After discussing the navy issue, the main responsibility for its operation would fall to Archduke Ferdinand, who oversaw naval affairs, while Constantin would coordinate resources.
Ernst, meanwhile, had to preside over the government's upcoming education conference. With East Africa's first cohort of primary school students graduating, the construction of public secondary schools had also been put on the agenda.
"East Africa has now completed the universalization of basic primary education, and the first cohort of students has graduated. This is a good thing for the Kingdom. However, compared with the nations of the world, our educational system remains incomplete, especially in terms of advanced education. This means that after graduation, unless students achieve outstanding results and are selected by the state for further training, how the remaining students are to be handled is an important question," Education Minister Dekerlaf said at the meeting.
Ernst said, "Secondary education differs from primary education. It requires teachers of a higher standard, and at present we cannot fully staff such schools with qualified personnel. We may have to wait several more years. Thus, for the time being, both students and teachers will have to endure some hardship. We can first gather students together and establish boarding schools in towns or cities. At the same time, we should change the small-class system used in primary schools to large-class teaching, then switch back once teachers are no longer scarce."
This was in fact much like the situation when Ernst had attended school in the countryside in his previous life. Secondary schools existed only in townships and above; seeing one in a village was rare. After East Africa had universalized primary education, nearly every village had a primary school, but secondary schools could not possibly be as widespread as primary schools.
This was mainly Ernst's fault. In