竹中14屆學生 湯猛雄
10/11/20 20:21
I feel immeasurable sadness to say my eternal good bye to you, our beloved Teacher Tang.
When you began your teaching career at Hsinchu Senior High, we were your first students, and we were lucky enough to have you as our homeroom teacher the next year as well. During those very memorable two years, you made English class so interesting that I never heard any complaints about it. In fact, we all felt incredibly privileged to have you as our teacher. You often kept us teenage boys interested by talking about movies, contemporary literature, and other fascinating topics in class. Two things you spoke about remain deeply imprinted in my mind to this day. It was sixty years ago and you thought that many contemporary writers were better than Hemingway despite his just receiving a Nobel Prize! I thought, wow, our teacher really has a great understanding of literature, deep beyond our reach. The second thing was how you emphasized that “love” is the most essential element of marriage. For a young boy who had never experienced love, I got into a small debate with you. My reason: the majority of marriage in our society at that time was arranged, including my parents’ and many, many more. Arranged marriage seemed to function very well. Of course, you were right, and I was very wrong. Later on, we all realized that you and Mrs. Tang had a great love story. I was very lucky to have chance to know Mrs. Tang, after being away from Taiwan from a long period. She was truly a wonderful person, and I instantly felt a connection. You both were our beloved teachers.
We loved your class; we felt you that we were one of us. In your class, nobody was left behind, no matter how good or how bad we were in the class. I have been very fortunate to have the opportunity to be a teacher following my graduation from college. You are my idol as a teacher – someone who teaches with full dedication, teaching only what you love, enjoying teaching, and having confidence that every student has a great potential.
About fifteen years ago I was invited to give lectures in Taiwan, and Tsing Hua was one of the schools. I asked my host to arrange a visit with you. Before my trip back to Taiwan, I was wondering what the best small gift would be to express my memory of you as my teacher. One day I visited my favorite local chocolate shop and I found one - a big piece of sweet chocolate embedded with three words that summarized the exact of my feeling about you - “The best teacher”. Teacher Tang you do not fancy words to describe how good you are. You are simply the best.
Rest in peace Teacher Tang. You have done a marvelous job teaching us and you have an abundance of accomplishments. I will always treasure the time we spent together.
生 湯猛雄 Moon-shong Tang, PhD
Professor, New York University School of Medicine
When you began your teaching career at Hsinchu Senior High, we were your first students, and we were lucky enough to have you as our homeroom teacher the next year as well. During those very memorable two years, you made English class so interesting that I never heard any complaints about it. In fact, we all felt incredibly privileged to have you as our teacher. You often kept us teenage boys interested by talking about movies, contemporary literature, and other fascinating topics in class. Two things you spoke about remain deeply imprinted in my mind to this day. It was sixty years ago and you thought that many contemporary writers were better than Hemingway despite his just receiving a Nobel Prize! I thought, wow, our teacher really has a great understanding of literature, deep beyond our reach. The second thing was how you emphasized that “love” is the most essential element of marriage. For a young boy who had never experienced love, I got into a small debate with you. My reason: the majority of marriage in our society at that time was arranged, including my parents’ and many, many more. Arranged marriage seemed to function very well. Of course, you were right, and I was very wrong. Later on, we all realized that you and Mrs. Tang had a great love story. I was very lucky to have chance to know Mrs. Tang, after being away from Taiwan from a long period. She was truly a wonderful person, and I instantly felt a connection. You both were our beloved teachers.
We loved your class; we felt you that we were one of us. In your class, nobody was left behind, no matter how good or how bad we were in the class. I have been very fortunate to have the opportunity to be a teacher following my graduation from college. You are my idol as a teacher – someone who teaches with full dedication, teaching only what you love, enjoying teaching, and having confidence that every student has a great potential.
About fifteen years ago I was invited to give lectures in Taiwan, and Tsing Hua was one of the schools. I asked my host to arrange a visit with you. Before my trip back to Taiwan, I was wondering what the best small gift would be to express my memory of you as my teacher. One day I visited my favorite local chocolate shop and I found one - a big piece of sweet chocolate embedded with three words that summarized the exact of my feeling about you - “The best teacher”. Teacher Tang you do not fancy words to describe how good you are. You are simply the best.
Rest in peace Teacher Tang. You have done a marvelous job teaching us and you have an abundance of accomplishments. I will always treasure the time we spent together.
生 湯猛雄 Moon-shong Tang, PhD
Professor, New York University School of Medicine