Without Home Visits Made by His School Instructor from the Elementary School Years, He Couldn’t Have Achieved So Much

The effect of a teacher on a student’s life, translated…

The Second-in-Command of the Department of Education, Tsai came from a poverty-stricken single-parent background, his mother did other people’s laundries, weaved up the baskets, to help keep the household economics going.  He’d disclosed, that he’d never even, graduated from the elementary years, that his mother had already found him an apprenticeship at a motorcycle repair shop, but his homeroom instructor believed, that him, as the second-to-the head-of-the-class not continuing his education would be such a shame, so the instructor convinced his mother to send him to middle school, and ever since, he’d, studied, all the way up to his doctorate, his teacher had, changed his life completely.

Yesterday, Tsai, on behalf of the Department of Education, announced the candidates for teacher of the year, there were, seventy-two school officials, teachers, department heads, principals, disciplinary officials who were on the list, and of them, Lin, the middle school principal from a single-parent family, who’d used his spare time away from school, to work odds and ends jobs with his mother, and, he’d envied how his classmates had the spare money to buy things at the school store, how they could go on graduation trips.  After he’d become a school principal, he’d worked hard, to help the students from poverty stricken backgrounds.

a teacher making a home visit, not my photo…

At age sixty, Tsai had a similar upbringing to Lin.  At the age of three, his father passed away, his mother became the sole economic provider, and did the laundry for a pilot at his home daily, and, after she got off from her work, she’d not gotten any time to relax, she’d weaved the bamboo baskets, to make the extra money.

Tsai recalled, that every day after school in his elementary years, he’d needed to weave thirty bamboo baskets first, then, reviewed his lessons for the day, finished his homework assignments.  Until he’d gone to the college of education of Kaohsiung University, he’d still weaved the bamboo baskets to help his mother out in the summer and winter breaks, “I can’t weave any sort of pattern.”

a caring instructor that’s going to make a difference in a child’s life…

In his fourth grade year, Tsai’s mother found a motorcycle repair garage for him, planned to have him start apprenticing there after he graduated from the elementary years.  After he entered into the fifth grade, his homeroom instructor, Wang did a tally of those students who are planning to further their education, over half of the class of seventy-one are not going further in their education, including Tsai, who’s the second top scorer on the exams.

One day after school, he was weaving the bamboo baskets at home, his homeroom instructor, Wang made an unannounced home visit, and waited with him until his mother came home, and then, he’d convinced her hard, to allow him to further his education; but his mother told the instructor, that they didn’t have the extra money to put him through school, then, his homeroom instructor told her, that as he entered into his last year of elementary, the nine-years of free education had just been, set up, and that was when, his mother agreed to allow him to enter into middle school.

And since, Tsai went all the way to the Department of Education in the Kaohsiung Teachers’ University, the Master Program for Education, and the Doctorate Program for Education in Poli-Sci University, he worked as the Director of Department of Education in Kaohsiung, the Assistant Dean of the Wen-Zao Foreign Language University, and this time, he was put up for nomination of the second-in-charge of the Department of Education by the new government.

graduation, yay!!!

There are so many cases of someone’s life being changed by a good teacher out there.

So, this, would be how the school teachers managed to, inspire the students to achieve more, and without his teacher, this man couldn’t have gotten educated, nor could he have become nominated, as a government official in the Department of Education, and that, would be the importance, of having a school teacher that inspired you.