From: wang@ssd.intel.com (Wen-Lin Wang)
Subject: Re: HSNU needs you!
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:19:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.001718.3341@athena.mit.edu> clin@athena.mit.edu (Chia-Liang Lin) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.191044.269@watserv1.waterloo.edu> ptyshih@watnow.waterloo.edu (Paul T.Y. Shih (Taku or Pear)) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr14.100425.2943@vax.muskingum.edu> ericlaw@vax.muskingum.edu writes:
>>>In article <1992Apr13.202045.22500@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, ptyshih@watnow.waterloo.edu (Paul T.Y. Shih (Taku or Pear)) writes:
>>>> 
>>>> 	Greeting for the big day! And thanks, HSNU (the senior high
>>>> 	school of National Taiwan Normal University), for giving me
>>>> 	the best high school life I could get in Taiwan.....
>>>> 
>>>> 	Paul T.Y. Shih (H472)
>>>
>>>
>>>	** Hay, I think Jian Guo Zhon Hsieh is better than HSNU.
>>>	   People from Jian Zhon should have a better high school
>>>	   life. Shouldn't it? 
>>	
>>	Nope, Jian4-Zhon1 might have more hard-studying students,
>>	more acadamical reputation, but HSNU is good at uniformly
>>	devoloping students' personality, skills, maturity. I am
>>	proud of being part of it.
>>
>>	Paul (H472)
>
>	I have something to say about "personality, skills, maturity". All
>of them are not easy to evaluate. However, there are some criteria that might
>be helpful for us to get a rough idea about the personalities, skills, and
>maturities of the students from a specific school. For instance: How are
>they involved in extracurricular activities? How do they achieve in 
>inter-school contests? How many of them enter the Hall-of-Fame in their
>own careers?
>
>	To the best of my knowledge, Jian4-Zhon1 is the high school in 
>Taiwan that has most extracurricular associations (in my high school
>days, there were around one hundred). Every year Jian4-Zhon1's students
>hold a music concert in Dr. Sun Yeh-Sen Memorial Auditorium and present
>a state-of-the-art performance which is considered far beyond what you
>can expect from high school kids. Just to name a few. Dig deeper into
>these aspects and you will have a better idea and be able to come up
>with a more convincing argument.
>
>Chia-Liang Lin
>Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
>

Great!  Is this some kind of pissing contest or what?  Maybe we can also
compare grade schools, kindergartens, day cares, fetus education,... etc.

IMO, comparing high schools or lower education institutes in Taiwan is
meaningless.  All the public schools are under the same system and philosophy,
that is to cram as many students into college as possible.  Even private
schools carry the same burden.  At most you can say that some schools may 
admit more students who memorize better.

It is great that one is proud of his/her own alma mater.  And, you shall find
many who do regardless where they are from.  As to how successful a person is,
IMO, it all depends on how this person feels about him/herself after receiving
all the benefit/beating from formal education. 

>
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