After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 251 What's with all this 4+4 and 8+8 stuff? Social classes are hard to cross, so let's shatter them!
Anything involving children becomes extremely serious.

If we also consider children's education—the hope that their children will become outstanding individuals is a common expectation of almost every parent.

All of this combined will create a situation that even Hao Cheng couldn't have predicted, judging from the scene.

To be honest, Hao Cheng is also a father, but he doesn't have much empathy for this.

Even before that, when the three of them lived in a rented one-bedroom apartment, Hao Cheng's approach to raising his daughter was quite different from that of other children.

We don't enroll our children in any tutoring classes or extracurricular activities they don't want to learn.

This is not just about money and expenses. In fact, Xiao Zhenzhen is growing up no worse than any of her peers, and is even more outstanding than most of them.

In other words, what kind of nonsense is it that a child under six years old can learn more than a dozen extracurricular classes? What kind of person can that possibly produce?

In Hao Cheng's educational philosophy, the most important thing for children under the age of six is ​​to develop their sense of right and wrong, followed by their character and self-motivation, and only then should they learn what they need to learn.

Once you've achieved the first two things, you won't need to worry about learning anything else.

Most children nowadays are spoiled until they are three years old. If they cry, they have to have everything they want. If they make a fuss, everything else has to be their priority.

Then after the age of three, they start teaching a whole bunch of things like early childhood English, early childhood language, early childhood programming, early childhood math, etc. Just thinking about it is terrifying, it's a design that sends chills down your spine.

Seeing the parents' enthusiasm, even their agitation, Hao Cheng couldn't help but sigh: Education shouldn't be like this.

This was also the first time Hao Cheng had to examine whether it was appropriate to apply this technology to students, especially younger students.

Technically, Hao Cheng was quite certain that there were no problems.

However, if a ten-year-old child already has a knowledge base that surpasses even that of current master's and doctoral students, is that really a good thing?

Knowledge, ability, and mindset are actually three separate things.

Hao Cheng pursed his lips, sighed, and said with a hint of helplessness, "The indoctrination of information is nothing to adults, because they have already formed their own worldview and values, at least their sense of right and wrong."

"However, children are different; they need to experience and understand more things for themselves. Talent without virtue is not excellence, and ability without maturity is not maturity. Therefore, the starting age for using the new product is at least sixteen years old. Moreover, they must pass a mental development test; otherwise, they should be at least eighteen years old."

"Oh? Is that so!" Many people understood, but were still disappointed.

Hao Cheng continued, "Starting with a sense of right and wrong, shaping a sound cognitive system for children is more important than learning knowledge."

"Mr. Hao, we know you're right. Now, those born in the 2000s, and even those born in 2002, 2003, and 2004, are already parents. We know better than anyone else what education is like now, and we know better than our parents' generation what kind of education a child should receive."

"However, we are not isolated individuals. That's how society is now. If you don't get involved, someone else will, and what they take away is your resources. So, just knowing is useless; the conditions don't allow it either!"

Ordinary people in society have been divided into two factions: those who choose to "lie flat" and those who seek to climb the social ladder.

But is it easy to achieve upward social mobility?

Hearing these words, Hao Cheng was speechless and could only shake his head, because there were many things he could change, and many things he could not change.

In many people's eyes, Baiju Technology is pretty impressive, and with Hao Cheng's status, he should have successfully crossed social classes, right?
From a wealth perspective, it certainly is, and relatively easy to achieve.

However, when it comes to status, it depends on the situation—let alone crossing social classes, there are some social classes where even getting a glimpse of someone isn't easy for Hao Cheng.

"Let me tell you a story." This part wasn't originally in the plan for the press conference, and Hao Cheng had never talked about it in any public setting before, because he hadn't initially considered it a big deal. But now it seemed he had to give them a wake-up call:

"After the New Year, Baiju Technology has been actively collaborating with many medical institutions, right? Before that, there was a project that was looking for partners. As you know, Baiju Technology has very high requirements for its projects."

"However, as you all know, Baiju Technology has very high requirements, which are not the same as the general public's perception of 'high.' It's not like you're highly qualified just because you graduated with a PhD from a prestigious university. It's not like that. We have our own set of evaluation standards."

It's still unclear what Hao Cheng is going to say, but what he's saying now is something everyone already knows: Baiju Technology just hired a student with only a high school diploma last month.

"None of these are the key points. The key point is that there is a project leader who is said to be an academician's student and a PhD from a top medical school in Beijing. His abilities are praised to an extreme degree."

"Some people even recommended me to meet them in person," Hao Cheng said with a smile. "As you all know, I'm just an idle person. Since someone invited me and made such a big fuss about it, I went to meet them."

"Guess what?"

"Huh? Judging from your tone, it doesn't sound like much! But that shouldn't be the case. Peking University has only one or two top medical schools, and a PhD, putting everything else aside, the level should be pretty good, right?"

"Haha, you're so ignorant, aren't you? As soon as Mr. Hao opened his mouth, I knew what was going on. You thought that medical doctors all had eight years of undergraduate studies and then a doctorate, right? And those who take the exams step by step have it even longer, 5+3+3, which means it takes 11 years to graduate with a doctorate."

"But have you ever heard of a PhD called 4+4?"

"4+4, isn't that still eight years? Direct PhD?"

"No, no, no! The first four years of undergraduate study in the 4+4 program are not for medicine. They include all sorts of things, such as economics, flower arranging, and paper cutting. Then you go back to medical school for another four years to become a medical doctor."

"Really? I heard someone say that if you don't study medicine as an undergraduate, then you'll never be able to study medicine in your life!"

"That's for ordinary people. As long as you have three academicians writing you recommendation letters, you can directly enter the top medical school."

"Huh?" Many people didn't believe it; it was simply unbelievable.

However, when this netizen dug up the admission brochure and the list of students and undergraduate majors published in previous years from a medical school website, everyone was speechless.

They even forgot to spit it out, they had no idea where to begin, how could such an outrageous thing happen.

Hao Cheng spoke up at the opportune moment: "As you know, Baiju Technology does not discriminate based on educational background. Let alone someone who only studied medicine for four years and obtained a doctorate, even if he only graduated from elementary school, as long as he has the ability, we will not look down on him."

“But…” “I knew there would be a but,” Hao Cheng had barely uttered the “but” when the comments section exploded. These people must have already typed out their messages and were waiting for this.

"I knew there would be a 'but,' but this thing couldn't possibly be a good thing, right?"

"What do you think? I've recently heard of cases where patients were left on the operating table after anesthesia was already administered, just because the circulating nurse glanced at his mistress. Isn't that outrageous?"

"Huh? Isn't this treating human life like dirt?"

"Yeah, recommended by three experts! That's pretty impressive!"

……

Hao Cheng had never intended to bring up the issue of academic cliques openly before. He was tough on foreign countries, but domestically, especially with those highly educated and influential people who had made significant contributions, his strategy had always been appeasement.

Although I didn't want to deal with them too much and deliberately ignored their proposal to jointly create a new evaluation system, my purpose was indeed to make Xiao Sha the leader of that evaluation system.

However, prior to today, he had never considered publicly targeting them.

Regardless of whether he learned from the powerful or not, at least as an elder, Hao Cheng was willing to give him some respect and dignity.

But there's nothing we can do; some people don't want to maintain a dignified image.

Literature, economics, and mathematics are fine if you're forming academic cliques, but medicine, can't you at least put in a little more effort? Why do you have to focus on such a highly specialized field when you could be causing trouble in other areas?

When Hao Cheng first met this type of PhD, he didn't think much of it.

However, recently a bunch of messy and outrageous things have come out, which is simply appalling.

Seeing the efforts of these parents today to overcome class barriers, he felt that this matter could no longer be handled with leniency.

Hao Cheng continued, "It seems you all know that he really isn't very skilled. Oh, let me clarify, this lack of skill is relative. Because, of course, some people will say that a medical undergraduate degree is also five years, and graduates can work in clinical settings."

"If you don't have to study public courses like political ideology or physics for four years, there's still a lot of time. You're right. Let me put it this way, if he graduates with a 4+4 degree and goes to our town's health center to treat people with fevers or colds, I think he'd be better than the doctors there."

"So, it depends on who you're comparing him to, you understand? Compared to most PhDs, he's not very good. Besides, Xiao Sha's evaluation only got him in the forties. So, it's only natural that he didn't pass."

"Why am I telling you this? You must have heard about it. After Pengcheng University first adopted it, no other institution followed suit."

"The discourse on education is still in the hands of a few, at least when it comes to top-tier resources. This is why many parents just said that we must have exams, and that everyone else is doing this and that."

"But I want to say that the opportunity for change has arrived." Hao Cheng no longer hesitated and said directly, "Now, we have Xiao Sha!"

“I never thought about disrupting the existing system; I wanted to make progressive optimizations and upgrades based on the existing foundation. However, the current situation is so bad that I feel that starting from scratch would be easier than improving upon the existing system.”

Hao Cheng considers himself a radical because he is indeed very radical in many things. For example, regarding the scientific research evaluation system, he never considered compromising with anyone and insisted on taking the route of innovative evaluation.

However, he is too gentle in his approach. For example, when he wants to achieve something, he thinks about slowly eroding it step by step.

But today, he was on the scene, calling out Xiao Sha: "Xiao Sha, Xiao Sha, the evaluation of innovative research related to Baiju Technology and its three levels of cooperative enterprises (A, B, and C) is open to the public starting today."

"From this moment on, Baiju Technology's evaluation criteria for talent will be derived from a combination of Xiaosha's evaluation index and innovative research index."

"Going forward, any project undertaken by Baiju Technology will only consider enterprises and institutions that recognize Xiaosha's innovative evaluation approach. Any project that still uses the traditional paper evaluation system will be rejected outright."

"Projects that have already started will be handled according to the previous rules."

……

With a deafening roar, many people's world collapsed!
Hao Cheng's few words carried significant weight. The most crucial point was actually the last sentence: Baiju Technology's projects only recognize Xiao Sha's innovative research evaluation system; if you don't have it, it's a veto.

This means that any organization or company that wants to cooperate with Baiju Technology will, at the very least, have to pursue two parallel paths.

……

On the other side, Linzhou University.

"Has Baiju Technology gone mad? Openly forming cliques?" The speaker was an academician stationed at Linzhou University. His mission was to stop Linzhou University from following Pengcheng University in doing things, as this was the most crucial university.

“Academician Gao, please,” the president of Linzhou University gestured for him to leave. “I have pushed myself to the limit. I cannot give you any more time now. I hope you can understand.”

"I……"

"Don't bother with 'I don't ...

After saying that, the president ignored the so-called Academician Gao and instead issued an order: "Publish our experience of learning from Pengcheng University's dual-track system and the pilot results of the chip laboratory. Expand the implementation to the entire university, effective immediately."

Although Linzhou University has not responded, they have not been idle behind the scenes.

The day after Pengcheng University announced the introduction of the Xiaosha evaluation system, they sent a team to Pengcheng to conduct an investigation. They even prepared various plans and regulations so that they could release them to the public immediately in case of any situation—such as today's situation.

"What a shrewd person!" Hao Cheng received a reminder from Xiao Sha the moment Linzhou University announced its plan, and he exclaimed, though it was unclear whether it was a compliment or sarcasm.

At this moment, Hao Cheng said one last thing on the spot: "So, do as I say, first cultivate your child's sense of right and wrong and self-motivation. Xiao Sha will protect you and help you move forward."

"Oh, by the way, don't use the term 'transcending social class' anymore. I don't like it. Transcending social class means the social class still exists, understand what I mean? What kind of skill is it to transcend social class? If you're so capable, go and transcend technology with Xiao Sha!"
"What about 4+4, 8+8? Social classes are hard to cross, so let's shatter them!"

"Good!" Someone shouted "Good!" and then the scene went wild. One "Good!" after another rang out instantly, forming a chain reaction that spread from the center of the battle at a certain speed, like dominoes, to every corner of Pengcheng.

(End of this chapter)