian.

Under his repeated questioning, Professor Moriarty had no choice but to tell the truth.

"Three years ago, before I could find a teaching position at Midgard University, I had to travel around to find sponsors to support my academic research."

"One of the patrons who generously donated to me was Kraken, the pirate queen who was very famous in the North Gulf area at that time."

"I accepted Ms. Kraken's kind invitation and lived in her territory 'Ghost Island' for half a year. During this period, I completed a research topic on 'Half-Golem', and later related papers were published in "Arcana Communications" superior."

"The North Sea Federation to which Quintilian belonged, including the later Kolas Kingdom, happened to belong to the hostile camp with my patron, Ms. Kraken."

"Just after I finished my research and left Giant Demon Island, I heard a bad news - Giant Demon Island was captured by the fleet of the North Sea Federation, and Ms. Kraken was also defeated and died in the duel with Far East Prince Roland Kolas. "