It’s Mingshang’s birthday this week and it’s also the 9th year Mingshang taught in the G senior high school. We had a dinner with one of our friends in University. The teaching career in Taiwan isn’t always easily especially in private school. You’re not only need to work a long hours but almost 24 hours on duty because you’ve never know what happen on your lambs. Mingshang got a bad luck on his career and brought him a hard time recently.
Mingshang
You will never know where the crisis comes from no matter how much you take good care of your life. That’s this story comes from. One day, some of his students hanged out in a park nearby his school. There are some teen gangs also chatted there. When the teenager meets the teenager, it means fire. Even no-one knew where is the fire comes from. The two gangs have a serious fight because they don’t like each other. Some went to the hospital.
It’s not a surprising story and probably happened 100 time in a senior high shcool. It’s a simple case if you see from an education point of view. But, if it’s political point of view, it might be another story. Mingshang believes in his humanistic education thought. In his school, controled students by army style is a lot more simple than humanistic thought. The director of his department is a loyal believer and he asked Mingshang needs to take the responsibility of this issue. (I thought he waits for a long time.) He commanded Mingshang hand over his class and no class for him to lead next semester.
Most parents of Mingshang’s class was shocked and volunteerly sent letters to the president of the school. They all knew he is a responsible teacher and the students love him. However, it embarassed the director more. The political issue always resolved by the political way. The final resolution the president made is “Mingshang still need to hand over his class but will lead the other class of the 1 grade (the fresh fish) next semester. Mingshang hurts a lot by this case. He loved his students and family. However, he almost lost his job and the passion of the education by an unexpected trouble because of the political reason.
Fang-pong
I remember a story I read when I studied in University. There is a guy in Han dynastic called “Fang-pong”. At his era, the eunuchs held the government and the emperor. They corrupted, sold the government position and taxed heavy on people. Fang-pong wrote many letters to the emperor, killed many robbers and sent many corrupted governor to jail but most of them have relationship with eunuchs. The eunuchs gave him some accusations and sentenced his death penalty.
The place where chinese did the execution
The last day in his execution ground, he made his extraordinary last will and the sentences are still immortally sounds in my mind even he said it 2000 years ago. The history book said :
Before the butcher cutted his head, he said to his son :
吾欲使汝為惡，則惡不可為；吾欲使汝為善，則我不為惡。
I want you to do the evil deed. However, people shouldn’t do the bad thing. I wish you to do the benevolent deed. However, I never do the evil thing.
That’s what I thought, too. I don’t know this world either.
