Lessons being learned, OUTSIDE of the classroom settings here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Farady Program ended with the lessons of cycling around the island, testing the children’s minds, as well as for the parents, to learn, to let go. A female student, Lu who is going into Hsinchu All girls’ high school said, she’d been in the Farady program for three years, and discovered, that so long as she has her courage, she could accomplish a lot of the things she’d never imagined she could.
The principal, Lin stated, that learning can happen anywhere, the important thing is to spark that sense of curiosity in children, their ambitions, as well as their desires to acquire the knowledge, when the children are no longer learning, for the sake of passing the exams, then, learning becomes, more natural. The Farady outdoors courses helped polished up the minds of the students, something they will never learn in school or the texts.
Lin recalled, that one year at the cycling around the island coursework, one first year middle school girl started crying unstop at the rolling “Good Man’s Slopes”, reason for, wasn’t because she couldn’t manage to get over the slopes one by one, but because the accompanying instructor wanted to help her lighten her load by carrying some of her luggage away, but she’d not wanted the help from her instructors; back then, this young woman who refused to be defeated, is now, studying as a Chinese Department student at N.T.U.
Lu said, the Farady Coursework started with climbing the Hehuan Mountain, and as the students took that first step with their fellow classmates, the Hehuan Mountain became more than just a mountain, but a common goal they all want to cross. In the natural world, the classmates faced the difficulties, the challenges together, given one another encouragements. She’d acted as the team leader, and learned to listen, knew to collect everybody’s opinions to solve a problem effectively, so everybody is satisfied with the outcomes of the decisions that she’d made for all.
The parent, Liang observed, that in the Farady coursework, her child learned to think on her/his own, to solve the problems by her/himself, to manage oneself as well, and the parents rarely stepped in, so the children became more mature, more understanding at the end of this experience. She’d recalled how she’d viewed her own son as a child, actually, she’d, stripped him of his learning rights.
So, this, is a great program that they have here, with the kids, challenging themselves, becoming more self-motivated, to reach their own goals, and through this experience, the students will become more mature, in the sense, that they’d taken the initiatives in their own lives.
Life, the Obstacle Course 