The Complex Predicament that the American Universities Now Faces in the Racial Slurs

On how moral responsibilities starts from the heads of these universities, the presidents, the deans of these, schools, then extend down to the students…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The president of University of Pennsylvania, Magill, in her testimonies, painted over the anti-Sematic speeches, causing the debates, which led to her resignation, showed, the complex struggle of how the universities are caught between protecting the students and freedom of speech, her resignation is due to the public’s unsettlement of the rising anti-Sematic air, along with the hostility that’s in the school’s getting ignored by the management of the university.

Magill, and the presidents of Harvard, M.I.T. recently testified at the American Congress, on the management of the university campuses, and the anti-Sematic slurs.  The Republican congressmen inquired, “is the call of Holocaust a violation of the behavioral principle of the university?  The presidents responded using the legal wordings, that there needed to be physical actions from the racial slurs, for it to be, punishable.

And their responses had caused anger in the donors, governors, senators, and the Jewish communities too, especially toward Magill, due to her lenience toward anti-Sematic believes, the school lost a hundred million dollars in donations from the sponsors, the board of trustees are now looking for a new president for U of Pennsylvania, and, Magill had, resigned from her position in a few short, day’s time.

The core of the problem, is that a lot of the Jewish students now feel, unsafe, and the groups in the school called out the anti-Jews mottos, the professors were advocating genocide, and the constant coming on of death threats, making the Jewish students hide.  The critics blamed the higher up officials of the school for turning away the students who had been, discriminated against, to prioritize the needs of the persecutors, instead of the, victims.

The culture of these university campuses reminded me of Germany in 1930, at the time, anti-Semitism had been normalized in the younger generations of people, then, turned into the ideology of which the country is, governed under, allowing the rising up of Hitler.  Legally, the offensive speech are protected, unless there’s physical threats, the schools would need to weigh closely, if they are to punish the students who’d spoken these, racial, slurs.  But, to balance between the delicate relationship of preventing harassment and civic freedom, we would need to consider it in the means of the moment which these instances had, occurred, and the universities are now, admitting, that they’d, failed in the balancing of this matter.

The focal point of the presidents’ arguments lies in the protecting of the First Amendment rights, other than the physical threats, the freedom of speech is, protected.  But, in doing so, the presidents seem to have no empathy of the Jewish students who are, in the midst of this atmosphere.

So, what lessons can we learn, from this?  First, the schools had yet to resolve the issues of tolerance, safety, and the various ideologies that existed; the presidents’ resigning, may satisfy those who’d, criticized the behaviors, the handling of this matter, needed the weighing in of the complexity of the debates and issues.  Secondly, education should act as an prevention in discrimination, the universities need to teach the students of the lessons in history, and the values of humanitarianism.  Thirdly, with the empathies and the cohesiveness of the local communities, this is way more important, than the written-in-stone policies, empathy is what will get us past, the hatred.

This debate, showed just how difficult it is, to balance between the welfare of the students, and freedom of speech, and whether or not this can be, successful, it relies on how to reach that delicate state of balance between freedom and safety, stereotypes and tolerance.  Through courage and wisdom, the universities can help overcome the hatred.

And this showed, the importance of the roles of these higher ed facilities, in that it’s a place, where the right sorts of values should be, instilled into, the students’ minds, but, the key here, is that you would need a just, a morally responsible, president, and board of trustees, because if these heads can’t even act morally responsible, then, how would the professors, the deans, even the students who operate under them, have the right kinds of examples to look up to, to act right?

The Civics Courses Had Long Ago, Done with the Moral Responsibilities Contents

How the DICTATORSHIP of the DDP and Tsai dipped into, the forum of, education, and by altering the curricula, they will be able to, groom these, next generations of students into, order-followers, who can’t decide for themselves, if what the authorities are telling them is right, or wrong, and this, is how it goes, how the government ruined the younger generations, by ruining their, moral education!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Taipei First Girls High School’s Chinese language instructor, Gui criticized the 2020 curriculum as shameless, and the head of Department of Education responded, “we’d never, given up on teaching the virtues”.  But in the civics courses of the earlier eras, after DDP took over, already got changed into the contents of how individuals fight for their own, rights, and the laws, the moral values, and character education had long been, taken, out of the textbooks.

The current contents of the civics textbooks of the high schools are mostly on the practical means of how to exercise the people’s personal freedoms, how to march the streets in protest of something, how the rights are protected by the power statuses, and, with the hidden contents of hating China, the ideologies of how it’s important, to not obey the law when it’s unjust, immoral, the textbooks only teach the students how to fight for their own, rights and privileges.

A certain edition of the textbooks mentioned how a student can sue the school for the school’s expelling the students for being truant too many times, only taught the students to fight for their own rights, but with no evaluations of the reasons of truancy, and to seek out improving oneself.  In the unit about the rights of laborers, there’s the sales pitch of how to negotiate with an awful business owner on receiving more wages, but without the traces of how the morally responsible employees and business owners should, behave.

From the selection of the committee members of the writing of the 2019 curriculum, there were the debates, plus the editors, and the reviewers of the textbooks are not at all, righteous, leading the younger generations, to ram around without thinking, and, all of these, who had, manipulated the setting up of the new curriculum are already, having their, political agendas, fulfilled.

And so, this is how the Tsai government, used the rewriting of the curriculum to devoid the country (are we still one???) of ALL morality, and that, is how an authoritarian government exercises its right to, brainwash, to control the people’s ways of thoughts, by NOT giving the younger generations the morally-sound materials to study from, thus, ruining this country’s, future generations!

Changing the Parents’ Beliefs about Education First

How the parents of this generation’s children had been educated, and the methods don’t work, not for the new curriculum reform of 2019, but we’re still, using this way to, TRAIN our own young, because we’d been, trained that way, and we can’t, SNAP out of it!  Translated…

November is mid-terms for students in the elementary schools, the children are busy studying, the parents, busying, helping them, review, and I’d heard the complaints every now and then, that the 2019 Curriculum Reform had made school worse  than ever before, because the children go to cram schools every day, too much homework, that can’t be finished on time, and the grades, don’t improve by that much either.

This sort of no-relation criticism, confuses me, if you actually read through the texts of your children, you will find, that the contents of their education, greatly exceeded how we were taught, by rote learning and cramming, there’s the children’s literature, and the essays that’s relatable in life for Chinese courses; the mathematics, step-by-step learning methods, for us, homeschoolers, so long as we are able to read two pages of texts, and with the workbooks, we can, have fun, learning math; not to mention how science is life, the social studies stemmed from the kids’ every day life, meeting the various subcultures of people in Taiwan, the geography, weather, the rivers, all the children can easily make the connections, and it’s easier for them to, remember.

Many of the criticisms for the reforms of education of 2019, maybe, it falls back on how the parents’ misinterpretations of what education is, about.

Take me for example, even though, I’d been trained under the “cram method”, I’d become, excellent exam taker, but on my final year of middle school, there were the application methods, and I’m glad to have become, a non test-taker, my classmates then, were made up of other non test-takeres, which made the classroom, very lively, and they’re all, outstanding.

illustration from UDN.com

Now, I’d helped my son learn too, and believed, that rote memorization, doing the same-type test questions won’t do, that he needed to test things out on his own, to play more, to think more too, to find his own areas of interests and get into them, that in the futures, he will surely, follow the guides, to get into the fitting major, fitting schools of his, choice.

I can understand, that the parents of elementary and middle school students are, from the exam generations, and never experienced the multifaceted learning means, and are prone to believe, “Grades mean everything”, so, the moment their young entered into elementary school, they’d sent them to cram, hoping that their children scored top three on every exams, and, as the placements of children dropped, then the parents started, worrying, and started seeking out the methods, to get the children’s grades, back up again.

My son in the fifth grade told me, that there were many classmates in his class that crammed until eight, nine in the evenings, and as they got home, they had homework to do until past ten, they’re learning for more than twelve hours per day, but can’t make the excellent grades.  I imagine, that these children are, totally, taxed out, no time to daydream, to rest, to think about what they’d learned in school, how can their brains be effective enough, to absorb what they’d learned, and memorizing the lessons?

After school, the elementary school students needed to spend three to five hours at cram schools, this didn’t happen after the 2019 curriculum reforms, but because of us, the test-taking era mom and dads, making our children learn the way we’d been, taught.  For most of us, our parents weren’t highly educated, they may only have an elementary or middle school education, or they may be high school or community college graduates; without the degrees, they’d, climbed their ways up, not everybody forces the kids to make good grades, some would recommend that the children go for a technical degree, and some parents, only signed their young up for the cram sessions right before the entrance exams.

Looking at us, with everybody being graduates of colleges or universities, we’d weathered through the cruelties of having our test scores determine our majors, or endured through the defeats of no matter how hard we’d worked, we can’t, match up to that of our own, classmates, as we’d become parents, we’d, used our best means, to set up a straight road which our own young will be able to travel, to get higher in education; in preschool, we’d sent them to learn English, as soon as they entered elementary, we’d, signed them up for the get-ahead programs, all of the subjects, are all beyond what they were learning in school; and, we would get upset, anxious, with our children’s grades going up and down, and in the end, we’d, layered the pressures of scholastic performance on our young, to the point of losing the interactions between parents and children, and we’d still, blindly believed, “we’re doing what’s best for our children.”

But, the new curriculum meant, helping the children see more possibilities, not just remembering the texts word for word, a lot of parents are now, stuck in an unimaginable work environment, with life filled up with the incomprehensible A.I., so why are we, stuck in educating our young using means of twenty, thirty years, ago?

I think, the parents, the school instructors, the owners of the cram schools are most in need of education reforms, to get away from the beliefs of “Grades are everything!”, as the textbooks are changing, hoping to keep the children’s curiosities, their senses of discoveries going, the adults also need to face the burdens of their own, means of, being educated, for instance, the lacking of instructors, how the teacher training programs, can’t catch up to the curricular reforms of 2019, how the lacking of teaching assistants to assist in the management of the classrooms, and teaching, and, if the parents can get out of the myths of grades mean everything, to see the children developing, their children’s possibilities, in the non-mathematics, non-science subjects.

The children of Taiwan didn’t get pounded by the Curricular Reform of 2019, but they’d become, too pressed by the testing system, being used as evaluation of what they’d learned, the misbeliefs of getting through the schools.  But at this very moment, there are the passionate school teachers, working very hard, to build a more fitting learning environment for the students, with the opening of the varied school entrance methods, more ways to learn for the children; the parents need to relax, to not believe what they heard, seeing how someone else’s child is in cram school, and start worrying if they’d, delayed their own children’s, learning.

What we need to worry about, is NOT watching the children well enough, to give the children their freedom to develop, based off of their special characteristics, so they could, go down the path that’s meant for them, instead of dragging, pulling, pushing the kids, into the world that we can’t begin, to imagine.

So, this is on how the parents who were raised by the cramming method, despite how the world had changed, the curriculum shifted the focuses, still forces their own young, to learn the way they’d been, taught, and this is not easy to snap out of, after all, we’d all, been raised a certain way, and look at us, we still made it, and so, we are prone, to duplicate how we’d been taught, onto our own young, despite how these methods which we were taught with, were  already, outdated, by say, decades already?  It’s the parents’ BRAINS that are in need of the upgrades here!

The Importance of Fundamentals

Without the firm foundations, how can whatever it is you built up on top, withstand the strong, winds???  And yet, nobody cares about what’s being taught at the basic levels anymore!  By the honorary professor of Chingwha University, an educator, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

We ALL know, that a desperate UPGRADE of the country’s industries are needed, because a lot of our neighboring countries’ are still, progressing by the days.  If what we produced isn’t high enough in quality, without the added values to them, then, our economy will surely, decline.  In order to get the excellent products made, we would need the excellent engineers.  I’m here to stress one thing, that we are, in need of the engineers, with all their fundamentals understood completely.

Once I’d gone to visit a tools machinery manufacturing plant, the three who’d welcomed me were all math majors.  The tools being made cared about the precisions of methods of how they’re being made, to reduce the chances of error down to next to nil.  In order to accomplish this, there would be a ton of knowledge that’s needed, and yet, this manufacturer had used mathematics, to make their machines perform the high standards work.  The country focuses on the communications industry, there are almost little number of people who’d understand that communications goes hand in hand with mathematics, but everybody knew, that the technologies of communication includes the encryption codes, and now, the encryption codes is, completely related to mathematics.  And if you’re not good in math, then, you can, never enter into the communications industry.

Another, the microscope, and the microscope works on nano measurements of the microwaves, to get things to this tiny, we rely solely on electromagnetism.  Actually, not just the engineers who’d come up with the designs for the microscopes need to have knowledge of this, even the precise productions of the chips is also related to electromagnetism.

laying down that firm foundation, so whatever you build on top will, stand firm! Photo from online

People in this country hear of semiconductor regularly, but, nobody knows, that semiconductor is closely related to chemistry.  Korea and Japan had their differences, and Japan decided to not sell the photoresist to them, this was nearly fatal to Korea.  And, there are, a ton of specialized chemicals in the production of semiconductor chips, and, all of these chemicals are being produced in the more advanced countries.

We often envied the standards of industry of the more advanced countries, and a lot of people stressed that reason why these advanced countries can have this outstanding achievement, it’s due to how the countries encouraged the workers to innovate, actually, we’d failed to note, that the more advanced countries had a ton of engineers with the deep understanding of the fundamental principles.  We can see one thing, in the advanced countries, especially in the U.S., the country kept on improving the modeling technologies.  And, the costs of these modeling programs are very high, some as high as ten million dollars N.T., and, those who’d produced these software, definitely are excellent in physics, chemistry, and mathematics too.

And therefore, I hope, that the government can focus on setting the younger generations up with the strong fundamentals.  What worries me is that the new curriculum had reduced the hours of the mandatory subjects, the Department of Education also stresses that the universities don’t need to have much of the required courses, but more of the electives.  And, if we can’t have the educated enough engineers who are excellent in the subjects of math, chemistry, physics, then, our progressions in the industries are going to be, very, slow to come.

I hope that the government knows the importance of the fundamentals, we are all, in awe at how the more advanced nations’ ability to produce those excellent grade products, but at the same time, we also need to realize, that they have, a ton of, excellent and very skilled engineers on staff.

And so, this is on how the universities aren’t giving the students the right sets of skills that will, make them into the needed building blocks of the country, but the government is still, not focusing in the right direction, and guess who will end up, suffering the most?  WE, the people, because, if the industries aren’t built up strong enough, how can we compete, with other countries?  Exactly.

The Supply & Demand of School Instructors Out of Balance, with the Department of Education, Outside the Situations

After all, it IS, the DDP, the MOST incompetent party that this god damn island had, ever seen, and now, they’d MESSED with the children’s right to get their education, and this problem will surely, snowball!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The wandering instructors are happy to know, that the instructors are in shortage this year, but this caused the number of the preparations of the instructors to decline greatly, to fight for the instructors, the private AND the public school are using an assortment of means, to illegally tie the instructors to the schools, and, although the new instructors coming into the school can help the learning platforms, but, there were, the two, hidden worries, first, the graduates from the teaching schools can’t find the set instructional positions in the future, second, the surrogate instructors, imbalanced supply and demand, will greatly affect the quality of education provided.

Looking at the Department of Education, as the HIGHEST facility of education, it’d lacked the methods of coming up with programs to train the school instructors, and they’d completely out of it, in noting how the schools had gone against the laws to hire the instructors they needed, and, this is awful for the surrogate instructors, and the trainees to become formal instructors to see.

As the imbalance of the instructors came, the schools are using all the means possible, to keep them on the staff, and the source, it’s actually, on how the professionals in the teaching realm had been held hostage by the local governments, and how the Department of Education is powerless to change this situation.  In the past, the surrogate instructors are faced with long-term structure of teacher qualifications, the unfriendly wage systems, causing a ton of the school instructors in training, to not see their futures, and started, jumping ship.

And, as the teaching groups, the legislators started supervising, and calling out, the Department of Education had, finally, amended the rules regarding, to offer continual pay for the surrogate instructors during the summer and the winter vacations, to offer the extra funding to get the local areas to have more positions open up, and there were 1,500 school instructors for hire per year in the six major cities in the elementary level, and there were many schools that had an over ten-percent acceptance rates of the instructors who’d interviewed.

But, the classrooms still needed to have the help from the surrogate instructors, for the instructors who may be on sick or maternity leave, and the Department of Education decided to tighten up the rules, it’d caused a ton of troubles for a lot of schools, and, in the minds of those who are about to graduate out of the teacher’s training programs, they’re also, worried as well.  The lacking of school instructors is like the holes in the ground, as this year, the department of education filled up all the holes, and, this may be causing the same old nightmares of the teachers going from school to school to work in the future, and the schools, in dealing with the shortages of surrogate instructors, are looking for the unqualified instructors, or that they can’t find the teaching staff members, and all of these, can greatly affect the quality of education.

What was ironic was, as the situations of reduced birthrate keeps on going, there will only be the number of students on the decline in the futures, and, there may only be the lacking of instructors, to the point of exceeding what the systems will be able to, handle.  And the policies of the Department of Education, had caused this situation to, worsen, and, as the highly prestigious employment of being school instructors become a second-choice, this is totally not a good thing for the realm of education.

And so, this is, how the DDP still lacked foresight in things, and, the department of education still runs on theory, when in the real world, it’s the applications that mattered, and the edicts the department handed down, may work well on paper, but not in the practicality means, and, there are, the instructors who are, fought over by the individual schools, and the department of education does NOTHING about it, and the newly graduated teachers out of the teacher’s colleges can’t find the formal teaching positions, because the systems already, messed up, and it all runs, together.

The Scholastic Pointed Out: English and the Mother Tongue Can’t Coexist that Easily Together

The professionals had, “spoken”, and yet, the DDP still, intended to, go ahead, with its, bullshitting policies, because “we” need to, “connect” with the rest of the English speaking world, well, why don’t we all, master CHINESE first, then, we just might be able to, master a second language???  Oh yeah, that won’t work, because the DDP is too rushed, to connect with the outside world in speaking ENGLISH, and, guess who gets, FUCKED (don’t pardon me!) up here?  You guessed it, it’s, all of them, little ones, who are still, currently eating DIRT right now, because they’re going to be, taking the CONSEQUENCES of the governments, SHITTY ideals here!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The professor of Foreign Language in N.T.U. awhile ago, started up a petition, stating how the dual-language policies are against the country’s language development’s multiple values of the country of Taiwan, that the dual-language instruction policies should be placed on hold temporarily, to start up the “multilingual Taiwan, English-Friendly” system instead, the academia believed, that the English instruction means, can’t coexist side-by-side with the mother tongue, to grow together with the mother tongue.

The assistant professor, Chou of English Department of National Taiwan Normal University stated, that English is listed as an official language by Singapore, and, although the other tongues are listed as protected under the law, and instructed in the schools, but, there are, less and less of the population who are using, the mother tongue to speak, and, if Taiwan believes, that the mother tongue can still be passed down from one generation to the next, the government is, way too naïve in thinking so.  The lecturing professor of foreign languages department of Donghai University, He also stated, that in 2018, the government assed the Language Development Act, and posed the dual-language policy by 2030, although the name is “dual-language”, but, the government is focusing on the English, to have the country use both Chinese and English together fluently, it’s, quite, unimaginable.

And, the “Dual Language Development Center” in charge of pushing forth the dual-language systems sparked up the protests; the drafts of the “keeping Taiwanese, and other mother tongues intact” got passed into law, at the same time by the Executive Department.  The Language Research Department professor, Jiang of N.T.U. suspected, that the setting up the “Dual Language Development Center” is merely an executive order of the government, with the goal that conflicts with the developing of the country’s language.

And so, this is, one more, attempt that the DDP uses, to DE-Chinese the country here, by setting up these rules of how the children here will learn strictly under English instructions (Well, where are you going to find the professional English speakers, without the weird accent to teach the young???), with the understaffed instructors, who don’t speak English without an accent, how the FUCK do you expect the younger generations will learn to speak English, without that weird, accent here?  And, what if, these young children, can’t learn English to start, and they didn’t get enough exposure of Chinese (‘cuz that was, the “official language” of this country, or so I believe!!!), then what?  Oh yeah, then, the children will all become, MUTES, and then, we will all have to learn to sign with each other, and, sign language then becomes, the “official language” of this country, under DDP’s messed up, dual-language, policies!

The Department of Education Should NOT Act as the Executioner

How, by taking these, distant-region schools off the “registries”, will only cause the gap grow, wider, and soon you will have the following: the students in the distant regions, becoming ILLITERATES, lacking a viable skill, causing the gaps between the rich and the poor to grow, wider, yet!  This just showed, how the government IS watching out for those who are, really, in need…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

In the coming on of reduction in birth rate, the enrollment of the private schools are, undergoing, a whole lot of, pressures, the notable technical high school, Gong-Dong Technical High School also got, listed, which caused great debates; the department of education had, disregarded the needs of the distant regions, only offered the stick, but not the, carrot, the way the Department of Education CUT off the support of the school, it way too, brutal.

Due to the impacts of reduced birth rate, to protect the rights of private school teachers and students, the legislature passed the amendment for the private schools to make their exits back in April of 2022.  All school that showed the cleared means of financial troubles, the qualifications of instructors not up to standards, owing the wages, a total of six thins, after the discussions, the confirmations are made, the school will be labeled, as “under counseling”; and if by two years, things hadn’t improved, the school will get, pulled, and everything will be, sold.

The problems of the private schools’ making the exits came from the prevalence of high schools and universities getting set up to operate, the government should shoulder the responsibilities thereof, but, had no plans to assist these school whatsoever; only the means of reprimands, no means of rewarding the excellence of the various schools, and once, the schools get listed, it’s a death penalty, and this was, a never-seen-before, brutality by the Department of Education.

Take Public East Technical High School for example, it was the fourth largest school in Taidong, with the apprenticeship means of training, and, trained countless competitors in carpentry, set up that standard for what technical education should be; let me mention, the makeup of the school’s students, fifty percent of native, twenty of lower economics statuses, the school carried the means of education in the distant regions, but due to the reduction of birthrate, the finances of the school started, not making it, and was listed. 

And so, this article, dissected the reasons W-H-Y, these, private schools are, having, such a, hard time, making it, the declines in birthrate, I mean, come on, who WANTS to pop their babies out, into this, way too, dangerous, and unfitting for children to live in, world?  Exactly, and, the government’s, threatening to SHUT these schools, which are, mostly located in the, distant regions, because they can’t, make the enrollment quota, is only, taking away the RIGHT of students of getting equal standards in education away, and, it still was NOT their faults that they were born, into, the distant regions, to those, families on the, lower end of the, socioeconomic, statuses, and the government is, punishing these students for it, I mean, how’s that, right???

It still, isn’t!  The only way to get this resolved, in by providing more chances of higher quality education to the students in the distant regions, as they are, the “needy”, and in, desperate need, of some government assistance, to give them, that needed “lift”, and the only way we can, overcome our circumstances is through, getting an education, and now, the government is, pulling the plugs, how’s that right???  It isn’t, but hey, that’s what the government here, is doing!  And there’s NOTHING the “voters” can do about it, because, these are the, far, far, FAR away districts, out of the government’s, “backyard”.

The LIES They’re Feeding ‘Em at, School…

And NO, it’s still NOT lunch time at the, cafeteria either, NOT yet, at, least…

This is, currently, WHAT is, happening (and yeah, it’d already happened, in some major world “powers” like the U.S., Japan, Germany???) right now.  This is, the governments’, attempts to, train the younger generations to, follow them, blindly, and, the “leaders of the future”, wouldn’t know FACT from fiction, because, that’s what they’re, feedin’ ‘em from the kindergarten to, twelfth grade!

and, this still, did NOT, happen either…

The LIES they’re, feedin’ ‘em at school, well, chapter one was originally what???  Indians (or the more “politically-correct” term would be, “native Americans”?), so what, oh yeah, the INDIANS, they GREW from the ground, like those, native species of plants?  And, as they grew and took over the land, another species (from the Mayflower???) came over, and TOOK the native “species” over, because from over there (wherever “they” are from???) there are the more “advanced” diseases that the “natives” ain’t seen before, and therefore, NO protection, and thus, the ENTIRE subspecies of this people of this land got, ERARSED!

so, he, didn’t get, ASSASSINATED!

The LIES they’re feedin’ ‘em at school, boy oh boy, am I glad, that I’m not a “part” of this younger generations of students who are being, BRAIN-WASHED to believe the lies, after all, that’s how we learn, and believe what is true and what isn’t, and, forget about a college education, because everything still started rooting away, down there, at the roots (your primary/secondary education years of K~12!), and, if the fundamentals aren’t taught and learned RIGHT, then, how the @#$% (controlling my self here!) are you supposed to learn from the mistakes of those who came before in history, and NOT make them?

And so, that’s all, the LIES they’re, feedin’ ‘em at, school, and, what’s sad is, these younger generations of innocent kiddies, they’re being, TAINTED, without even knowing that they’re not with the RIGHT FACTS of the P-A-S-T!

Truly, very, S-A-D!

But, what would I know???  I’m only still, a “kid”………

On the Matter of the Degree and Employment

How the theories and the applications, must MERGE together, for the workers to have their places to shine through, so the industries will continue to, flourish, to grow stronger, thus, making the country even, better, but, the government still could care LESS, they just want to see the results in the end, and, they don’t examine the nooks and crannies, the nuts, and the bolts, that makes this, whole machine function well, the observations, of the honorary professor of National Tsing Hua University, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

A lot of people are now, complaining that it’s the education that failed our children, to the point, that when they started working they couldn’t, handle the work assigned to them.  This reminded me of my own story.

As I earned my master’s degree, I’d gone to find work.  Found an electronics company, my job is to design the circuit boards, but I’d not done that, didn’t even know what the circuits looked like, let alone the functions.  But I was blessed with a good manager, who’d taught me everything, and with his help, soon enough, I’d, learned to design the circuits, and started making my own, experiments.  Reason why I could easily catch on was because when I was in my studies at N.T.U., I’d done well in the fundamentals of Chinese language, English, and mathematics.  As I got the basics down pat, it was quite easy, for me, to learn something, new.

What you’d learned in the schools, can’t be exact with what the industries need, because, there are, hundreds of skills that are different from each other, and, no one university can guarantee, that the students become the jacks of, all trades.  But, if the schools (both in the technical high school levels and in the universities) are able, to help the students get the fundamentals down pat, as the students graduated, they will, surely be, able to, tackle the assortments of demands made of them in employment.

And so, my first advice to the theory-application differences is to try to get the students to hone up the fundamental, the basic skills.  If the means of education is good, then, surely, the students will use what they learned, to turn the theories into application.  I had, specialized in the vacuum tubes, and if I couldn’t transfer into the transistors, then, I may have, amounted to, nothing.

But, the enterprises should also, help the fresh-out-of-college employees, so they can learn while doing.  As the head of state from way back when, Sun became the head of Taipower Company, all of the Japanese engineers, and technicians from Japan all exited, the head of state, Sun employed the EE last year students from the technical high school in Taipei, for them to start working in Taipower Company, to teach them the skills.  They only had the most fundament conceptual theories of the fields, but, Mr. Sun educated them, to help them make the great contributions to Taipower Company.  And, as the Japanese specialists exited the country, it’d not seemed to impact the electricity provisions of Taiwan at all.

Another example, I have a student, who’d often told me about his work.  He is a software engineer, the system he uses in work, I’d never heard of.  But, he’d not had much troubles in using, because, he had some more experienced coworkers who took the time, to teach him the skills.  A company should NOT be complaining constantly on how it can’t find the qualified workers, the company should look at itself, to see if, it’d, taught the skills needed to work there, to all of its, employees, that way, they will excel in the skills they are already working with.  The company that hired my student had even, spent the money to get him to be trained in the newer technologies, which all goes to show, that this company knew, how to, train the workers, and keep the workers’ skills, up to date.

Training the professionals isn’t anything easy, the schools certainly needed to make sure that the students have the fundamentals down pat, the enterprises cannot expect that the graduates go into work, with all the skills that matched their needs for the job descriptions, but they need to, make sure, that the employees start, gaining more and more skills, to up their, competitive, edges.  The students from the Taipei Skills High School must’ve, helped the former students set up the good foundations, but, it’s, also, due to Sun, the head of state then, who had the wisdoms, for these graduates to put their skills to work, where they’d, counted.

Anyways, we should know, that the quality workers, needed to come out of the school, but, the industries, also, needed to shoulder up the responsibilities to get these students who came out of the schools, excel in the, specific, skills.

And so, this is on the combination of theory AND application, the schools need to make sure that these students gained the needed skills they are required to have, to work well in these, specific skills, and the companies that hired these graduates, also needed to, put the money into, the on-the-job training programs, to get these students who came out of these majors, to have the skills they needed, to work better in the companies too, and, if one of these is missing, then, the chain that originally flowed smoothly will be, broken, and, things won’t work.

The Global Perspective of Taiwan

Uh, this god damn country does NOT even have a peripheral vision, let alone, the global, perspective here, as the DDP still, keeps on, sucking UP to the U.S. here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The new version of the tactics of N.A.T.O. for the very first time, mentioned China, and, the department of diplomatic affairs commended N.A.T.O. on “showing that wider global perspectives”.  Meaning, that for the past, this regional defense organization made up of European countries, Canada, and the U.S. didn’t perceive the Chinese threats, and Taiwan being oppressed as serious enough, that it’d lacked, that global, perspective.  This is, the countries, getting ready for war, the mindset of, boasting the importance of this country.

What’s ironic, is the members of EU diplomats called out to the country, that the Tsai government’s “dual-language country” only focused on English, which lessened the chances of Taiwan’s getting noted in the other non-English speaking nations in Europe.  And the relations of Taiwan and Europe, won’t get closer, through the English language now being set as a part of the curriculum.  What EU didn’t state was, that from the angle of education, Taiwan is, way too far from “global”, mostly, “semi-global”, to even, “limited to the U.S”.

The countries of EU worried, that in the rigidity of Tsai’s “all-English education”, in the future, Taiwan may have a lower quality of education, teaching the European languages through, English.  But, what’s so weird about, learning other European languages, through, English?

In the policies of “Dual-Language Nation”, the middle school instructors are tested on their English abilities, the Chinese instructors don’t get tested in Chinese, but in English also; the college Chinese courses also get the teachers who will “teaching in all English” for the classes.  And, the countries of European Union will soon see, that the students here will learn the subjects in science, social studies, physical education, arts and music, and even, getting counseled in, English; what’s even more, magical, is that the students will be learning CHINESE, using English too soon!

In Taiwan, U.S. is the entire world, the global perspective, equivalent to the U.S. perspectives, let alone, education must defy China as well.  The country will, toss back anything in relations to Chinese, the ancient histories, and, the European Union should not mind, that the other European languages, get, slashed by this country.

The country IS, the U.S.’s, BITCH, because, this government continued to suck up to the U.S., thinking, that we can, rely on the U.S. to help us defend ourselves if China were to have a coup d’état of this country, that’s why, the education reforms are, completely like the U.S.’s, the twelve years, grade one through twelve, and that’s, just, messed up, the government failed to consider, that what works in the States, may not work here, due to the cultural differences, the differences of population makeup too, and that’s, just how shortsighted the DDP is, still sucking UP to the U.S.