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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [I Love Taiwan] Not to make fun of The 4 Books and 5 Classics
This telling the truth that all, not just well-educated, can see and understand.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/sep/30/today-o12.htm
今日漫畫|稿約
四書五經
農委會預算
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>From: Tun-Hou Lee <
tunh...@hsph.harvard.edu>
>To:
edwar...@gmail.com; i_love_taiwan
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i_love...@googlegroups.com>;
stanya...@yahoo.com>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:46 AM
>Subject: Re: [I Love Taiwan] Not to make fun of The 4 Books and 5
>Classics
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>I have always been puzzled by why not a single country that has under long influence of Chinese culture is a democracy. I really think glorifying 4B and 5C has something to do with this. I think pointing out the fallacies of 4B and 5C without making fun of them can be accomplished and should be done. To let Ma/KMT continue brainwashing those major in literature will be a shame.
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>Tun-Hou
>>>> stan yang <
stanya...@yahoo.com> 9/29/2011 11:30 PM >>>
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>I personally don't know much about the 4B and 5C. However, there are indeed quite a bit of population in Taiwan, particularly those major in literaures, really like it.
>
>4B and 5C are considered as important chinese literaure by many mainlanders, otherwise they won't be promoted and spread down for so many years. To some, 4B and 5C are equivalent to the Chinese Koran, or bible. Therefore greencamps should not make fun of it, as it will anger many and energize the KMT voters.
>
>--- On Thu, 9/29/11, Edward Wung <
edwar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>From: Edward Wung <
edwar...@gmail.com>
>>Subject: [I Love Taiwan] The 4 Books and 5 Classics
>>To: "i_love_taiwan" <
i_love...@googlegroups.com>
>>Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 9:35 AM
>>
>>The 4 Books and 5 Classics
>>
>>I was watching Da-Hwa the other day and was surprised by a caller advising Da-Hwa folks not to make fun of Ma's promotion of "The 4 Books and 5 Classics" (will be referred to as "4B&5C" hereafter). The caller claimed that criticizing the study of "4B&5C" will hurt the Green Camp because many green folks want their kids to study "4B&5C" as well. I was appalled.
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>>I am an aerospace engineer, and I do not believe "4B&5C" has done me any good after my 1st year in college when "Chinese" was still a class that everyone needed to take. Even then the only benefit that I got from 4B&5C was helping me to collect a few college credits that I needed for graduation, nothing more and nothing less. Today, none of the skills that I use to make my living day in and day out has come from 4B&5C. Then, why do we want to encourage our kids to study this junk? Even if we assume 4B&5C do have some values, can anyone claim there is something in it that we can learn only from 4B&5C and not from anywhere else? Can anyone tell me if this is the case?
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>>If the many honorable professors of this Forum agree with me that 4B&5C are nothing but junk, then I believe we shall speak out and also speak up so our voices can be heard. Kids shall spend time on things that can be more useful in their future studies. Both my kids were born and raised in the States, and both went to engineering schools. Both had two years of college-level Physics and Calculus under their belt before graduating from high school.How many Taiwanese kids can make the same claim?
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>>Do Taiwanese parents wish their kids to be competitive in the international arena? If they do, would they have wanted their kids to study 4B&5C instead of taking other more worldly courses?
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>> Ed
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