What Is Education?

As I was searched in the field of being an Elementary School teacher, I emphasized that “Education” is to cultivate our culture.  Through education we learned basic skills, academics, technical, discipline, and being a good citizenship.  In school, our teachers taught the value of understanding the knowledge that we gained as we learn each day.  Understanding the value of knowledge is the gap in between the teachers and students.  To fill the gap the teachers and students must find their inspirations, images of creativity and motivation to expand our eyes and mind in a ways we all can see it together.

Many scientists such as Einstein and Newton succeeded their research due to their collected information for their subject and process according to their knowledgeable. I believed that the key factor to their success is their motivation of finding the answer to an unknown.  Scientists always had this quote like a bible to them “Every problems, there a solution to it.”  Teaching is not like rock and science but the method or process can always be apply to all fields.

As a fellow student myself, my motivation are from my interested of learning new things and my teachers (the ways he/she presents to their knowledge to the subject).  My teachers always to get good grade, all you need are listened to words and finish you homework as assign.  I remember sometime I complete my homework and the result is not correct my teacher will always get me credit point out my mistakes.  A good example is Math, there is more one ways to solve a problem and one mistake will not get you the right answer.  That is my motivation of learning from taking my teacher as role model to me and us students.  I felt that my teacher is here to teach what he/she loves.

Education by itself cannot contain any values but with students and teachers involved, the value of education is existed.  How they strung together determines the level of value.  In the education system, teacher will supply the knowledge to us and our job is to memorize them.   A love to learn must be implant to individuals; inspiration and motivation must give by both sides of the party in order to cultivate.  Test must be giving to test not just the student strength but the strength of teacher too. This is the culture we must cultivate as teacher and student.

Shen Yun Performing Arts

Today I had the chance to watch, what they called “A performance 5000 year in the making with heavenly music, enchanted landscapes, breathtaking dance, timeless legend, one unforgettable show and experience the extraordinary,” by Shen Yun Performing Arts.  Shen Yun was born in 2006 and located in New York.  The meaning of Shen Yun is about the grace, compassion, and sublime beauty of heavenly realms that are shown through the subtlest expressions and gestures of our dancer.  Shen Yun was here in Milwaukee, WI today (March 13, 2011) to show and expressed the Chinese’s culture through their art of dancing from the ancient time to the modern time at the Marcus Performance Center.

            There is total of 21 programs or dances such as: When kings followed the creator to the Earth, Recalling the great Qin, The Monkey King outwits Pigsy, the Opening of Heaven’s Gates, and many more.  Each performances or dances represented its own time and meaning to the Chinese’s culture.  The costumes and music were gorgeous with bright colors, and extraordinary music throughout the hall as the lights was off.  The music was combined with western instruments such as the violent and the Chinese instruments such as pipa to give us the glorious and excitement to the audience with their dance. 

The background was digital design with computer graphic to provide extraordinary of beauty of the landscape of China.  Each background was design to go along each theme of the dance.  With the brilliant color of the costumes and the digital background plus the glorious of music, I cannot help but keep my eyes and ears open the whole the time.  There is happy story to sad story but even in a sad story, it will end with happy. 

I do enjoyed watch every Shen Yun performing.  I remembered watched the opening (When Kings followed the Creator to the Earth), I was so surprised by bright color of the costumes and the dances and even more surprised when they took off the stage and seeing them flying to heaven  on the background screen.  I was also so amazed how the transition from one dancer changing his modern clothes to the army of Qin armor in split second.  The dance called Little Mischievous Monks was a joking theme and so funny and everyone was laughing and enjoyed the little monks playing trick with their teacher.  I would love to watch Shen Yun again and looked forward for their next year in Milwaukee again. 

Hard Time

I’ve been thinking for a while and nothing could come up in my mind.  It seem that the more I think the more I confused and losing my mind.  Sometime I wonder does time played a role in our daily life.  They always said, sometime it takes time and sometime taking too much time are not good.  I assumed that times were hard not just us adults but also to children too. 

            Think back when I am still a little kid, all I know is play and had fun because that is how I used my time.  I never realized that every second is count and the time isn’t easy to manage.  From sunrise to sunset, the time cannot stop, no matter what I do; it felt so hard to control the time.  With just fun and playing on my mind, stopping or freeze time is what I thought that struggle back when I was a kid. 

            Now that I am all grown, I am facing the same struggle the Time.  Many times I asked myself what do I learned in school today, I was like it is a hard time for me. Imagine putting ourselves where struggle comes in four sides, we were man this is hard.  But when someone asking how is going, we were most likely reply hard time due to the struggle we had.

When was just a kid, we never to wonder the hard time, all we can think I don’t want the sun to set, I still wanted run around and enjoy the sun.  As we grown older, we strived for perfection and many times we struggle and felt that is the hardest time we ever face.  Time is time, hard is hard, just simple word that put together get us strong meaning and put ourselves in tiny spot.  Time does play a role in our daily life and we just don’t let the hard and time come together.  Let us manage and use the time instant of letting time control and become hard as we struggle.