Six Legged Chicken???????
Asia-Pacific News
Taipei - Taiwan's young are too sheltered, bemoans a member of Taiwanese government. One has to look no further than his son, who seems to think chickens have six legs, he says.
Speaking at a seminar on education, former education minister Tzeng Chih-lang, currently a minister without portfolio, bemoaned the fact that many Chinese youths spend their days sealed off from the real world, interacting with the outside almost exclusively via computer.
As an example, he pointed to his university-age son who, during a group project, designed an animated chicken with six legs - apparently under the mistaken assumption that real chickens have six legs because grocery stores sell drumsticks in packs of SIX.
'This is an example of what happens when our young people are obsessed with the virtual world. So it is the task of educators to pull them back into the real world,' Tzeng said.
Tzeng's son reportedly flunked the assignment.
My comments:
two things alerted me in this topic
1- how we really need to encourage our children to go out to nature and see creatures in real.
2- how a Minister in taiwan is able to simply point his own child, who is college level, naiivety without fear of affecting his pride or his image to the people.
I really wish politics in Arab world can be as open minded.
