Such minister, such teacher and such education
Needless to say, the Minister of Education in Taiwan, 杜正勝, is the worse official I have ever seen in my life. I have only heard such kind of people in history book and those people all have very bad reputation and their damages to Chinese people are 罄竹難書. BTW, according to this guy, 罄竹難書 is not a phrase to describe a lot of *bad* things.
Let me just list a few of his *quotable* sayings -
1. 三隻小豬 can be a Chinese idiom, even though he himself does not know how to make a sentence out of it.
2. Microphones have so many germs that he needs to push away journalists who get close him.
3. 我沒有呼呼大睡... 我只是閉目養神... 誰聽到我呼呼啦? And there is a video clip showing him resting in his seat "safe and sound," unmistakeably unconscious.
Enough said about this guy. 所謂上樑不正下樑歪. Let me tell you a real story about our elementery teacher. Mrs. Money just went back to Taiwan with her family. Her son needs to do homework until 11 PM everyday. A lot of homework? Yes. Kids learned anything? No. Why? Here it goes.
Her son goes to a "雙語小學." In the hallway, Christmas is misspelled and nobody noticed. In tests, "white" is 白色. If you ever answer 白色的, 白的, 白, I am sorry that you will not get a point. Similarly, "老神在在" is 悠閒的樣子. If you answer "悠閒的意思", "悠閒的模樣", "悠閒的", I am sorry you will not score either. In math, 80 * 28 = 80 * 8 + 20 * 80. You cannot calculate it as 80 x 28 = 28 x 80 = 28 * 8 * 10.
Mrs. Money asked the teacher why? And the coming out of the teacher's mouth: "為了統一改考卷." I cannot believe such a rigid and stupid thing still exists in Taiwan. And don't get me wrong, this phenomenon is common in Taiwan. Most of Taiwan's teachers, I am sorry to say this, not top grade students themselves. I blame this to our stupid system. Starting from our times, only people graduated from educational institutes can teach in elementary and junior high. 非本科系的人 needs to take 教育學分 to teach. It sounds OK but you will have to look into another factor. In our times, top 50% students would not choose educational institutes when we picked our schools. And also, we simply picked our school based on test scores, not our own interests, meaning those who went to educational institutes may not have a heart at all in teaching young kids. With this kind of system going for 20 years, you can imagine the quality of teachers.
Lastly, I do believe some special professions should receive some extra benefits, such as free of tax, free insurance, etc.. Police and army, for example, belong to one type that they have to risk their lives to protect others. Teacher and special athlete belong to another type that they incubate our next generation. These people should dedicate their whole time doing their jobs without distraction. But this is not the case in Taiwan because all those people I mentioned above are not financially secure. Their minds are not focused on the jobs but rather on how to make more money. When policemen, soldiers, and teachers do not do their jobs, you can go figure what's going to happen to this country.
我為此三嘆
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Let me just list a few of his *quotable* sayings -
1. 三隻小豬 can be a Chinese idiom, even though he himself does not know how to make a sentence out of it.
2. Microphones have so many germs that he needs to push away journalists who get close him.
3. 我沒有呼呼大睡... 我只是閉目養神... 誰聽到我呼呼啦? And there is a video clip showing him resting in his seat "safe and sound," unmistakeably unconscious.
Enough said about this guy. 所謂上樑不正下樑歪. Let me tell you a real story about our elementery teacher. Mrs. Money just went back to Taiwan with her family. Her son needs to do homework until 11 PM everyday. A lot of homework? Yes. Kids learned anything? No. Why? Here it goes.
Her son goes to a "雙語小學." In the hallway, Christmas is misspelled and nobody noticed. In tests, "white" is 白色. If you ever answer 白色的, 白的, 白, I am sorry that you will not get a point. Similarly, "老神在在" is 悠閒的樣子. If you answer "悠閒的意思", "悠閒的模樣", "悠閒的", I am sorry you will not score either. In math, 80 * 28 = 80 * 8 + 20 * 80. You cannot calculate it as 80 x 28 = 28 x 80 = 28 * 8 * 10.
Mrs. Money asked the teacher why? And the coming out of the teacher's mouth: "為了統一改考卷." I cannot believe such a rigid and stupid thing still exists in Taiwan. And don't get me wrong, this phenomenon is common in Taiwan. Most of Taiwan's teachers, I am sorry to say this, not top grade students themselves. I blame this to our stupid system. Starting from our times, only people graduated from educational institutes can teach in elementary and junior high. 非本科系的人 needs to take 教育學分 to teach. It sounds OK but you will have to look into another factor. In our times, top 50% students would not choose educational institutes when we picked our schools. And also, we simply picked our school based on test scores, not our own interests, meaning those who went to educational institutes may not have a heart at all in teaching young kids. With this kind of system going for 20 years, you can imagine the quality of teachers.
Lastly, I do believe some special professions should receive some extra benefits, such as free of tax, free insurance, etc.. Police and army, for example, belong to one type that they have to risk their lives to protect others. Teacher and special athlete belong to another type that they incubate our next generation. These people should dedicate their whole time doing their jobs without distraction. But this is not the case in Taiwan because all those people I mentioned above are not financially secure. Their minds are not focused on the jobs but rather on how to make more money. When policemen, soldiers, and teachers do not do their jobs, you can go figure what's going to happen to this country.
我為此三嘆
mm
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