An article from Business Weekly- reflection

Quickly scan through the article, it gave me a good chance to share some reflection. almost 9 months here, I continue to question myself what things I learnt from the TW education system.

I found it's a bit hard for me to figure out this answer. But one thing I found I did not learn well from the past learning experience is about ' being critical thinking'. Having a critical eye is not about criticizing something that we do not agree with. It's more about how we provide enough evidence to support our argument. The evidence here basically comes from broad reading.
Perhaps some TW friends may say, we read a lot of books. But the question is how we critically read them and transform them into the rationale of our thought. another concern is that what quality of books we have read. Yeah..perhaps u may say i post sth too serious, and u may think i may be struggling a lot for my dissertation, so that I reflect this kind of view.



http://www.businessweekly.com.tw/KBlogArticle.aspx?id=3800&pnumber=6

reflection 1 during a period of dissertation writing

看越多書(international publication)，越來越不清楚我身為台灣人的立足點在哪？光是看East Asia Mircle的相關書，台灣也只是被稍稍討論，更別說廣範的討論台灣的政經書籍，國際上是少的可以數出來吧。我想這一方面的問題是來自國際上的政治壓力，所以得另尋其他字眼，才比較可能有一線曙光。但另一方面，我想台灣的相關主管單位應該要想想，為何'台灣'二字在國際學術界上所發表或所被引用的也是少的可憐？

光是我以一位學生身份想要研究台灣社福政策，在過去的兩個多月，我的鼻子不知是碰了多少灰，可能我個人不夠積極, 也可能我找錯了門路，更可能是台灣政府的發展重心並不是在 international development的相關領域。這過往兩個月的經驗，讓我上了寶貴的一課-認識台灣。

特別是台灣政府的accountability, transparency 並沒有我想像中做的比其他發展中的國家好多少，顯然是我高估了公部門的行政管理能力。因為連立委、教授都無法拿到的政府所該公開的資訊，我想這真的不知該用何來形容。


當許多政官人員在大聲說要讓世界看到台灣時，特別是針對教育這塊，我坦白說我看不到具體的成效。
產官學界的合作很重要，但是實質上又是做到了什麼的程度，我給了個問號？


真的，這是一條難走的路…希望我可以堅持下去