中興湖裝置藝術[育]

Script: 育／Education

*Announcer: Boys and Girls. The sculpture before you is titled “Education.” Why education? To make it clear to you, we put together a skit, presented by ducks living nearby. Enjoy it.

--Ducky Duck: Ai ya ya. . . . I don’t wanna go back to the classroom. I don’t like math. I don’t like English. I just wanna hang out here, enjoying the sunshine, and the water in the pond.

++Yellow Duck: So, you are here, Ducky Duck. Teacher is asking for you. She sent me here to get you. What are you up to here?

--Can’t you see I’m having fun in the sun? Go tell Teacher I’m not going back to the classroom. I don’t like school. I don’t wanna learn. I just wanna play all day.

++OK. You can play all day, doing nothing. But, in the middle of your play, you’ll get hungry, right? Where is your meal?

--My Mom will cook for me.

++But your Mom will get old and die someday. After that, who gonna cook for you?

--Well, I’ll be old enough then and I’ll cook for myself.

++You will cook for yourself. But what to cook? First of all, you need to do grocery shopping. The problem is: who gonna give you money to do so?

--. . . . . .Well, well, I don’t know.

++Good for you that you don’t know. The answer is in the classroom. Classroom. Get it? Classroom means education. Now, let’s go see our teacher.

--After you.

小知識:

陳清義，臺灣屏東人，生於民國十七年（1928），卒於民國八十六年（1997）。民國三十六年（1947）考入臺灣省立農學院農藝系，畢業後任教農校，後來應聘回母校擔任講師，並升任副教授。以國科會獎學金赴日本留學，獲九州大學農學博士學位，再返回母校任教，先後擔任植物系主任、臺中夜間部主任。

民國七十七年（1988）出任國立中興大學校長，成為建校七十年來第一位校友出身的校長。任內鑑於很多系館破舊，使用空間不足，乃展開繼羅雲平校長後又一波擴建工程，包括農業環境科學大樓、農業機械大樓、作物科學大樓、理學院大樓、綜合教學大樓、生命科學大樓、土木環工大樓、惠蓀堂等，以及忠明南路地下道工程。

此外，開發研究用自動儀器，促進實驗自動化。加強校際交流，與國外三十五所著名大學建立學術合作與交流。增設歷史研究所、中文研究所、外文研究所，文學院發展獲關鍵性突破，使中興大學更富人文色彩及綜合大學規模。

兩屆校長任期滿後即回植物系所任教。民國八十五年（1996）榮獲中興大學第一屆傑出校友。

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