Study On The Education Bill Of Hunan County And Township Councils In 1912-1913

During 1912 to 1913, each county in Hunan province have set up their own parliaments, this is the implementation of China's grassroots democracy and autonomy of a local practice. After the establishment of the county and township council, According to the relevant regulations,They pay attention to local affairs, protect the local interests.Education has always been its focus, the county and township council made a number of proposals related to education, to revive the basic education of Hunan. Funding for education always is the core of the county and township council discussion. The main contents of the bill including: Make full use of the available funds, expand the source of funds, Encourage social investment, Encourage private schools, Supervision of government financial allocations.To meet the needs of the local economy of talent, the county and township council has also been actively promoting the development of school education, and the Main contents including : Achieve universal primary education; support for secondary education; train local teachers, improve teachers' quality; improve the treatment of teachers and set up women's education;Due to many counties and townships in Hunan province are very remote, the school education cannot be universal acceed. In order to civilized people and consolidate the regime,they put forward many proposals for the development of social education. set Library, lecture group,instruction,training institute and free literacy classes for poor people.To realize the popularization of education.During the period of 1912-1913, the county and township Council proposed the education bill there are still shortcomings, some failed to implement, but overall promote the local development of basic education. In their efforts, the local basic education in Hunan has developed, Social education has also made some achievements. The cultural quality of the people has been promoted, and the concept of democracy has been gradually formed. It is seen that the local council has played an important role in the history. But for some reason, a series of plans and ideas or stay in the paper, or in the implementation of the discount. There are still a lot of imperfections in the local councils. In 1913 the local council lockout also shows that completely copy the western democratic constitutionalism in China doesn't work at that time. Democracy at the grassroots level is not achieved overnight, it is a gradual development process, in this process not only needs the state's institutional arrangements, but also needs the people's cooperation and support.