Category: Learning & Teaching
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Euducatin Vs. Foundation
For Taiwan National University (NTU), yesterday was a big and exhilarating day, for as many as 22860 college students took the entrance exams for its graduate schools according to the local media. The school official explained that the increase of students taking the graduate school entrance exams is closely related to the economic recession and…
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Does Internet Make Us Smart?
“In Google’s view, information is a kind of commodity, a utilitarian resource that can be mined and processed with industrial efficiency. The more pieces of information we can ‘access’ and the faster we can extract their gist, the more productive we become as thinkers.” This statement is from Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us…
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Math the Most Wanted
What subject do you think is the most wanted in school in the U.S.? According to an AP poll, one-thirdof the respondents from adults and parents of school-aged children believed math was the subject schools should put more emphasis on and the second is English. Asked why math should be placed most important, most of them consider…
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A global perspective or a godly perspective
This morning our school invited a professor from another university to address college students of business on Global Development: Views from Taiwan. At the beginning of his speech, he encouraged young college students to enrich their knowledge of profession, sharpen foreign language skills, especially English, and develop global perspectives (see the definition) to meet ever-changing global competition.…
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A mistake or a miracle
An 8-year-old Brazilian boy who dreams of being a judge passed a law school entrance exam, which has aroused controversy in the Brazil’s legal profession. The Brazilian Bar Association said, “The boy’s achievement should be a warning about the low standards of some of the nation’s law schools.” In this country, every student is required to take…
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Knowledge itself is power
In Hosea 4:6 it says that my people was destroyed for lack of knowledge. “My people” here represents God’s people, the Israelites. They reject God’s commands dictated by Him through Moses; therefore, they were captured and exiled to Babylon, a pagan nation. Today, people are learning all the time in order not to fall behind…
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Complaint or compliment, a way of thinking
The JCEE pass rate hit the record high this year at roughly 95 percent released by the Joint Board of the College Recruitment Commission, which means that almost every student who tooke this year’s examination are able to get accepted into one college or university. Some critics have blamed the highly rising acceptance rate over…
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Sacrificial love
One day Admetus fell ill, and being near death his friend Apollo was willing to help retain Admetus’ life provided that someone would consent to die in his stead. First of all, he asked his warriors and servants to be a substitute of death, but they would rather fight or serve until die than take his place…
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Gospel truth
“Hockey stick” data collated in Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is now widely accepted as gospel truth. Gospel normally refers to the first four books of the New Testament, which are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These four books are a detailed account of Jesus’ life and his teachings which are held to be absolutely…
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Fig leaf
The arguments put forward by the committee are just a fig leaf to justify their actions. When I first came across the phrase ‘fig leaf’, it caught my attention immediately because I know it must be a metaphorical reference to the book of Genesis in the Bible though I am not sure exactly what the it…
TJ Gong 