呂和謙(Sam)

Having taught four sessions of the summer tutorial class, each lesson remains quite an emotional challenge for me. However, last week, when the president’s wife shared with me that many of these children come from single-parent homes, foreign-spouse families, or are raised by their grandparents, my perspective shifted completely in an instant.

Facing a child who was difficult to guide, I asked him to sit at the back by himself. I knew he had ADHD and struggled to settle down, so I lowered my expectations to the absolute minimum—asking only that he color a single page, simply to help him gradually build patience. The child broke into tears in front of me, asking why I was singling him out. I hope that in the future, he will come to realize I was doing it for his own good.

The wealth gap in Taiwan is widening day by day. I am not so grand as to think I can change the world, but since I am his teacher for even a day, I want to do as much as I possibly can.

I can never forget how my former chemistry and physics teacher used to call on me first whenever he asked a question. My science was terrible, but I knew he did it to push me to preview and review the lessons, so that I would work hard on my own after returning home. I am truly grateful for everything my teacher did. And I hope that one day, this child will understand me, too.

上了四次的暑期輔導班，雖然每一次上課對我來說都是心情的一大挑戰。上星期理事長夫人告訴我很多的小孩子都是單親或者是外配或者是隔代教養，瞬間我的心情有所不同。面對難以調教的小孩子我請他到後面獨座，我知道他們有過動，難以靜下心來。但我把要求降到最低只求他塗一面顏色而已，為了就是讓他慢慢地培養耐心。小孩在我的面前哭了說為何我都針對他，期待在以後，他會知道我是為了他好。台灣的貧富差距日漸增大，我沒有那麼偉大可以改變什麼，但我既然當了一天他的老師，我想我能做到的我就盡量做。因為我永遠難以忘記以前我的理化老師每次要問問題的時候，第一個總是叫我。我的理化很差，我知道他是為了要讓我預習，複習。讓我自己回家以後努力學習。感謝老師所做的一切。也希望以後您能了解。