Teachers, parents, students:
Good morning! I am now speaking on behalf of myself and Chien-Wei Lee’s mom.
Thank you to Curionesty College for organizing such a ceremony to commemorate and inspire our children’s growth. Today’s ceremony signifies that our children have grown up, and we are pleased about that.
Raising children requires a great deal of effort from parents, as well as from various parties such as the school and the community. The teachers at Curious have been putting in a lot of energy, effort and dedication in the last few years, for which we are very grateful!
As parents, we have witnessed and experienced a lot during the four years that our children have been attending Curionesty College. What I appreciate most about Curiosity is its spirit of defying hardships and being good at making changes. Curiosity moves forward through ups and downs, and our children grow through experience. Over the past few years, our Qianwei has changed from a timid and crying little girl to a brave, strong, hardworking, opinionated and understanding big girl. I think that in the important stage of life of adolescence, encountering such an environment and a group of young and progressive teachers, the child’s gains are enormous. When the child talked to us, she also expressed her gratitude for coming to Curious and the impact it has brought to her. We noticed that the child always said that she wanted to talk to Ji Xiao first when she had a big problem. During the teachers’ home visit, we also saw that she had posted a final letter from Ms. Zhang Xu on the wall of her room. The word she used most often when talking about each of her curious teachers was “good”. We have a deep sense that children are loved and supported here. It is clear that when a child feels loved, it is also when she is determined to love and learn how to love. We believe that she has realized something about the relationship between individual life and the world.
In fact, human growth is a lifelong learning process in which there is no specific point in time to mark the completion of the process. Confucius said, “When we learn the Way, we can die at the end of the day”. That means that we are in the process of growth until the end of our lives, and it is never too late. From this perspective, today’s ceremony is just a symbol that reminds us not to forget the growth of life. As the seventeen year old stands, we see all of her past. It is not a stand-alone moment, but an accumulation of all the times in the past. From this perspective, today’s ceremony also reminds us that every moment of life is equally important, that yesterday made today, and today influences tomorrow, so that how life will be in the future really depends on the choices we make and the actions we take in the present.
As growing beings, we don’t dare to say that we have much to teach our children, but we just share some of our own insights with you and look forward to hearing from you more often. Chien-Wei, in the process of raising you, we often feel how blessed we are to raise a child, and how happy we are to accompany the growth of a life. You have truly made us want to raise many, many children. From your experiences over the past seventeen years, you are fully capable of pursuing your own life and living it to the fullest. You are free to just go and fly! As parents, our only charge is this: remember, whether you are seventeen or seventy, you will always be our most loving daughter. No matter how far you go, we are at your back. Wherever you go, our hearts are there.
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