I had a strong resonance with our guest speaker, because I can relate to a lot of stuffs that she talked about. She saw what was going on in her neighborhood and she did not like it, so she thought of change. For me I saw flawed social practices back in my homeland China, and I also want to make a change. And just like her, I sincerely believe that the solution is through education. Instill the sense of quality and moral practice to the now generation, and educate the younger and future generations. Relate to what our guest speaker said is that the goal is to change the climate of the community, on a larger scale—the society, and gradually change generations’ mindsets. And as she mentioned, I agree that one key of education is to raise awareness of responsibility and basic moral ethics; guide the younger generations to find their true meaning of life, so that they can live their live more positively.
Because of the great population, the Chinese society is an extremely competitive environment. Along with that is a distorted unhealthy social structure, with humongous working class population, and a huge upper class group, there are almost no clearly defined middle class. With the sandglass like social structure, there is a tremendous gap between the rich and the poor, and as society moves forward, it is getting harder and harder for the people at the “bottom” to climb up the ladders. As a consequence, this ill society structure fostered efforts with false purpose/ initiative put forth by people living under it. When people are working just for money, aiming just to live luxurious life and worshiping hedonism, they are losing the purpose of life. Again I believe the cure is up mentioned education and caring hearts.
About caring, one thing I found really interesting was that she said a lot of the kids in trouble just need somebody to talk to. And by just talking with them you can change their life forever. Also as she mentioned when you are listening, you have to move your ego out of the way and purely listen to what a person says. Because with your ego in place you cannot help from judging whatever you may hear.
At last, another thing I found interesting is the concept of leading the group behind the group. Instead of stand in front of the group and lead, she said she consider her leadership more of a standing behind the group and pushing the group forward kind of role. I call it “herding leadership”, and I believe this herding leadership is extremely applicable and fitted for education. Overall, our guest speaker taught me a valuable lesson in what I wanted to do in life.
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