Finding the joys, the meanings, of his calling, of being, a school, instructor, a man, dedicating his teaching career, to educate the students, as well as the parents, on the aesthetics, off of the Newspapers, translated…
The Hushan Elementary School is situated at the Yangming Mountain, where the dye material, mayflower gloryberry, in 2003, with the industries pushing forth the dyeing classes, the visual arts instructor, Yen got into contact with the local studios, and learned about the skills to dyeing, for eighteen years the blue dye became a unique class offered in the elementary school where the man worked.
After he graduated from the technical high schools, Yen worked as a prison system manager, working in the systems of corrections, it’d given him the understanding of what can make a person head toward the wrong paths in life, which led him on the path to education. He’d given up the public position of a prison manager, worked hard, to get into the teaching college, “I’m unlike the regular students, spent more time on playing, I’d taken a ton of extra courses, hoping to become a better teacher.”
In Hushan Elementary School, Yen took his students to learn about the various ways of dyeing the cloths, and other skills relating, which made the class something unique from the school, it’s also, the students’, favorite classes offered. Yen also took the students to the exhibitions, and set up the dark room classes for the sixth graders about to graduate from the elementary school, he’d told, that a lot of his students went on to study in the related majors.
Yen told, “the blue dyes mixed with the blue paint, with the sunlight, and the number of times the items got used, the colors would fade into light blue or white, this was the terminal point of the dyes that were once, blue”. Yen stated, every time he’d taught his students, he’d done his best, to remind them to dye their projects darker, and also used the example from how the dyes would fade to teach them: “like the blue dyes, life is a series of losses, be prepared for it early.”
Currently, his class is offered as a technical skills course for the students, but Yen believed, that one day soon, maybe, it can get turned into what his students will make a living off of, “if they owned a piece of land on Yangming Mountain, then they get to plant the mayflower gloryberry, and develop the place into a blue-dye studio, it would then become, a skillset that the students can utilize for the rest of their lives.”
Yen told, that because there were students who couldn’t make it to the class because of a cold that the student started crying at home, a lot of students would go home, and share with their parents what they’d learned in his classes; he’d hoped to get the parents and children involved in the art education, had often hosted the seminars for the parents of his students, he’d even taken on offering the arts classes for the adults too.
He believed, that aesthetics is not limited to the arts, the canvases, that everything you see, is considered, artistic, including life, architecture, technologies, it’s all skills that the students can take away, and use for the rest of their lives.
And so, this man found something different, something unique, to teach to his class, and, by instilling in the students, that sense of beauty, the students are going to be able to become more artistic, in what they do, more creative too, which helps them to be able to come up with creative solutions for things they may come across in their futures, and, this man also, helped bring about the sense of beauty in the parents of his students too.
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