This group of younger generation of students worked hard, to turn their own lives, around, from the Front Page Sections, written by the CEO of an education foundation, translated…
The Day of the Youth is approaching, early in the morn, the case workers chimed excitedly, that at the end of last year, there was an instructor of an enterprise who’d provided the E-style system Creativity Applications competition, and encouraged the students whom my foundation helped out to enter. And in the end, the second place trophy went to Puli Technical High School, and the head of student affairs, Mr. Chiu sent a photo of the students receiving the trophy to us to share.
As I’d heard I was moved, seeing how a child carried the plaque with the certificate of award, I’d started, crying then. Aren’t the hands of those who are young smooth? But, that pair of hands weren’t like the hands of youthful and innocence, there were, the markings of hardworking, of overcoming the trials on them.
Thinking of how in order to help the world see the importance of technical education, to make everybody pay more attention to the skills instruction, to no longer see technical schools as a second-choice, and we’d also want to help the students feel that they are, just as worthy, out of the technical school systems too. We’d not just give the funding, we’d also worked hand-in-hand with the enterprises, to have the heads of the enterprises to help the students learn the skill sets; in the interview, I see, that although this group of young kids are not articulate, but their eyes were, focused in front of the cameras, hands-on is not to be, taken lightly that’s for sure. A lot of the heads of student affairs in the schools with the children we sponsored told, that some of the children from the not-so-well-to-do economic backgrounds are working the jobs on the weekends, so they can only practice the skills for the competitions at night, and thinking of children at their age, should they not be shooting the hoops after school then, heading home with sweats dripping down, or rushing to the cram schools, to study hard to get into their, first-choices of schools? But they’d, continued practicing the skills in front of the machines, hoping to pass their level B technician exams, or to earn outstanding remarks on the competitions, then, with that certificate of excellent, get into the public technical universities, and finally, changing their own fates, with their own, two hands.
As I chat with this group of students about the future, they don’t speak of those far-fetched ideals, they’d all told, “we’re just, working our ways up, step, by step!”, life being hard, and it’d, helped, built up their, strengths and help them have a more practical outlook on life too. The younger generations’ complaints of not being understood, of upset in love, or being pressured by the academics, none of these are as important as gaining a life skill, to help them, turn their own lives, around.
I’d sent the photos to the good friend who’d helped sponsored these kids, said, “These are the hands, with the ability to, change their own, destinies, rough, but, strong; and one day, they will, change how we see technical education, that, is what I, believe.
And so, these students have a clear goal of what they want to achieve in their lives, they’d, worked hard, to perfect their skill sets, and, won the competitions, and, changed their own, lives with, their hard work, it’s truly, inspirational here.