Feedback to Teacher David Temple's Presentation

Teacher David is from Brooklyn, New York. There are four children in his family. He has ancestors from Russia and Austria, and he is proud of his grandfather who fought for workers' rights. His belief is Judaism. After undergraduate work in college in San Francisco, he came to Taiwan to learn Mandarin. While here, he taught English in a cram school and found that he enjoyed teaching He got married and moved back to the U.S. to get his teacher's licence and teach. He came back after four years and taught in Taiwan. However, he divorced his first wife who was acting like his boss and, with his three children returned to Brooklyn to start teaching immigrants at a high school. He had met his second wife in Taiwan and married her later in New York. After his retirement in 2012, Teacher David came back to Taiwan. he still teaches part-time. He not only would like his students to learn English but also use the media to connect with the world. 

We have learned a lot from this presentation. First, it was a precious chance to practice our English and try to speak out. Although we aren't yet fluent in English, Teacher David still listened to our opinions patiently. It was a wonderful experience for us to communicate in English and be so confident. 

Secondly, Teacher David taught that if we "Read the world, the world will read us." We have to concern ourselves with events that occur inside and outside of Taiwan and be connected with the 
world. When you start to care about the world, the world will listen to your opinions. We kinow that we should take action and express our appeals.

In our discussion, we talked about discrimination and stereotypes which hinder women from developing to their potential. Teacher David told us that we have to speak out for our own rights and make these stereotypes get out of peoples' minds. We st6rongly agree with that, and it encourages us to advance and be brave to speak out.

We appreciate this meaningful presentation. We thank Teacher David for giving us this chance to have a different experience. 

After experiencing this presentation,we understand that if we want to improve our English ability, we should talk with others face to face; not rely on book learning.

Teacher David asked ouyr group a question during break time: "How do you learn English in your classes? Can you have a discussion like thios with your teachers and classmates?" 
Our answer was "no." It uisa bewcause we are not allowed to speak English freely in class. If one does so, his or her name is registered on the blackboard and be punished. In this way, we feel that Teacher David's idea of free discussion is less boring and more useful to practicing the English that we lhave learned. After all, language is a tool for chatting and reading the world, isn't it

 At the start of the presentation, Teacher David remarked he noticed people in Taiwan like to wear t-shirts  which express phrases in English rnd foreign place names, but he didn't know why it was so.
We think there are two reasons: First, since Taiwanese don't have a local reality of cultural pride, dominant cultures, like Chinese or American, proliferate . Fewer and fewer people pay attention to our own society. Second, people are caught up in the mainstream culture to much to consider why they wear the words on their t-shirts that they do; they just follow the trend. 

In Teacher David's presentation, he mentioned the "indomitable" direct our effort must take, such as in questioning why women's wages are less then men's . His solution was illustrated in the Chinese idiom: Bu-qu-bu-nau, which means, "never give up."
If women and other sectors of the common people in society don't step forward bravely and fight for their just causes, one one can break ther status quo.