"Okay, no problem. Send me your address. I'll get someone to send a Little Star to Xiao Peng."
"Thank you so much. I'll transfer the money to you right away!"
"No need. It's just a small favor. Don't treat me like an outsider."
"You must. Otherwise, I'll be taking advantage of you. I'll transfer $10,000 to you!"
Ding dong. Chen Jin received a transfer notification on WeChat. Su Yun had transferred $10,000 to him.
Chen Jin shook his head. He would not accept the money. It would automatically be returned to Su Yun after 24 hours. He was not in need of money.
…
At this moment.
There was a knock on the office door.
"Come in."
The company's vice president, Liang Ying, walked in and reported, "Mr. Chen, Expert Tang from the Ministry of Education is here. He wants to talk to us."
Chen Jin was slightly stunned. He smiled. "They finally can't hold on any longer?"
Liang Ying also smiled. "Mr. Chen, hurry up and meet Expert Tang. His face is as black as the bottom of a pot. When I walked past him, I heard him scold us for being an inhumane company. He has a lot of opinions about us."
"Hehe, opinions about us?"
Chen Jin shook his head and laughed. "Why not because of their own incompetence? You won't die if you don't seek death! If they didn't insist on messing around, how could things have come to this? "
He was speechless.
That's right.
The Ministry of Education had completely messed up.
Now, they were being scolded by a large number of students and parents. They were asking for a refund of the Department of Education's version of the Intelligent Learning Machine (Educational Machine).
Of the tens of millions of Educational Machines, 87% of the students asked for a refund.
There were also many who smashed the Educational Machine in their hands in a fit of anger.
The public opinion was turbulent and the negative comments were like a tide. The experts in charge of the Educational Machine project were disgraced and embarrassed. Their reputation was like that of a rat on the street.
How did the situation develop to this state?
Chen Jin's words were still the same: You won't die if you don't seek death.
First of all, the Knowledge Tree had been improved and adjusted by the experts. There were huge changes compared to the original version. However, this adjustment did not make the Knowledge Tree more useful. Rather, the students were complaining that it was not very useful.
"What's going on? I used the Educational Machine to do a system test. I only scored 59 points on the third-grade math test. It wasn't even a passing grade. There were a lot of weak points. Why did only two places on the knowledge tree turn red while the rest were all green? Could it be that I have mastered the basics very well? But when I clicked on the bright red dot to take a look, isn't this the knowledge that I've mastered? How could I make such a low-level mistake? "
"I realized that the knowledge tree of the Educational Machine is not accurate at all. The places that should be red are not red, and the places that should be green are not green. I haven't even seen a single yellow dot."
"It's really funny. There are a lot of knowledge points that I obviously didn't grasp well, but they are green. On the knowledge tree, there are many knowledge points for second and third graders, but there are a lot of red dots. I'm a high school student!"
"It's not working! You don't even know where your weaknesses are. What an intelligent educational machine, a retarded educational machine! "
Secondly, the learning effect was poor. There was basically no improvement.
"I've been using the educational machine for almost a month, and my monthly test score has only increased by 5 points, which means that I haven't improved at all."
"There are 5 students in my class who use the educational machine, and 4 students who use the Little Star learning machine. After the monthly test results came out, the students who used the educational machine increased by an average of 3 points, and the students who used the Little Star increased by an average of 32 points!"
"I threw away the educational machine I had after using it for half a month. It's not working! I asked my dad to spend 50,000 to buy a Little Star, and my monthly test score increased by 15 points! "
"I'm a parent of a child. I recommend everyone to buy a Little Star, even if it costs 20,000 to 30,000! Don't ever buy the educational machine provided by the school. Their knowledge tree is a knockoff, and it's not working at all. There's no 'Answers to All' function, 'and the' Answering Assistant 'function has also been removed. It's no different from the traditional learning machine. Whoever spends 5,800 on this kind of thing is a fool! "
"I want a refund, I want a refund. Hurry up and return the 5,200 that the school took!"
Not bad.
It was fine if the knowledge tree of the educational machine provided by the Ministry of Education was not working, and there was no 'Answering Assistant' function. The students could just bear with it and get over it.
But what was unbearable was that the powerful 'Answering Assistant' function had also been removed, and there was no such function.
The reason given by the experts was very sufficient — "To cultivate the students' ability to answer questions independently, to prevent over-reliance on the educational machine." The starting point of all this was for the good of the children.
"Stupid expert, you have the Dragon Saber in your hand, but you don't use it. You want us to continue using fire sticks."
"I bought the intelligent learning machine for this function, and you removed it for me?"
"I can't stand it, I want a refund immediately!"
The problem was that the school could not accept such a high percentage of requests for a refund.
The educational machine was not cheap. In the more developed provinces, the average selling price was more than 5,000; in the moderately developed provinces, the average selling price was more than 4,000; in the less developed provinces, the cheapest one was sold for 3,200.
None of them were sold for less than 3,000.
What about the poor students?
The educational machine was already so expensive, how could the poor students use it?
The Ministry of Education had also considered this problem. Therefore, every school had allocated a certain quota. Among the poor students, as long as they had good results and were hardworking, they could buy an educational machine at the poverty alleviation price of "2,000."
What if they could not even afford 2,000?
The educational machine was not a necessity for learning, and it was not like the teachers did not teach them. Without the educational machine, would the students not even have the ability to learn?
Don't make a myth out of a tool!
Learning was mainly dependent on people! Those who had the talent to learn would not be bad no matter how they learned. Relying too much on a tool would cause them to lose the ability to think independently. The disadvantages outweighed the advantages.
The entire set of theories of the experts could be said to be impeccable.
However, faced with the sudden surge of "refunds," as well as the angry reprimands and complaints from countless parents, the experts panicked and quickly thought of a solution.
…
In the conference room.
Expert Tang said with a cold face, "Boss Chen, the only solution now is to remove the 'question answering assistance' function of the Little Star learning machine and keep it the same in all aspects as the educational machine. What you are doing is crooked. You are depriving the students of their ability to learn independently. Their scores may have increased, but their ability to learn has decreased! This is a trap for the next generation. Don't be stubborn and commit a historical mistake! "
"If the students' scores have increased, doesn't that mean that their ability to learn has increased?"
Chen Jin was very surprised. "Scores are everything! This is the special feature of our current education system. Why are you experts starting to think that the students' scores are too high? Have you changed your way of thinking? "
There was a hint of sarcasm in his words.
"You —"
Expert Tang's expression was extremely ugly. "I have been deeply involved in the field of education for decades. I am an authority in this field! I know what kind of learning model is most suitable for the students of Z country. Your approach will not work. It is a crooked path that will cause endless harm sooner or later! You are a technology company. Why are you doing education? You are creating trouble for the country! Quickly do as I say and remove the question answering assistance function of the Little Star learning machine. "
"Haha."
Chen Jin shook his head. "Getting higher scores has become a crooked path. Anyway, your mouths belong to you experts. Whatever you say is right. When you meet with a problem, retreat like an ostrich. However, I will not do as you say. Even if I agree to your request, the majority of students and parents will not agree. Don't think of dragging us down with you when you meet with trouble. We are only a small company. We cannot withstand the criticism from the majority of parents. Unless the country issues a mandatory order, I will not do as you say. "
"You!"
Expert Tang was furious, but there was nothing he could do.
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