For the Sake of Other People...We Were Glad to Help

 

 

 

Today is the second day of the BCT; that is, the high school entrance exam. This year, NHSH is responsible for the distribution and collection of the test papers for all the testees in Taipei. Many teachers and students got involved in this "feat." In most of the above photos are the members of my team. At Hsi-sung High School, we worked carefully and did our utmost to help. Everyone wore a smile all along. I'm really proud of my team and NHSH. And also, we'd like to thank Wan-fang High School and Hsi-sung High School. Their assistance made the mission go smoothly.

This two-day experience reminds me of Albert Einstein's article "For the Sake of Other Men" especially the 2nd paragraph.

For the Sake of Other Men

by Albert Einstein

 

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men- above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.

To ponder interminably over the reason for one's own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

 

P.S. Captions for the photos.

1. The team working at Hsi-sung High School (today)

2. NHSH teachers and students leaving for separate test sites on Wednesday for the set-up

3. Junior High School teachers cheering for their students at the gate of the test site (this morning)

4. The leaders (yesterday)

5. Collecting test papers from the proctors (yesterday)

6. Student assistants (today)

7. My assistant and me (yesterday)