大學生該做與不該做的事

　　這是在上次賈教授的演講之後，在寄出心得的邀請閱讀函時發生的插曲，這次重新提到我的部落格，讓湯教授又更加深入的去看我網誌的文章，也針對以前我對他演講的評語，提出了一些 說明與澄清，讓我體會到他們想要我們達成的，也同時讓他們體會我們怎麼想的，但禮節二字，確實了貫穿這三封信的主軸，並且因此而能夠有所＂討論＂，若你對我會寫什麼給教務長有興趣，請耐心的將下列信函看完，很抱歉我並沒有時間去翻譯，期待聽到各位的看法與想法！


Dear Troy:

　　Thanks for the mail. I will forward your article and pictures to Prof. Jia, although he does not have an e-mail and never uses computer.

　　I also glaced through your blog, more than a couple times, which is full of personal thoughts, enthusiasm and ideas. I feel sorry that my talk in early March disappoint you. There are many ways to promote one's humanities. As a VP of Acadeic Affairs, my priority is to ensure our education environment and most importantly our faculty memebers be equipped with humanism. It is not easy. However, we can invite people with humanities, or so called renaissance man to stimulate our faculties and students.

　　This is the reason why I invite Prof. Jia and Lung Ying-Tai as well. Last year, Prof. Lung offered Thinker Saloon to NCKU and has visited NCKU three times since then. She will come to our university again in Sept to give a dialoguewith his son Andrea. Finally, I want to reilterate(?) that students can not only challenge our faculties, but also learn from each other in leveraging one's knowledge as well as humanism. You are an outstanding one from this perspective.

Keep working and best luck to your learning.

Ming-Jer Tang


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Dear Tang:

　　Thanks for spending time to clarify my misunderstanding! I always see things from the surface, or just the main point. Actually, I just become this kind of serious student only for months from the beginning of this semester. I have to apologize for my comment, which doesn't have enough consideration. Now I know that when I find out some problem, I should stand on their side to think and consider some other reasons. Then I can have much objective comments.

　　I hope you also saw that in this article and the one forwarded to Prof. jia, I want to pay respect on your humanism part. But I'm really sorry for words that are too harsh and think-numbing, it would hurt someone who did make a lot effort on students. I want to give you more appreciation to thank for your humanity that you didn't blame me, and　give me more encouragement. You are really going on the way of humanism, and will be my idol of life.

P.S. I think this event could be a good example of the conflict between generations.　　May I have this response to be an new article or a comment for the article for the forum? I do want to write an article about politeness ignorance of new generation.

Troy Sun


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Dear Troy:

　　You are certainly welcome to post my response to your blog.In fact, I do cherish your comments on my talk. Because I always encourage our students to challenge our teachers (with reasons), I do take your comments quite seriously. I agree with you that I did not provide enough examples in my talk for you to follow. Being a teacher, your comments gave me good thoughts to reflect and to improve. I am also very happy to see that you have reflection on your side. Keep good works on the blog and best regards,

Ming-Jer