Taiwan Students Need to Step Out of Comfort Zone: Academic
TAINAN, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The younger generation in Taiwan today is too comfortable in their small
world and must connect with the larger world, a scholar said.
“As I often say to my students, the greatest danger in life is not
taking risks”
Frederick Hsia made his remarks in his article “Blue and Gray,” which
was carried in a recent issue of Spring of Mind published by the
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School.
According to Hsia, a visiting professor from the Department of Hydraulic
and Ocean Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU),
Westerners seem to be more adventurous than their Oriental counterparts,
as they have discovered the new world, traveled around the globe,
conquered the South and North Poles, climbed the Everest, entered outer
space and landed on the Moon in the past centuries.
Taking the famed 15th-century Chinese explorer Zheng He for
example — he led 240 ships to the West in 1405 but never crossed the
Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean or the Atlantic, even though the number of
his ships was far greater than the 3 ships led by Christopher Columbus,
who discovered America in 1492.
“Suspecting the world was flat, Zheng He feared the crew might sail to
the end of the world and go down a waterfall,” Hsia pointed out. “The
adventurous spirit is still lacking in Taiwan’s youth 600 years after
Zheng He.”
He has observed that the number of exchange students form mainland China
in the United States is greater than those from Taiwan and the
scholarship the Chinese students have received is also higher than that
awarded to the Taiwanese students in the last 15 years.
Article source: PRNewswire
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