Education in Jingdao

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Education in Jingdao is focused on raising children as useful citizens for the empire. Once finished with their education all students are expected to:

  • Be able to find employment in the profession they learned.
  • Be able to serve as a rifleman in the Jingdaoese Armed Forces.
  • Be able to run a clean and upstanding household.

Educational policy is coordinated by the Secretariat of Education of the Ministry of Truth in cooperation with many other government agencies and the United Jingdaoese Corporation.

In Jingdao, most schools are boarding schools. Students are usually enrolled in a school that is in another province than where there family lives. This is intentional as the Educational Ministry seeks to eliminate regional cultural differences in the empire. Students are usually allowed to visit their families for two weeks every year during summer holidays. Foreign children who have been adopted by the Jingdaoese Empire under the Zhengbing Programme as infants are unable to visit their parents, who they usually do not know. A wide range of summer camps is available for them.


Elementary education

Between the ages of four to ten, children attend schools called the Zuichu Dao, which is Jingdaoese for "the First Path". On these schools children are trained in the worship of the emperor, reading, writing and arithmetic and housekeeping. This school has six grades and students pass through these grades if they pass the exams at the end of each year. In the larger communities, the students in each grade are divided into faster and slower learners after the second year. In the final year of Zuichu Dao, students are interviewed and tested by officials from the Educational Ministry to determine their abilities and interests and see what secondary education is necessary to give them the opportunity to live a fulfilling life that is as beneficial to the empire as possible.


Secondary education

After the age of ten and until they reach the age of eighteen, all healthy children are called into the Xingjunxue, which is Jingdaoese for "Learn to March". Students attend these schools for one day a week. Here they learn basic military skills like marching, marksmanship and bayonetting. Officials from the Jingdaoese armed forces regularly observe drills and will select particularly able students for a career in the military.

On four other days, students attend courses in the profession they have been selected for by the Educational Ministry. All students will also follow general courses like mathematics, science and virtue ethics courses. In the case that a student is trained for an academic level vocation, the course can last over ten years. All students start working in the profession they chose from the second month of their education. Traditionally the first task they get is cleaning the working place. Depending on the field of study this can mean the student does an internship for one day in the week, or will work three days and only go to school to learn the general courses one day in the week.


University

Those with promising careers or high scores in nationwide tests are often pushed to enter the imperial examinations: these are required to become a government official and join the civil service. The curriculum is both based on mathematics, scholastic arts (music, arithmetic, writing, and knowledge of the rites in both public and private life) and traditional militaristic studies.