Some Taiwanese are militantly ignorant. These are the people who believe that the less they know the happier they will be, as in they won't hear irony in the phrase "ignorance is bliss." It's something they That explains why
a person like Liu Hsi-cheng (
劉習正) could become a high school history teacher and yet help students organize and promote
a Nazi parade at his school. What is really disturbing is that this dumbass had the gall to ask for a second chance by blaming his students: "[Liu] said his students deeply regret their actions and believe that the
entire class should take the blame because they made a collective
decision to dress as Nazis." Yeah, I was just following my students decision to do something stupid? If school were really a democracy students would vote to decide what scores their teachers could give them. They'd vote to determine which textbooks their teachers used, etc. Point is: school isn't a democracy, it's an authoritarian regime with teachers being, hopefully, wise and even-handed dictators. On the other hand, the country was ruled for nearly half a century by a fascist one-party government...And no, the KMT didn't really care for stuff like history or philosophy. Education was, and to a large extent still is, science and technology-oriented. The result? Shit like this.
That is all.
