(1) Shi Jing Wentong Library is a foreign language school specializing in training foreign language interpreters, and it is the earliest new-style government-run school in China. At first, there was only an English library. Later, French library, Russian library, German library and Oriental library were added. 1866 added an arithmetic library, which marked that Wentong Library began to become a comprehensive school. In addition, Shi Jing Wentong Museum has added many natural science and practical technology disciplines, which are interrelated.
(2) Foreign languages rank first in the courses of Wentong Museum of Shi Jing University. It is stipulated that foreign languages and foreign languages are the most important courses in the library, and foreign languages and foreign languages are fluent before you can learn other arts. Later, courses were added, and the Confucian Mathematics Museum included foreign languages, mathematics, chemistry, public international law, medicine, physiology, astronomy and physics. In addition, China Confucian classics are consistent throughout.
(3) The school curriculum plan focuses on the study of foreign languages and natural science courses. The first three years focus on foreign language learning, and the last five years focus on mastering scientific and technological knowledge. There are no traditional subjects such as the Four Books and the Five Classics. Since the opening of the library, the translation of western books has always been a top priority, first translated by foreign teachers, and then assisted or self-translated by students. Shi Jing Wentong Museum was an important place for China to translate western language books before the Reform Movement of 1898, with a translation room, a library and an observatory.
(4) Shi Jing Wentong Museum not only attaches importance to cultivating students' traditional feudal moral habits, but also instills colonial ideas into students. For example, in the course "Public Law of Nations" taught by foreign teachers, there is a kind of robber logic, which preaches the oppression of powerful countries on weak countries, and imperialists also anesthetize students with religion. Foreign teachers talk freely about Christ to students in class and after class, and promote their "Christian civilization".
(5) Wentong Museum is controlled by foreign forces in school management. Most of the school funds are allocated by the customs, and the customs is in charge of Hurd, an Englishman from the Customs and Taxation Department. Hurd is fully responsible for the school's funds and the employment of principals and teachers. The power to manage the school gradually fell into the hands of foreigners, with foreign teachers accounting for the total number of teachers and foreign teachers accounting for the majority.
(6) The Wentong Museum in Shi Jing is both feudal and colonial, which is the product of the combination of the Qing government and foreign capitalism in education. The Wentong Museum and a number of Westernization schools that appeared after it were the beginning of semi-colonial and semi-feudal education in China. It not only has a new form of running a school, but also has added a series of natural science courses after it evolved from a foreign language school to a comprehensive school. Science education has been formally incorporated into the education system of China, and education has taken an important step forward. Westernization schools such as Shi Jing Wentong Museum occupy an important position in the history of educational development.