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Chapter 118 The First Dark Forest Strike
Crisis Year 46, 2053 AD.
There are 159 years left until the water droplet reaches Earth.
The five ministers of Earth International have already changed twice.
Unlike the PDC era, the five ministers are now not only representatives of the country, but also have administrative power to control their respective departments.
However, their rights are also very limited, confined to the internal affairs of a single department. Any interference in other departments will be seen as a provocation against the international democratic system of the Earth, and is an absolutely unacceptable political error.
In addition, Lin Xuan has been intentionally sowing discord between their various departments, so these department heads can basically be rotated every 5 years.
At least... that's the case for most ministers.
But the Minister of Education and Culture is an exception; in 15 years, there have been almost 18 different Ministers of Education and Culture.
After the SuperDream Database ceased large-scale use, public opposition grew stronger and stronger.
"Why make us use this traditional learning method when there are faster ways to learn?"
"A conspiracy! This is a conspiracy! It's the capitalists pulling the strings behind the scenes. Lin Xuan's Dream World threatened someone's interests, that's why it was banned! That must be it!"
"Does anyone really believe that Lin Xuan actively restricted the use of Mewtwo? If he wasn't being pressured by someone above him, how could he possibly restrict the use of Mewtwo?"
"Speechless, family members. I miss Zisha so much. Can't this stupid basic education just die? We are so far behind the Trisolarans, yet they still restrict their own people's learning. Are these high-ranking officials all ETO members?"
Amidst such jeers, the first Minister of Education, Shimoi Tsutsuhisa, was forced to step down after serving less than a year in office, followed by the second... and then the third.
It wasn't until the 17th minister stepped down and the 18th minister took office that the curse of "Minister of Education and Culture never serving more than 2 years" was finally broken.
The first thing she did after taking office was to reform the education system.
The system of school district housing was abolished, the middle school entrance examination system was abolished, the school system was shortened, the education content was streamlined, and the content of the college entrance examination was changed to a proportional system.
This is another upgrade to the new college entrance examination system. All candidates will be exposed to 10 subjects simultaneously, starting from elementary school: Chinese, Mathematics, English, Politics, History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Computer Science.
In junior high school, the curriculum will be integrated. Chinese, English, politics, history and geography will be combined into humanities, and mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and life skills will be combined into science. The reason why geography is classified as a science subject is that geography is no longer limited to the things on Earth, but also includes a lot of astronomical knowledge.
After the end of the third year of junior high school, all students need to choose the courses they will take to prepare for the college entrance examination.
The number of subjects that can be selected is 1 to 5. The fewer subjects selected, the greater the percentage of the score for each subject in the college entrance examination.
For example, if you choose only physics, your final score in the college entrance examination will be determined by the total score of that physics course.
If you choose 5 courses, then each course will account for 20%.
After making their choices, students will begin their three years of high school in very different ways, depending on their course selections. The learning style in high school will be closer to that of university courses.
These selected courses are called "required courses," and the remaining unselected courses are called "elective courses."
Elective courses will allow students to directly download other people's existing memories from the Dream World, saving a lot of study time.
However, required courses must be completed independently, because elective courses are not included in the final college entrance examination score.
It is clear that this represents a fundamental change in educational philosophy.
In the past, education pursued the all-round development of students. People always felt that there was no harm in learning more, so all sorts of random course content were added to it.
Furthermore, the intense competition among college entrance examination candidates has led to a chaotic situation regarding educational content.
Modern education emphasizes quality and refinement.
We should save where we can and refine what we can, so that everyone can maximize the value of their learning abilities in the shortest amount of time.
After all, everyone has different strengths in different subjects. If you force someone to learn all of them, wouldn't that be just torture?
What kind of nonsense is this "barrel theory"? The idea that the amount of water a barrel can hold depends on the shortest stump is utter rubbish. Human brains aren't meant to hold water.
After the new education reform, the direction of education is more inclined towards the ideas of Dewey's "Pragmatic Pedagogy".
Humanity doesn't have many years left, and there's no time to waste on redundant knowledge.
The benefits of doing so were quickly reflected at the societal level.
In just 15 years, a large number of scientists and artists have emerged.
Once the burden of "all-round development" is removed, people make rapid progress in their areas of expertise.
Through a series of chain reactions, many of the technical challenges that people had previously faced in the development of aerospace were overcome one by one.
Anti-gravity mimicry environment technology, ecological recycling technology, long-distance wireless power supply technology...
If the Sophon hadn't locked down the limits of science, human development would have been much faster.
Meanwhile, Dr. Ding Yi finally succeeded in building a reactor using cold fusion technology.
The 18th Minister of Education who caused all these changes was none other than Luo Congmin, a doctoral graduate.
After graduating with her doctorate, Luo Congmin declined the offer to stay at the university to teach. After all, she was the only one in her field at the moment. The only thing she could do if she stayed would probably be to issue Lin Xuan his undergraduate diploma, which had been delayed for almost 40 years. Nothing else would be of any real significance.
So she went into politics, working her way up from the Education Bureau to the Education Department to the Ministry of Education, and eventually ran for and became the 18th Minister of Education and Culture of Earth International.
At first, there were actually some people who opposed her taking the stage. After all, Luo Congmin was a rebellious girl by nature. She was the nominal younger sister of Lin Xuan, the inventor of the Super Dream World, but she was also the initiator of the Super Dream World boycott movement.
Many people worry that once she takes office, she will completely shut down the application of the Super Dream World, which would be tantamount to helping Lin Xuan cut off the benefits she provides to Earth International.
However, Luo Congmin made it clear that he only disapproved of the misuse of this technology, but would not completely resist it. After all, one needs to look at things dialectically. The Dream World plays a vital role in the scientific research of various universities, and its usefulness cannot be completely denied.
But she looked down on those who thought the Dream World could make them omniscient and omnipotent.
"Do you think you know everything?"
"Okay, then I'll ask you a few questions, and you go to the Dream World to find the corresponding answers for me."
"If Nezha, who has three heads and six arms, were to suffer a stroke, would each head be individually thrombosed, or would all three be thrombosed together?"
Why is a freezer a box, but a refrigerator a cabinet?
"If a person punches himself to death, is he considered strong or weak?"
Luo Congmin continued her steady performance, leaving everyone speechless. They never dreamed that this girl's questions would be so tricky.
From then on, no one claimed to be omniscient and omnipotent anymore.
In the 156th year of the Crisis Era, 146 years have passed since Luo Ji cast the spell.
Unbeknownst to all humanity, the star 187J3X1, 49.5 light-years from Earth, is about to face an unprecedented Dark Forest attack.