Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

Chapter 401 European conservatives who oppose reform

On June 1, 1868, Dutch Minister of Education Jeremy Harmon, on behalf of the Dutch government, officially announced that the Netherlands would enter universal compulsory secondary education, and secondary education was determined to be three years.

This move by the Netherlands surprised many people.

You must know that the Netherlands only began to advocate the universalization of primary education in 1862. Now, in less than 8 years, it has begun to promote the next stage of education. Obviously, by doing this, the Netherlands seems to have completed primary education?

This is unbelievable to all countries. You must know that Britain and France asked the Netherlands to universalize primary education within the country around 1863. Now it has not universalized primary education in half of the places. Other countries are even worse, like Italy. Spain and Portugal only started to promote primary education last year.

In this case, the Netherlands actually started the next stage?

This is quite incredible for many countries.

Jeremy Harmon, the Dutch Minister of Education, declared that after the popularization of primary and secondary education in the Netherlands, higher education in the Netherlands will accelerate the pace of development and will make great progress in contributing to social development.

In the past 10 years after 1857, the number of colleges and universities has increased, and the enrollment rate of higher education has also increased. The Netherlands has learned and exchanged with various European universities that value academics, established university research institutes, and specialized in academic research.

In addition, many colleges funded by the Dutch government quickly trained a large number of specialized talents, providing intellectual support for the development of industry and agriculture. This kind of school focuses more on practicality, uses new educational methods, and cultivates specialized talents. It is precisely because of this that many poor students are studying, and some private schools have grown up.

Therefore, the Netherlands has also seen the trend of popularizing universities earlier. As the Dutch provinces continue to pay more attention to and provide assistance to higher education, the quality of higher education in the Netherlands has been greatly improved.

At this time, the educational concepts and practices in the Netherlands changed and developed. Before William IV crossed over in 1857, Dutch education followed the conservative European educational ideas. In order to adapt to the Dutch economy, industrial revolution, and the social status quo of urban and rural changes, A new educational theory promoted by William IV gained widespread acceptance.

William IV's new theory eliminated the old education model and encouraged scientific education methods for children. William IV therefore became the leader of this movement, and this idea also became the creation of his future generation in this era. The core idea of ​​the education system.

Naturally, William IV would not take action personally. He chose to introduce Jeremy Harmon, the Secretary of State for Education.

Secretary of Education Jeremy Harmon was an outstanding progressive thinker in Europe at that time. As a pragmatic educator, he believed that school is a small society and the prototype of today's society. Therefore, children's education should be based on practice. To adapt to the development of society, schools, as a special environment, should continuously socialize children's behaviors and thoughts.

He advocates that everything should be child-centered, starting from children's nature, respecting children's individuality, and promoting children's development.

The most important thing is that he is more inclined to make education consistent with social needs and urban development, laying the foundation for children to grow better in a democratic society.

The essence of teaching is set according to the characteristics of children. Children can learn from activities that are truly educational and interesting, thereby improving learning efficiency and achieving self-growth. Therefore, Education Secretary Jeremy Harmon passed The concept of "time learning", with the help of William IV, the Netherlands quickly reformed and abandoned the rote education model.

"Jeremy Harmon's Thoughts" adapted to the needs of social change, criticized traditional European teaching, took the lead in modern teaching, and changed the knowledge-centered learning model of passive learning.

As the Minister of Education of the Netherlands, he even opposed the "teacher-centered" concept, making it easier for students to accept knowledge, accelerating the popularization of knowledge, improving students' learning motivation, getting rid of the rigid class atmosphere, increasing the fun of learning, and making education more adaptable. It has improved the development of Dutch society and is more in line with the needs of the development of Dutch capitalism.

But Jeremy Harmon's reforms were fine in the Netherlands, because under the strength of William IV, the Netherlands was relatively calm. However, his reforms were not successful in other countries in Europe, especially in the Catholic areas of southern Europe and the east. The Orthodox Christian area has been besieged by many conservatives. These conservatives believe that his education method violates the original model because children's cognition is not enough to fully understand what they are learning. The child-centered view And the practice is even more fanciful.

However, despite this, the educational theories and ideas of the Dutch Minister Jeremy Harmon played an irreplaceable role in the educational reform in Europe and America, causing a hot discussion, especially his The Dutch theory turned out to be fruitful in the Netherlands.

Although his thoughts have been constantly refuted and criticized, his educational theories and practices have provided many rich and constructive revelations and practices for Dutch education, leaving an indelible mark on the history of education in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Europe.

At least no one denies that Education Secretary Jeremy Harmon will be the greatest educator in the Netherlands and one of the most famous people in the history of European education.

On June 3, 1868, the Kingdom of Greece and the United Kingdom announced that the 21-year-old Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's unofficial secretary, would be engaged to the 18-year-old Crown Prince Frederic of the Kingdom of Greece on September 1, and the engagement would take place on January 10 next year. The wedding was held on the same day.

After the news came out, the faces of many countries around the Mediterranean between the two countries changed slightly.

The Kingdom of Greece has always been a weak presence in front of the major powers in the Mediterranean, and it is also a buffer zone for the major powers. Because of this, no country will be overly hostile to Greece, in order to prevent Greece from falling to the other side.

Moreover, William III was the former king of the Netherlands, and today William IV is his eldest son.

Under such circumstances, Greece actually chose this time to move closer to the United Kingdom, which caused the surrounding countries, the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy, to speculate whether it contained some ulterior secret.

With the subsequent in-depth intelligence provided by various countries, we actually learned that the person in charge of promoting the marriage between the two countries was actually William IV of the Kingdom of the Netherlands?

Many people are more likely to twitch their eyelids. William IV has never been a peaceful leader in Europe. Every move he makes will cause varying degrees of public opinion and frenzy in Europe, and even more negative opinions will arise.

However, not to mention these politicians, the Rothschilds, the first family in Europe who are fighting with the Dutch East India Company, the largest company in the Netherlands, are also keeping a close eye on William IV.

Because they have never underestimated any enemy, not to mention that the current enemy is the King of the Netherlands who is the most capable of tormenting in Europe.