China earthquake; teacher left students behind as he ran to safety..
Thursday, November 13, 2008
China earthquake: Teacher (Fan Meizhong) admits leaving pupils behind as he fled Chinese earthquake.
source from: http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080615_1.htm ( <- visit this for complete story)
"I ran towards the stairs so fast that I stumbled and fell as I went. When I reached the centre of the football pitch, I found I was the first to escape. None of my pupils was with me"
Hu Yifu: I don’t know how to describe you. When people ask you about your occupation, how would you reply? (tiwi: du-uh)
Fan Meizhong: Teacher.
Hu Yifu: When you make that reply, do you feel that teacher is a holy occupation?
Fan Meizhong: I don’t think that it is holy. (tiwi: everyone has his opinion and i think he's right)
Hu Yifu: What kind of work do you think it is?
Fan Meizhong: I think that it is just like any other occupation. It is just one of many occupations. I tend to think that a teacher has the job of educing the thinking and intelligence out of people, including letting the students express their creativity. I reject the notion of holiness. Nobody is holy, so no occupation is holy. (tiwi: i think this is undoubtedly correct)
Fan Meizhong: I am very happy that there is such a morally high-minded person in China such as yourself.
Guo Songmin: This is not about moral high-mindedness. This is about the bottom line. First, you abandoned the duty as a teacher and you fled first. Secondly, you did not even given a yell to the students. Thirdly, you are an adult. If what you say is right, then the soldiers at the front line can put down their weapons, pilots can parachute out first before their passengers and the captain can abandon his ship and flee. Our entire society would lapse into chaos. (tiwi: what's it got to do with soldiers? they are trained to risk their life for the country and they have their own responsibilities and the captain thing, i know it's that professional ethics bla bla matters but that captain board the ship with one thing in his mind, he had to bring his passengers safe and sound to the destination, he has the responsibility to manage the ship to be as safe as possible, i don't think this is relevant as all of those- captain, soldier thing is a job with life and death issues attached)
Hu Yifu: Now that things have reached this point, many people are wondering just why Teacher Fan wants to speak out so frankly? People say that nobody tells the truth when they are the object of criticisms. Could he have made an apology through a friend?
Wu Liming: Each person has his own responsibility. At the key moment, it serves no good for him to die. But this person happens to be more sincere and frank. Is it so wrong to be frank? (tiwi: 100% right, i do think he got his point)
Guo Songmei: You were the one who ruined your own life. Did you need me to ruin it? (tiwi: if he did ruined his life, it's his own business...)
Hu Yifu: When you hire a teacher, what standards do you use?
Qing Guangya: The teacher should love the students and his job. That is definitely the first requirement. If he does not love his job, why should I want him? (tiwi: this is so old fashioned, in this century, who does things like loving their students? it's really rare to see one! face the cruel reality please...)
Hu Yifu: Do you regret now at not having yelled out?
Fan Meizhong: I think that when the earthquake hit so unexpectedly, the mind goes blank. At the moment, I lost the power to think rationally. From that viewpoint, there is nothing to regret. It was not my responsibility. You cannot say that I intentionally did not yell, or that I did not want to save the students. At that moment, I was really not in control of myself.
On the Internet, people may have said that Fan Zhongmei is unforgivable.
tiwi: why is everybody blaming him? he's just a human being, he has his own fear, his own rights, he deserve to do what he wants with his life and plus they never experience what he had gone through, i wonder what will they (the criticizers) do when they face this problem, not everyone is perfect so please don't badly judge people..
i respect his way of thinking, where he only care about his life and his family. if he died, his family will suffer, he's the backbone of the family, it's sort of like this "he die=his family die" he has this thought and he thinks of his little girl, i really respect this person because he really care about his family. there is also a teacher who died in the earthquake but what happened to his family afterwards?..
and i do agree that it takes alot of guts just to say it so honestly, frankly just like he did.
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