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"In addition, there are some children living on islands in the Aegean and Adriatic Sea. Due to inconvenient transportation, it is difficult to reach these places in the early promotion of compulsory education," Ikios said regretfully. .

As a Greek cultural elite, every time I think of ancient Greece, I feel infinite regret that the world-famous ancient Greek culture has been lost in the long history.

As the current president of the University of Athens, Ikios has a strong sense of mission deep in his heart to restore the glory of the University of Athens.

During the Greek city-state era two thousand years ago, Athens' educational ideas were already quite advanced, and even in the eyes of later generations, they are still not out of date.

The education in Athens during the city-state era focused not only on military training, but also on the coordinated development of body and mind, that is, the all-round development of body, intelligence, morality, and beauty.

It is precisely this kind of advanced education that has enabled Greece to breed cultural celebrities as bright as stars.

For example, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and other philosophers and thinkers of world civilization.

Even after being conquered by the ancient Roman Empire, Greek culture still played an important role in the Mediterranean, and the upper-class elites of Rome were still keen to study in Greece.

Just like the Jixia Academy in Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

It was not until later that the Roman Emperor ordered the closure of the Academy of Athens, and the light of wisdom that once illuminated the entire Mediterranean dimmed and went out.

After receiving the invitation from Constantine to serve as the executive director of the Education Foundation, Ichios immediately engaged in the sacred cause of education with full enthusiasm and the great mission of restoring Athens' former status in the intellectual community. Deep inside, it calls to him all the time.

"In the committee's preliminary plan, the courses for children in compulsory education mainly include Greek, mathematics, geometry, physical education, history, geography, music and other subjects." Ichios reported the foundation's preliminary plan to Constantine.

Constantine and Coredis had no objection to the setting of subjects.

"According to estimates, there are more than 100,000 school-age children throughout Greece, and it is necessary for these children to receive compulsory education. However, the funding of 100,000 pounds is far from the amount needed for the entire compulsory education," Coredis said. Then he said.

"The United Kingdom followed Germany in 1880 and France in 1882, and established their own compulsory education system. Compared with these Western European powers, Greece has lagged behind in time. Your Highness, it is crucial for Greece to vigorously develop education. This is It is related to the rejuvenation of the entire Greek nation. Do you think this fund can be increased?" Ichios looked at Constantine eagerly and said.

Hearing this, Constantine burst into laughter.

The two of them disliked the fact that there was too little money invested in education, and felt that Constantine did not put enough effort into developing education.

Banning allocated a total of 150,000 pounds, of which 50,000 was the royal family's return on investment over the years. Compared with the royal family's investment of more than 10 million francs, it is not known whether the money can be recovered in the year of the monkey and the horse in the month.

One hundred thousand of them have been handed over to the foundation.

The two men sang the double act together, and also made a plan to make the remaining money.

“The prosperity of a country does not depend on the strength of its treasury, nor on the magnificence of its public facilities, nor on the extravagance and glitz of its rulers; it depends on the civilized quality of its citizens, that is, on the people’s The education, the vision and character of the people. That’s where the real stakes are, where the real power is,” Ikios continued.

"Duke, Greece must not slack off in education. The government itself owes a huge foreign debt, and we cannot count on it. Duke, the royal family must strongly support our foundation," Coredis also took the opportunity to say.

"It's not impossible to give the other 50,000 pounds to you, but Ikios, you have to agree to one condition."

Constantine looked at Ichios with a serious expression.

"What conditions?" Ichios couldn't help but feel surprised when Constantine mentioned the conditions.

"I want Greek universities to increase their faculty in science and engineering and increase the number of talents they train in science and engineering," Constantine said, looking at Ikios.

The University of Athens is the first university in the entire Balkans. However, the vast majority of students in the entire university are liberal arts students, such as economics, politics, history, law, literature and other subjects.

In science, not only are there few majors, but also the number of students enrolled there is very small.

Almost all college students in this era come from wealthy families, and their family conditions are relatively affluent.

Students from such families are influenced by various aspects and prefer to choose liberal arts majors.

For example, the family is in the political arena, or the family is rich and powerful who is engaged in business.

In addition, there are objective reasons for this situation.

Due to the underdeveloped industry in Greece, even students who have studied science and engineering may not be able to find a place to use themselves.

Since Constantine specially established a foundation to help develop education, it was naturally impossible to turn a blind eye to this situation.

"The Royal Education Foundation must allocate a sum of funds to support a group of talented science and engineering students to study chemistry, physics, mathematics, metallurgy, mechanics, mathematics and other science and engineering majors," Constantine said.

"The source of these students does not have to be limited to Greece. If you can do it, your foundation can choose talented students from all over the world to study at your University of Athens."

After hearing Constantine's request, the two of them couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

In less than a moment, Ichios, who came to his senses, connected Constantine's request with his dream of reviving the influence of Athenian culture.

It cannot be said that there is absolutely no relationship between the academic performance of students studying liberal arts and whether they can achieve a career, but the correlation is indeed not great.

In contrast, for a science and engineering student, the connection between academic performance and career is undoubtedly closer.

Science and engineering departments pay more attention to students' talents, but Greece has a population of just over one million. Even if the foundation has screened out the geniuses among these people, how many are there?

Therefore, it is very necessary to recruit talents from all over the world.

"Of course, this is a long-term task. In other words, the responsibility of your Royal Education Foundation is not only to promote the development of education in Greece, but also to focus on overseas and fund some talented science and engineering talents from abroad." Constantine said seriously.

Originally, the two just wanted to get another 50,000 pounds from Constantine so that more children could go to school.

But they did not expect that the conditions proposed by Constantine left them stunned.

"But Your Highness, even if these students are trained, how do you plan to arrange them? There are not so many positions for them in Greece," Coredis asked in confusion.