Chapter 1632: Vocational Middle School

In the past, the teaching of such technical trades was entirely a matter of a master taking on apprentices, teaching them hand-in-hand; how much one could learn, and how far one could progress, depended entirely on how much the master taught, and as for the improvement of technique, that required much practice on one's own afterward.

This mode of teaching was, of course, not problematic; Huaxia had already relied on this method to cultivate many technical personnel, and those second and third-generation technical workers were all cultivated through this mode, so it was verified.

However, its disadvantage lay in the fact that a master could at most take on three or four apprentices, and he could not manage any more than that, which lowered the quality of teaching; furthermore, there were no regulations on the extent to which an apprentice should be taught or how much should be taught, so if a master was dissatisfied with an apprentice, or was relatively biased, there might be an apprentice who finished their apprenticeship in two years, while another might foolishly follow for four or five years without learning anything.

Currently, Huaxia is still in a period of large-scale expansion, or rather, Huaxia has always been in such a state of large-scale expansion, never having had a relatively calm or leisurely time, and it is always lacking technical personnel.

Therefore, the appearance of schools is necessary; a few teachers can teach a hundred or so students, and the teaching progress is unified, and the content taught is also unified, which can guarantee that a batch of qualified Primary Artisans can be produced in batches in the shortest possible time.

Among them, for majors like civil engineering and Weaving Department, if one wants their profession to develop faster and better, then it is necessary to start professional instruction in school, beginning with the basic theory to explain to the students.

Once the basic theory is solid, when they encounter problems at work, they can find solutions by thinking for themselves, and can even bring these encountered problems to school for the teachers there to research and explore; this is what is called a research topic, and once they figure it out, then the various technological developments and progress of Huaxia can be faster.

Especially in the textile industry, although textiles have looked lukewarm, in reality, textiles and related industries have had the most new inventions in these past few years.

Weaving looks like the mutual interlacing of warp and weft threads, but different weaving methods will produce different effects, producing different fabrics and displaying different pattern effects.

Furthermore, the Embroidery and dyeing technologies that have already appeared are all pushing the progress of the Huaxia textile industry, while other tribes are still using their most ordinary weaving methods.

Huaxia is even already researching the jacquard loom; the creativity of those women, to tell the truth, is not low at all; the jacquard loom already has a theoretical foundation now, but the specific production process is a bit complicated because the mechanical theory of this era is still quite backward, and it is a bit difficult to make a machine that can coordinate well.

Their current idea is to design the pattern first, that is, which thread should go where and when to press it over, just like writing a piece of code.

After thinking it through, in order to allow everyone to learn it simply and be able to produce it quickly, they use paper cards with holes punched in them, where each hole position corresponds to the position of a thread; with a long piece of cardstock, a pattern is woven out, and then it is just repeated, but it is still in the design stage now, this is just a theory, and wanting to put it into practice will probably take a long time.

Then there are nursing and Medicine, these two are specifically prepared for those girls, otherwise, what could they do after graduating at nine years old? Their fate for this life would basically be living in the woodshed, then doing a few years of labor for the family, farming for a few years, and when they reach fourteen, their parents would impatiently marry them off.

But after this Middle School is built, it can be said that not only can they live to adulthood under the support of the Huaxia government, but they can also learn some professional skills, and Huaxia is just short of this type of person.

For the nursing major, graduation means becoming a nurse, which is still assisting the doctor; of course, this is for this era, they do not need too much medical knowledge, but they are still considered professional personnel, and many places need them.

Then there is Medicine, but this Medicine is only responsible for filling prescriptions at the Pharmacy, or even from the process of planting herbs to processing herbs, but they mostly do the work of filling prescriptions, because things like planting and searching for herbs are the responsibility of those with a botany major who graduated from university.

Although they all study botany, after graduation, their directions are different; some engage in the cultivation of grain Wax Seed, some in the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, and another kind is the searching and cultivation of medicinal herbs.

Because this major is not yet perfect and the knowledge content is not enough, there is only one botany major; perhaps in the future, they will separate, with agriculture being agriculture, botany being botany, and Medicine being Medicine.

However, compared to studying for another three years and being able to work upon graduation, going to high school seems to have no appeal, because it takes another three years, and after three years, it is not 100% certain that one can get into university; if one drops out of high school to learn a trade, one will be three years behind others.

But Baifeng must have already patched the hole; those who want to be officials and high-level personnel must take the path from high school to university, screening out the smartest people; those who graduate from Middle School can find employment, but they engage in work with less room for growth and are labor-intensive jobs, with relatively less room for advancement.

Besides these, the Weicheng and Suiren City under construction must also, of course, reserve space for education and medical care.

Weicheng is not yet urgent because no one lives there now; one can let people move there after the foundation is built, but Suiren City is different; currently, the population in Suiren City and its surroundings is over twenty thousand, which is quite dense, and because of the construction of Suiren City, the population is still concentrating there.

While Suiren City is under construction, the reclamation of farmland has not stopped; now Suiren City already has a considerable area of farmland and has already begun farming.

However, these lands are all public; after Suiren City is built, towns and Village will be divided in the surrounding area immediately, and at that time, they will be allowed to move there on their own, and then carry out reclamation and planting; farmland can also be private, and the tax policy is quite good.

These current public farmlands are for the construction of Suiren City, to reduce the consumption of grain transport, and also to teach those people of the Suiren clan in advance how they should farm.

A portion of the land reclaimed now will later become the fief of Baoxi, and the grain grown on it will be his.

A portion will remain public land, as relying solely on taxes is certainly not enough, so public land must exist; the last bit will be distributed to those Resident, but there is no rush for now, because Suiren City is still under construction, and how much of that farmland can be reclaimed is still unknown.