The writer’s advice, HEED it, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“Don’t clip the children’s wings, let them fly off!”, the famous writer, Yung Liu consoled the parents, that the moment that children were born, they were, NO longer the parents’ “private properties”, that the children are marching toward their own independence, setting up their own families, “If your child is a pelican, can you, clip of her/his wings, and prevent her/him from taking flight?”
Yung Liu stated, that parents in Taiwan are still worshippers of the “Education is the Highest Ranks”, and the degrees these days had, become, quite useless. And even if the kids graduated from a “name brand” school for three years, and if they don’t learn on their own, they will, surely, get eliminated by the society.
Yung Liu recalled, that his parents were very open on educating him, he’d made dynamite when he was younger, wrote, with a permanent marker on his neighbors’ doors, and, any sort of fruit-bearing leaves, he’d, put into his mouth to chew on, but his mother never told him no, which was why, he’d never had, the “teenage rebellious stages” in his own life.
With a son and a daughter, Yung Liu used his own unique method to educate them, “Freedom in the authorities”. Yung Liu said, as his older son, Hsuan Liu graduated out of middle school, he’d sent him over to New York’s Stuyvesant High School to study, and took a four-hour car ride to school every day, and because of this, Hsuan Liu’s life is very different, he’d taken his music courses from the African Americans on the streets, later on, he’d become, a disc jockey.
Yung Liu said, parents shouldn’t tie the children up from when they were younger, that they’d needed to, give their young, a definite kind of freedom, “a lot of the children who’d read a lot, done well in school, after they’d gotten out, they don’t touch another book again”, like how a child was pushed into taking up piano lessons from when s/he was younger, and learned “I no longer liked the piano”, the education of the Taiwanese culture needed close introspection that’s for certain.
And so, this would be, the experience of a father, because he grew up under the freedom that he had, he’d, in turn, given the same freedoms he had as a child, to his own children, and, his children are very outstanding, because of his methods of NEVER pushing them to make the grades, never holding expectations over their scholastic performances, he just supported his children in whatever they’d wanted to do, and that, is a good father.
Life, the Obstacle Course 