An Anguished Appeal to Educators

Presently, education in many countries has deteriorated over time, with culture and learning trailing in the dust. Although there are still people in the education profession who strive to save morality and ethics from demise, a cupful of water cannot save a truckload of burning firewood. What is the reason for the complete failure in education? Those in the field of education are unwilling to reform and to make progress. They watch, students grow and degenerate day by day, engaging in murder, arson, robbery, and drug dealing, yet they pretend not to notice. They may even openly encourage students to take drugs, get abortions, behave promiscuously, use contraceptives, and so on. That sort of vulgar behavior can cause students to become depressed and motivate them to go against their conscience.

Although there are still some educators who are speaking out sincerely and exhausting their efforts to reform the degenerate trends and to secure a good foundation for young people, the majority are shamelessly ignoring their conscience and promoting actions that are obscene, disrespectful, and harmful to kinship and public morals. As a result, the brave and noble ideals of the youth are defeated, and their good roots are doomed. Before they are even able to truly activate their wisdom, they have already learned to be frivolous and wild!

Some educators even insist in abolishing the teaching of morality and ethics. These people are nothing but thieves among the virtuous and rascals among the cultured. To cover up their corruptions, they strongly oppose genuine education and developmental educational reforms. Just as the blind leading the blind, they delude the ignorant ones. Is this not a great cause for anguish and worry?

In the process of bringing up the future leaders of the world, people devoted to education should constantly harbor great fearlessness rooted in magnificent bearing and public-spiritedness, selflessness and open-mindedness. This way, they will not fail in their duty and not be ashamed of not fulfilling their duty as educators. However, if they continue to indulge in deviant knowledge and views, jealousy and obstructiveness, pursuit of fame and gain, disparaging others to elevate themselves, covering up their deceitfulness, then education will go down the drain, never to rise and prosper again. Humanity’s great talents will be buried, and the nation’s future will be imperiled! Very dangerous indeed! I hope that educators can arouse the attention of our youth and quickly think of a way to save our young students from going astray and self-destruction. This way, our society and nation will take a turn for the better.