What is the function of building a new school?

The decadent school education system in the late Qing Dynasty has declined, and the trained people can no longer meet the needs of society. After the First Opium War, China opened to the outside world. Lin Zexu, Wei Yuan and other people of insight began to realize that the western powers had powerful ships and guns, so they put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners". During the Second Opium War, officials of the Qing government, represented by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo, personally felt the advanced and powerful western powers. They think that ships and telegrams are fast; The essence of military equipment and machinery is a hundred times stronger; Wherever the shells go, they are invincible, land and water are connected, restrictions are few, and they are once in a thousand years. [5] Therefore, only by learning the skills of western countries can foreigners be subdued. Especially after the Second Opium War, foreigners flooded into China's trading ports, and exchanges between China and foreign countries became increasingly frequent, which made the Qing government in urgent need of a large number of new westernization talents, and it was impossible for the old feudal education to cultivate such new modern talents. Therefore, the problem of talents is very prominent, and the voice of learning advanced western technology and education and reforming feudal education system is growing. In addition, during the Westernization Movement, a number of modern military industries and civilian industries were established, and a large number of talents in modern science and technology, military technology and diplomacy were urgently needed. Therefore, a new school should be established.