The words of a former chairperson of a hi-tech company here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
As the social forum of Facebook becomes the trend, a lot of students are currently, afloat, in the “Facebook ocean”, the honorary CEO of Mediatech, Tsai advised the students to log on less, to read books more, to lose the fragmented, the inconsistent pieces of information, and to embrace the wisdom that comes from the organizational kinds of information.
Tsai believed, that the students should be trained to think, to carrying that mindset of questioning everything, to pursue their own interests wholeheartedly, and wisely, manage their own time. He said, the information we receive online are fragmented and imprecise, compared to the organization in the reading books, and, by reading more books, you’d be able to, absorb these organizational information bits you will need to, and slowly, turn what is read into your own personal knowledge and wisdom too, he’d encouraged the students to read more.
The Transportation University and Mediatech announced the starting of the “Drawer Honorary Committee”, to start teaching students using technology, for example, setting up the lectures on the subjects in high school and camps, or to get the science and technology clubs in high school more active, plus the students from the university, as well as volunteers for Mediatech, with the leadership of the university professors, in the future, they’re going to go to various schools to teach and offer training opportunities, leading the high school students to get interested in developing new technologies, new products, to increase the level of interests the students will have toward the technologies.
The Drawer Honorary Committee planned to set up its subchapters in twelve primary high schools in the next three years, at the end of the year this year, they’re going to set up the subchapters at the Experimental Middle School in the Hsinchu Scientific Park, the Hsinchu High School, as well as Hsinchu All-Girls’ High School.
The Drawer Honorary Committee invited the director, Professor Wu from Transportation University, the manager of the tech department, Hsu, Tsai, the Assistant Dean from N.T.U., Chen to make appearances, and shared with the students, their own life experiences.
Tsai said, that the technological industry in Taiwan gained its reputations solely from the number of experts who came out of the science and engineering programs of the science majors, if they’re to turn over the industry, then, they will surely be needing the advancement in education of the nation’s technical education, the cultivations of the experts in the area. He hoped that students will find the directions that suited them the best, and continue being interested in the technologies.
Tsai suggested, that in the past, the technology industries in Taiwan had an open mind, and it’d grown larger in scale, and in the future, the industries must also be more open, not in just facing China, but the rest of the world as well!
And so, from this, you can see, how important reading IS to your adding to your own knowledge base, but these days, we’d become just, WAY too lazy, because if we can get fed the information from watching a video, why the HECK would we want to read the words on the instruction manual on the “how-to”, after all, the passage of information shorter by visual input (in pictures!), compared to how when you need to read through the words on that instructional manual, but, reading is what keeps the brains active, because reading utilizes many parts of your brains, and watching something being done doesn’t activate as many areas in the brains as when you read. So, CRACK open that reading book already!!!
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