Coquettish Rebirth

It is naturally impossible for Murdoch to have any opinion on such a decision of Jia Hongjian, because formulating strategies according to the exact market conditions is the real attitude of doing things!

Jia Hongjian began to have a deep understanding of the four giants in the United States that produce compulsory education textbooks for primary and secondary schools. The more he knew about him, the more he discovered the things in the American textbooks... Sincerely, it can make many people in China who don’t know the situation in the United States The sweet dream is shattered!Why do you say that?Because when the textbooks in the United States were compiled, it was really a foolish attitude!How to say?First of all, the syllabus of each state in the United States is different from that in China.That's why there are various versions of textbooks in China, such as the Jiangsu version, the People's Education version and the Shanghai version.In China, because some textbooks are compiled by public publishing houses, and each province is in charge of its own stuff, no one thought of encroaching on the territory of other houses, so in the end, this is an ending of specialization in the art industry .

But it is different in the United States, because the market in the United States is relatively small and more market-oriented, so it is definitely not enough for the last state to support only one textbook publisher!So everyone works across states, and it can even be said that everyone is a national textbook publisher. Under such a situation, each publisher is responsible for the textbooks of almost all states in the country. How do they get it?It is absolutely impossible for them to obtain a separate textbook for each state according to the teaching plan requirements of each state. The cost is too high and it is absolutely not in line with the characteristics of capitalist mass production!What is capitalist mass production?Then it has to be made the same as what comes out of the production line, and it needs to be mass-produced!If a set of textbooks can meet the requirements of every state in the country.How good is that?In this way, textbooks do not need to be revised in any way, and a large number of printings can be used nationwide. How good is this?In this way, the cost is relatively reduced, and the profit is relatively increased!

But the problem is that the teaching plan requirements of each state are different, just like the difference between the Jiangsu Education Board and the People’s Education Board, and the progress of the two sides is also different. How can it be possible for everyone to use it?The so-called difficult to adjust, this is for sure!Under such a situation, American publishers are clever.What do you call Xiaoshui?Cleverness is mixing up everyone's requests.Regardless of taste!That's right.Some people want to eat sweet, some want to eat salty, some want to eat spicy, how can one dish have so many flavors at the same time?Mix it up!As for whether it is delicious or not.Is that important?If the last person to eat is the one who ordered.That's better.Because everyone will find that the requirements of this thing are far from what they need.

But the problem is that the person who "orders" and "eats" in the field of textbooks is not the same person!Who is this "ordering"?It is a government official, but who is "eating"?It's a student!So what has become of this matter?It became a textbook that included the main points of various teaching plans from all over the world, and because there were too many various points.It is impossible to go deep, and in the end, all the teaching plan standards have been met, but it has only been met!It just turned into the simplest hodgepodge!All the state governments in the United States only care about whether the textbooks submitted for review meet the main points of the teaching plans stipulated by their own states, not whether they exceed too much, and whether they will teach too much and make students not good at anything in the end. They in spite of!

That in itself already sounds a bit lazy?And this is just the beginning!This kind of thing may also exist in China, but there is a kind of thing that is far more powerful in the United States than in China-the interests of various minorities and special ethnic groups!How to say?To put it simply, an application problem in a math book is assumed to be done by Xiao Ming.Such a name for Xiao Ming, "Xiao Ming", should be chosen without any suspicion of racial discrimination, but at the same time, it should not be too racially chauvinistic.What does it mean?Using "Xiao Ming" as an example, if the work Xiao Ming does is more like that of a slave, and the name "Xiao Ming" seems to be a typical black name... Think about it, you will know that you are in big trouble!

Then, can't the name "Xiao Ming" in all the titles be a strong ethnic name?If all the names are white names, are black people trying to reflect the neglect of their existence?Should Native Americans also express why there is no "Xiao Ming" of Native Americans?Is this really troublesome?Then this is still a better thing to do!The real trouble is something else!Like what?For example, a cowboy town like Texas, a place that still believes in the existence of God very conservatively.Although about half of the people in the United States still believe in the existence of God, Texas is definitely the stronghold.In such a state of Texas, there is actually a collective request to delete all content about the theory of evolution from the textbooks in Texas!

Evolution!Darwin's theory of evolution is going to be deleted from the textbooks by a group in Texas!Why?Because in their view, such a theory of evolution is just a "hypothesis"!Just a theory with no proven success!Such a theory should not take the place of creationism!So either delete all the content of the theory of evolution, or there must be a theory of creation if there is a theory of evolution, so that students have the opportunity to know that all creatures in the world may also be made by God!If this kind of thing happened in China, all kinds of angry parents would have to tie the members of this group to wooden pillars and burn them to death!This is hindering children from receiving science education!The creation of human beings by the Chinese Nuwa is just a myth and legend, and it has not been written in textbooks!It is not written in the textbook that human beings are transformed from apes, and next to it is written "Maybe Nuwa was also made of mud"!

Then, do you think that just a theory of evolution is enough?It's early!All kinds of silly x groups in Texas have the right to make their own demands!So some media that beautify the South said that the American textbooks about slavery, especially the fact that the civil war between the South and the North was for slavery, portrayed slavery too bloody!In fact, there are many slave owners who are very enlightened and even treat slaves very well!You can't just talk about the bad side of slavery, and you can't talk about it being so bloody.How bad is it to scare kids?Wouldn't it be nice to say more about the tender side of slavery?In addition, some groups pointed to the illustrations in the textbooks depicting a scene of a woman wearing a work suit working in a company, saying that this thing is too objectified for women!The appearance of women in the workplace is to brainwash students. In fact, women should also have a kind of "family values". This can brainwash girls.Let the girls obediently take the children to clean up the house at home!

In terms of sex education, there are also ultra-conservative groups in the United States that are even more conservative than the old school in China-they say that the pictures of male and female genitalia, breasts, etc. and anatomical structures in sex education textbooks are too obscene.It should be completely deleted, and they even said that sex should not be taught in schools at all, because these things will teach students bad!Is this messy?Can the textbooks produced according to the opinions of these uncles still teach children knowledge?The whole thing has become to meet the requirements of the uncles.What can students learn?It turned out to be funny because Texas has a large population.There are many students.So Texas is actually the second largest textbook market state in the United States.At the same time, because there are many right-wing and strange groups in Texas, if the textbooks in Texas can meet the difficulties of these groups and the right-wing, then it will definitely not cause trouble in other states.So this Texas textbook is often promoted as a national model textbook!Isn't this nonsense?

When Jia Hongjian understood to such a level, he was really glad that he was not born in the United States, especially not in Texas, otherwise he would really want to commit suicide looking at this kind of textbook!And I'm also glad that he doesn't need to compile textbooks for these states in the future-all these things can be given to Murdoch and the others, which is really great!Otherwise, if Jia Hongjian is allowed to preside over the compilation of these textbooks, Jia Hongjian will really die!With so many messy requirements, all of them had to be satisfied, and the final product was like a hodgepodge of messy flavors. Jia Hongjian absolutely didn't want to admit that it was his own product!On the other hand, the deeper he understands, the more he sneers at the field of American textbooks!

Why do you say that?Because according to the comments in the "Textbook Newsletter", a newspaper in the education industry in the United States in March this year, 3% of the textbooks for compulsory education in the United States are substandard products!It can even be said that 75% of the textbooks are written incomprehensible!The names of some famous scholars are hung on the cover, and the name of the first author is written.But in fact, such a well-known scholar gave such a textbook a suggestion at most, maybe he paid some money to attend a 75-hour conference, and then never touched anything related to this textbook again!As a result, this textbook can still have his name on it!What is this for?It's just a gimmick!

In such a situation, if all the money is given to well-known scholars, then the editors will have less money. In the end, it is very likely that a group of people who do not understand such a subject will write and edit textbooks-they just put the former Get over several years of textbooks, revise and revise them, and then slightly modify some content according to the content of the new era, gather together the requirements of various uncles, ensure that no one is angry, and at the same time achieve the points stipulated in the teaching plan, then no Must be able to make sure that other things don't go wrong - there was a 90th grade girl in Florida in the early 7's who had trouble with her homework and had to go to her father, who discovered that the homework problem misrepresented a scientific law .Later, he was a little worried about his daughter's textbook. After looking through the textbook carefully, he found 34 mistakes in the same book.

When he found the principal of the school, the principal verified the so-called mistakes carefully against the textbook, and said angrily: "If a student makes the same number of mistakes in a test paper, he must fail! The result is in a textbook There are so many mistakes? How can students learn?".Similarly, in the mid-90s, academics in California found errors throughout the textbook selection process during the textbook selection process.There are as many as 2 errors in a 0-page math textbook!In this way, these textbooks are also fully used throughout the United States!Is this funny? (To be continued..)