Greece’s Roman Road

Kemal, who returned from a visit to the tractor factory, returned to the hotel alone.

Although I only traveled in Greece for a few days, what I saw and heard made people feel a lot.

There is no doubt that Greece is now on the right path. Even as a bystander, he can feel the transformation that is taking place in this country.

Kemal's determination to join the secret organization is also more decisive. The Ottoman Empire, which is in depression, wants to change, and relying only on military is not enough.

Constantine, who came back from a trip to Congo, and Sophie attended a meeting of the Royal Educational Foundation after a two-day break to discuss the future development of the foundation.

As the entire country of Greece recovers from the war, the educational development situation in Greece is also changing rapidly.

Constantine and Sophie entered the conference room of the foundation hand in hand, but they saw Laris, the Minister of Education nominated and appointed by Alexandros.

Seeing Constantine's surprised eyes, Laris said respectfully, "I heard that the Education Foundation held a meeting to discuss the next step in the development of Greek education. I was dispatched by Prime Minister Alexandros to attend the meeting."

After the surprise, Constantine thought about it, and it was not difficult to understand the Prime Minister's intention.

The current situation in the education sector in Greece is very strange. It is different from the current education in other countries in the world. It is almost entirely controlled by the Royal Education Foundation, and the government has very little voice in the education system.

The Royal Education Foundation is a privately established foundation that operates independently according to its own charter, and the government has absolutely no influence over it.

So far, compulsory education in Greece has been run entirely by foundations.

After the government's finances gradually became rich, Prime Minister Alexandros naturally also wanted to develop in the field of education.

After the meeting, Crown Princess Sophie, as the president of the foundation, first introduced the work of the foundation to everyone.

"Last year (1904), the Royal Greek Educational Foundation received a total of 94 million drachmas, including 12 million drachmas from the Congolese fixed income, and the foundation's investment income in the Congo 4,200 drachmas. Vandrakma, including the share dividends of the Gold Mining Company, the Greek Congo Corporation and other companies. The rest is the income obtained by the foundation’s investment in Europe, such as Philip Pharmaceuticals, Greek Petroleum, etc.”

"Oh, by the way, it also includes the income from donations by social workers, 8 million drachmas." Sophie paused, took a sip of tea to moisten her throat, and waited for everyone to digest the information.

After learning that the foundation fully funded students and implemented five-year compulsory education in Greece, many rich Greeks at home and abroad have generously donated their money and are willing to sponsor the foundation's charitable deeds.

Although Laris looked calm on the surface, he was shocked inside. As a private foundation, the Education Foundation's annual income almost reached one-fifth of the Greek government's annual fiscal revenue. It is no wonder that a private organization, with its own power to sponsor the development of education throughout Greece.

"Last year, the foundation sponsored 430,000 students in compulsory education, 60,000 students in middle school, 12,000 college students, and 120 overseas students, spending a total of 87 million drachmas."

After all, there was silence in the conference room, and everyone was considering the information revealed by Crown Princess Sophie.

"His Royal Highness Crown Prince and Crown Princess, although the Royal Education Foundation is a private foundation, it is named after the royal family, and it is engaged in education that has a great impact on the country. The government cannot completely ignore it," Laris said. , gestured to the Constantines.

"So, on behalf of the government, I intend to ask some basic questions about the foundation's development of education. Crown Princess Sophie, may I ask whether the education supported by the foundation is elite education or universal education?" Laris looked at the two of Constantine. .

Elite education generally means that teachers directly screen students, determine their needs, and give education methods that meet their characteristics.

Therefore, gifted students get genius education, people with mediocre qualifications get general education, and people with low level may have almost no education.

Generally speaking, mass education means that teachers do not discriminate students and conduct homogeneous education without discrimination. Regardless of your qualifications, you are given the same education.

In other words, mass education tends to be "universal and broad"

Britain and the United States are representatives of elite education, and Germany and Japan are models of mass education.

How Greece should choose, in fact, there are traces to follow.

In modern times, the late-developing countries have succeeded in catching up with the advanced countries. There are not many such countries, that is, Germany and Japan.

Coincidentally, these two late-developing countries practice mass education in education.

At this point, Greece, which is also a late-developing country, naturally also chooses mass education.

Moreover, the total population of Greece is currently only over three million, and school-age children account for about one-tenth of the population. It is unimaginable to select a small number of students for elite education on the basis of such a small number of students.

"On this question, Greece has no choice at all. We can only implement mass education, and it is impossible to implement elite education at all," Constantine replied.

Laris nodded thoughtfully, expressing his approval of Constantine's statement.

"Since it is the implementation of mass education, the government's investment in education must be greatly increased," Laris said, taking the opportunity.

Public education treats everyone equally and does not discriminate (at least at the stage of compulsory education), so the state’s investment in education is bound to increase~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In Germany, where mass education is implemented, the expenditure of education funds is included in government expenditures occupies a considerable share.

Since Constantine himself said that Greece should implement mass education, the Minister of Education Laris took the opportunity to tell the news that the government has decided to increase investment in education, so the crown prince and his wife at least have no obvious excuse to refuse.

"At present, the only institution of higher learning in Greece is the University of Athens, which is too thin, which is far from enough."

"Prime Minister Alexandros also considered that only relying on the financial resources of the Education Foundation, after all, has limited power, so this year, he specially allocated 12 million drachmas to invest in education and jointly strengthen civic education in Greece."

"The government decided to use this money to build several new research and application universities in Greece," Laris told the crowd.

With the foundation, the royal family has an outstanding authority in the current Greek education circle. It seems that the government has also decided to increase its influence in the education circle.

"The government intends to build two new universities in Tirana and Vlora in Albania, and at the same time increase investment in the Greek Institute of Technology to make it truly a university of science and technology."

The Greek Technical Institute is currently only a vocational and technical college. Although it is developing rapidly, it is limited by investment and limited in scale. The campus is also very close to the University of Athens, and it is inconspicuous under the light of the University of Athens.

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