Yudong Junior High carpentry students chipping out a better future

Unlike most students, whose lives are weighed down with piles of textbooks, the students of Yudong Junior High carpentry class in Yuli Township spend their after-school and holiday time in the carpentry classroom making furniture. The students hope to turn their lives around through the sweat of their own brow.

Traditional Eastern education tends to spoon-feed children and fill them full of book-knowledge. However, students at Yudong Junior High take part in hands-on engraving and furniture-making projects outside the usual coursework, which teach many things you can’t learn from books. Yudong Junior High, which has been dedicated to its carpentry class for over a decade now, hopes the public will give more attention and support to the aspirations of children from rural areas of Taiwan.

以下中文對照

不同於一般國中生被教科書填滿的生活，位在花蓮縣玉里鎮的玉東國中木工班孩子就利用下課與放假的時間，到木工教室去製作各式的木製家具，希望能用自己的雙手翻轉未來、走出偏鄉。

傳統的填鴨式教育，教給孩子的是書本上的知識，但玉東國中木工班的孩子在原有的課業之外，透過一筆一劃的雕刻、一件件家具的製作，學習到了在課本上沒有教的東西。玉東國中木工班創立已經有超過十年的歷史，他們未來將持續努力，也希望大家能夠多多關注，一起支持這些孩子的夢想之路。

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