「菲律濱中正學院訊」：菲律濱中正學院高中部為灌輸學生中華文化道統思想，特在二○一八年一月廿六日上午十點半，在中正學院大學樓，舉辦了一場學術講座，主題為「中華文化傳統之精髓」。特別邀請國際著名的學者，新加坡南洋理工大學哲學教授，李晨陽博士為主講人。

李晨陽教授（Prof. Chenyang Li），新加坡南洋理工大學哲學系主任，國際著名的中國哲學與中西比較哲學教授。李教授本科、硕士皆畢業于北京大學哲學系， 後在北京大學哲學系任教，于八十年代中期赴美，留學美國康乃狄格大学，師從比較哲學權威Joel J. Kupperman， 于1992年獲得哲學博士學位。

李教授1999-2010曾任教於美國中央華盛頓大學哲學系，並擔任教授、系主任。自2011年，李教授應聘到新加坡南洋理工大學人文與社會科學學院，負責創建哲學系。 李教授著作等身，已出版的書到目前爲止已有十三本代表，發表的論文更是不計其數。其代表作品 《道與西方的相遇:中西比較哲學重要問題研究》（The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony）。該書從價值體系的角度考察儒家傳統與自由的民主傳統的關係。李教授主張，這兩者應該是相互獨立而又可以共存的價值體系，而不主張像有些新儒家學者那樣，把二者揉合為一個“儒家民主”的價值體系。李教授在書中通過對“存在（是）”、“真（真理）”、“語言”、“女性思維”、“倫理”、“宗教”以及“價值”等基本概念的比較研究，來論證其價值體系的多元主義主張。李教授這本書是比較哲學的一個令人注目的成果。它對哲學的一些根本問題做出了富有洞察力的闡述，廣受國際儒學研究以及中西哲學比較研究的重視。

當天上午，李晨陽教授暨夫人在校長潘露莉博士和國際著名語言學博士羅仁地教授陪同下蒞臨中正學院NARRA校區，受到本校師生的熱烈歡迎。講座在校長潘露莉博士介紹主講人之後正式登場。

李教授指出中華文化博大精深，他即以本校校訓「禮義廉恥」為例，告訴在場學生，這是春秋時代管仲在《牧民》篇中提出的，挑明了禮義廉恥是興國立國的基礎，是中華文化傳統的精髓。更以清代大學者顧炎武對四維的注解，強調一個有節操的人應講廉恥，知廉恥是做人的基本道理，國家官員、領導人若無廉恥之心，那麼百姓也將失去道德尺寸，所謂不廉無恥，國家必亡。人之所以不廉，做出了悖禮犯義的行為都基於無恥，從之即可看出這四維的重要性。

中國文化講求的五倫、五常、四維、八德，儒、道、墨、法、釋各家學說或思想無不受到仁、義、禮、智、信，以及忠、孝、仁、愛、信、義、和、平等理念的影響。其中最受強調的當屬「孝」。李教授特別指出印度原始佛教並未強調「孝」，但是東傳中國之後，中國的佛教就融入了孝的觀念，只因自漢以來，中國人認為「孝」是各種德行中最重要的，所謂「百善孝為先」。此外，李教授更把儒、道、墨、法各家學說的中心思想做了深入淺出的詮釋，分析各家之所以興盛、式微的原因。而孔子紀錄了周禮並在周禮中加入了「仁」的思想，終於使「儒學」成為影響中國最大的學派。

中國傳統文化經李晨陽博士的闡述，讓在場師生更深入體悟了中華文化所具備之兼容並蓄和同化域外宗教文明的特性。最後，李教授以蔣中正先生1934年在南昌發起新生活運動時所說的：「禮義廉恥，國之四維，四維既張，國乃復興。」作為講座的結論。

高中部參加講座的同學，振筆疾書，記下重點，上了一堂極有價值的文化課。潘校長及時提醒並勉勵同學們要時時反思本校校訓「禮義廉恥」所蘊含的精神。最後由潘校長露莉博士代表校方贈送感謝狀予李晨陽教授，一場內容豐富的文化講座圓滿結束。

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1 潘露莉校長致贈李晨陽教授感謝狀

  右起前福師大海外教育學院院長沙平教授、 李晨陽教授、潘露莉校

  長、馬儷玲中文總主任、高中部中文聯繫人施純青老師

2 李晨陽教授

3講座上專心聽講的學生

(菲律濱中正學院訊) 2018年1月18日上午8：00，本校邀請了三位來自不同行業的業界精英，於五樓大禮堂內舉行了一次別開生面的人生規劃宣講會，本校高中部10年級和11、12年級理科班、文科班的全體學生聆聽了主講人的精彩分享，並與他們就做好今後的人生規劃進行了深入的探討。

首先出場進行經驗分享的是本校1997年度優秀校友楊心兒醫師（Dr. Millette H. Romualdez）。她是一名優秀的驗光師，曾獲全國光學政府會考第一名，現在計順市開設「Gold Heart Optical Centre金心光學中心」。她在分享中簡要地介紹了升入大學後不同的職業選擇，以及在職業選擇中學好中文的重要性，除此之外，她特意強調不論今後從事什麼職業，都要對所從事的工作充滿熱情，因為只有熱情才能夠使你不斷向前進步，最後她還強調了驗光對個人成長的重要性。

接著出場的是Dr. Carlo Magno，他是「菲律賓教育測量與評價協會Philippine Educational Measurement and Evaluation Association」現任會長，也是「菲律濱拉薩大學品質保證與評估中心Quality Assurance and Evaluation at De La Salle Araneta University」主任，並曾經擔任太平洋發展中國家教育顧問等職。Dr. Magno 先介紹了社會科學的分類，並詳細介紹了各個不同分類的相關背景及知識，以便學生們知道要想從事一項社會科學的工作必須具備哪些知識和能力。最後，他結合自己受教育部和SEAMEO INNOTECH委託，參與國家K-12教育改革計劃研究及政策制定的工作經歷，談到了作為一名教育心理學家為推動中小學課程發展所做的貢獻。

最後一位分享者蔡珍梅（Nellie Margaret S. Chua）校友，在中學學習期間，品學兼優，曾獲得愛心傑出學生獎，2007年畢業本校英文中學第一名、中文第二名，畢業拉薩大學電腦系MAGNA CUM LAUDE. 。她現在是Leapfroggr公司的軟體工程師，也是菲國著名的醫學軟件公司SeriousMD公司的軟體設計師及顧問，蔡珍梅校友還是一位有名的醫學統計學專家。和其他分享者一樣，蔡珍梅校友也分享了她的職業經驗和建議，並向學生們展示了她一直在做的一個電腦程式。

業界精英分享了他們的經驗和建議後，與會的學生們結合自己的感受，分別向他們提出了一些問題，每個分享者都耐心地一一做解答，幫助學生們解除了困惑，更加清楚地知道了今後做不同的選擇將會面臨的困難與問題。

宣講會結束前， 高中部輔導主任胡蕙蓮老師和學生生活總主任 Dr. Cristina A. Monsanto代表學校向分享嘉賓頒贈感謝狀以申謝意，學生們也用最熱烈的掌聲向他們表示感謝。

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(上排) 主講嘉賓：楊心兒校友、Dr. Carlo Magno 、 蔡珍梅校友

(下排) 胡蕙蓮主任(最左)、Monsanto總主任(最右)與3位受邀主講人

Victory!

Chiang Kai Shek College emerged victorious in the year 2017 as it has been granted level III accreditation status by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PPASCU), and has been awarded  the Excellence in Educational Transformation award (EETA) Outstanding Innovations in Leadership, Governance, and Management by the Bayan Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Development, Department of Education (DepEd), Rex Bookstore, and ABS-CBN station.

Following the accreditation for both grade school and high school, CKS College now has the authority to innovate without the need to seek approval from the DepEd Regional Office and is free from visitation, inspection, and supervision by DepEd representatives as mandated by DepEd Order no. 32, series of 2006.

In celebration of the school’s success, a feast was held in the CKS College gymnasium followed by a program in the auditorium on August 31. The event was graced with the presence of the college president, Dr. Dory Poa, members of the alumni association, current and former administrators, faculty and staff, and students.

             God does not roll dice; there is no such thing as a coincidence. At least, that was what I used to believe when my mother left my brothers and me. The pain of hearing a mother tell her children that they are useless in a world of chance, the pain of leaving us to my father and my grandmother—it was all unbearable. This was the time that I learned when to sleep late or worse, I never slept. I cried as I agonized in pain, and I asked God why these unfair circumstances. Although my mother told me never to run away from her, she was the one who estranged and distanced herself away from us.

            “When it rains, God is angry. He is sad, and all those rained upon have done evil to one another.” I never believed that God was the rain, but He was in the rain. God smiled upon us when rain poured down; He was saying that there is a rainbow after the rain, that there is beauty in chaos, and that there is bliss after every hardship toppled over, but why is it that after a long rainy day had passed, the next day yet poured another? Why is there a storm after a rainy day? I shouted my grief in rain, got down on my knees and cried a river. Father told me to bury the hatchet and forget all the memories I had spent with my mother, but pain opened the door for itself and had etched a mark in my heart.

            A wise person said that to travel to anew ocean, you must learn to leave the shore. The only things for you to bring are your attitude, your courage, and your will to forgive. The water that we sail on is the river of life, the river of chance, and the river of hardships. We must learn that the storm will pour because fate will keep on strengthening until we reach a sunny day and a safe harbor. I could never forget my mother because she was the ocean; she was the one who raised the tides. Now that I docked my ship on the shore, the ocean is now my ink for what I write. Although every vein in my body wishes to release my anger towards my mother, I myself can’t afford to do so. The woman that I had once hated was now a woman I adored in my memories. She was the woman who never returned albeit the promise to return.

            To you who I am writing this, how do you say those things left unsaid? Have you already found a way? Or is there pain that still remains in your heart? I have been searching for it myself, only to find out that I am lost.

            I wish I had lived my life to the fullest, and I wish you do so too.

                                                                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                                                                                    Me

             “He backs me up against the wall, his bloodshot eyes glowing in the darkness of the dingy alley. I squirm, I scream, but it is all in vain. His trembling hands, however shaky, grip me like iron. I have no choice but to stare into the depths of his eyes, and in the moonlight I see his flushed skin. Everything is a blur of pain, and soon I am screaming, shaking; everything is unbearable. Far off lights gleam in the distance, so far from my reach. Everything slowly grows fuliginous and faint, as I am unable to think. The last thing I feel through the endless pain is his hands. Nothing but hands, hands, hands everywhere. Then the darkness of the alley envelops my consciousness, and everything goes dark. I awake after an everlasting nightmare, to find my nightmare is far from over. I feel the soreness between my legs, I feel my teenage innocence being ripped from my grasp. I look around, the gravity of my situation not really sinking in. Then the memories, all of it- in all their horror- come rushing back to me, and I reel in disgust of what I have become. I have become an object, and it is as terrifying as I would have assumed it to be. His eyes are forever stuck in my memory, the feel of his greedy hands permanently imprinted into my skin- and as another wave of pure exhaustion comes, and I slip into unconsciousness.”

             This was narrated by a fourteen-year-old rape victim from Davao City. Her case is only one of the 885,445 crimes committed every year as of record. A study shows that for every three children in the Philippines, one suffers from sexual and/or physical abuse. According to the National Demographic Health Survey, one in five women aged 15-49 have experienced physical violence since age fifteen, 14.4 percent of married women have experienced physical abuse from their husbands, and more than 37% of separated women are victims of exploitation. The causers of these horrors? Drug users.

             The Philippine National Police may be doing their bests to eradicate these criminals from the Philippines, but they cannot do it fully without support from the citizens of the country. We all know that this has to stop. We can’t let this happen forever. More and more lives are being affected every day, and although we claim to have nothing to do with it, it is in fact our fault that we are not taking action. Innocence is no longer something you will find in youth today. However, people are so unaware that girls are being ripped from the childhoods they deserve, that they need to have.

             No child should grow with abuse. It is important to the mental and physical health of every kid to have a happy childhood. It is the basis for something greater. We have to take in consideration that these kids are the future of our country, and it is not right to have them affected and abused. Take for example Adolf Hitler, who had such a violent early life that his experiences as being an abused and put down youngster led him to affect the lives of millions. Do we want that to happen again?

             Quoting from the 2006 movie “The Departed”, Jack Nicholson says, “I don’t want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.” It is the responsibility of every student and citizen to make sure the Philippines, their environment, a better place. Who would want to live unsafely and uncomfortably? To do this, people will need to become vigilant. Being vigilant means knowing what’s happening in the community and staying informed on the latest violent happenings in the country. It also means being keen for danger and staying alert at all times. Let us all solemnly remember that one of these girls could be our very own child. Anything can happen, and by being careful, we can prevent anything horrible from happening. Anyone can help, even in the littlest ways. It is especially hard for the millennials, since they are unable to do many things- but it is possible to help in the PNP’s Anti-Illegal Drug Campaign.

             “Whoever controls the media, controls the minds,” says Jim Morrison. Media is now one of the most booming businesses in the world, and it is also so influential that the public’s opinion depends on it. As much as youth should be careful with what they believe in, social networking and blogging is a popular way to express oneself in today’s fast-paced style of living. Once they have grasped the media, they have basically already convinced people. As the great Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” The majority of the population is so ignorant to what is happening that the PNP and other government organizations are in the fight alone. Media can motivate people to action and the reality is, even the strongest people need help. Their helpers just could be the youth of this generation.

             As Dan Buettner said, “The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.” Another thing that is important is being a good role model. Slowly but surely, more minds will be focused on doing good and productive things rather than crimes. Birds of the same feather flock together, and a busy mind is a happy one. Joining school organizations and encouraging their peers to do the same is something small that could make a big change. “Little things make big things happen.” In this situation, this may very well be true.

             “I was never the same. My life was changed forever, and I am eternally scarred. The horrific experience is something I shall never forget, which is a tragedy- because I would do absolutely anything to erase the memory from my mind,” said the fourteen-year-old.

             There are thousands like her, and we can surely bring those numbers down by doing simple things. It is not an option to remain ignorant. Again, these teenagers are the future of our country. Let’s all make the world a safer place, and for future generations to come.

            Pure mayhem as people are forbidden from coming home, are labeled as terrorists, are banned from seeking refuge, and are made to either wait or look for a temporary residence without prior notice.

            This was what the United States looked like when President Donald Trump banned citizens from seven countries from entering the country. He believes that forcing people to stay away from his land of rule just because they’re Muslims by faith would result to a terror-free future. Hooray for racism!

            The person you’d wave hello to, live next to, is friends with – forced out because of his or her religion and race by a racist, homophobic, chauvinist.

            Now, even refugees from war-stricken places are prohibited from entering the country for four months by the president. These people struck by terror are denied protection because they themselves might bring it upon the poor, scared, helpless Americans.

            Is this really the right way to spread injustice and make people suffer? Is it best to judge a group of innocent people who are the very victims of violence by some despicable human being?

            As the ruler of the most powerful country in the world, Donald Trump is, so far, doing an awful job. He spreads racism across the country using unnecessary measures in his lousy, ineffective way of making America great again.

            Instead of making citizens feel safe, Trump seems to be going the other way around. He has duties and responsibilities as the president which he should do in a careful style and not in a reckless, instantaneous method, and yet he is doing the latter.

            This new hero is bent on eradicating terrorism in his country. He hasn’t even realized who the biggest terrorist is and that is himself.