On helping with the literacy of the children in distant-region areas, interview with the head of Department of Education, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The head of Department of Education, Pan stated five areas of reinforcement on the matter of helping to boost literacy in the lower socioeconomics families’ children, it’d mentioned: schools are the key to reduce the gaps of reading ability in children with little to no resources provided to them. It’s quite reasonable, I think, a lot of the educated in the society believe this. The former president of Chingwha University, Mei stated, “school is like the water, the professors, the students, the fish, and, we’re all swimming together. The bigger fish leading, the smaller follow, learning along.”
And now, I want to state the “five directions” of the education of distant region schools (synonymous with families of less sort”, I wanted to focus on the third, fourth of sharing resources, and self-motivated learning means. I know of a lot of foundations, nonprofit organizations that are constantly donating the volumes, and the local public libraries hosting the libraries on wheels programs. But now, what we see as the evaluation of literacy is that the gaps is still growing wider, there not a found effect, it’s quite, worrisome.
Many years ago, at the ceremonies of the Golden Trophy Awards, the well-known journalist, Chiao stated, “give me ten dollars, and I will give you the whole world”. The abilities of the newspapers, sounded, so, ironclad. You can see how varied the pages of newspapers are, the travel section, finances, life and the creative writing too! I have a thought, why not, gather up the newspapers that we are reading right now, collect them up, and, deliver them to the distant-regions by schedules; with the schools pushing forth the “reading for ten minutes in the early mornings” program, they can have it in their access. No pressures, no testing over what’s been read, and there wouldn’t be the selectiveness of reading materials. I think this would be, easily, implemented. Six years of elementary plus three years of middle school, “accumulating the knowledge base”, you can expect a steady increase of reading abilities through this means, and, it will surely, pull the distance of learning, of literacy between the major cities and distant regions, closer together.
This would be, a doable idea that’s for sure, but, the students must be interested in what’s written in the papers, for them to pick it up, or maintain their sense of curiosities to find out more on the topics as the instructors read to the class, and, this can be set up by having the parents read to their own young at home, only, that in these distant-regions, money is hard enough to come by, and the parents are all out and about, making ends meet, how can they find the spare time, to read to their young? So yeah, this is still, a bit, too ideal, but, it’s not, impossible.