한문교육의 정상화를 위한 한 방안

Abstract

Metropolitan and Provincial Offices of Education announced to hold a public middle school teachers qualification exam on June 24th, 2007. This exam is specially organized for so-called "Unemployed Testee Commission". In the first place, it was planned to add 500 teachers in 2006 and 2007, respectively. If testee fail to meet requested level, the testee would be disqualified, and the authorities confirmed there would be no more special legislation even though requested 1000 slots were not filled. However, now that they fail to add 1000 teachers as expected, the Ministry of Education and Human Resources tries to hold a special exam just for the unemployed with a crafty logic. The annual qualification exam was a custom. And now we have semiannual tests, offending against the custom of nationally certified tests, and supporting benefits of some designated persons. Moreover, it is extremely unreasonable that students who have not majored in Classical Chinese apply for Classical Chinese teacher qualification test after only several months of supplementary education. Having no responses, fundamental self-reflection is required at individual and group or society level. For normalizing Classical Chinese education in middle and highschool, the most crucial thing of all is that good-talented personnel need to be in the front line of education. Classical Chinese societies and individuals thereof should endeavor their best to make pre-teachers be equipped with sufficient capability. Also they should cope with education policies with more concern and interest. If Classical Chinese education in middle and highschool does not settle down on the right track, Chinese classics in Korea will never have a bright future. Upon agreement with this, the authorities must cooperate with Society of Korean Classical Chinese Education to face abnormality in decision making.