Archive for June, 2008
Runner Fan
Monday, June 9th, 2008Runner Fan is not a person’s real name, but a nickname, a negative meaning. He got that for his inact to protect teenage students when the earthquake happened. Without proper warning and guidance, he just said the word earthquake and ran away. That is why he is called Runner Fan.
A Beijing University graduate majoring history who left Uni for 10 years, Fan was a failure under comon standard to be in his present place, a temporary teacher, because Beijing University is the top art-subjected university in China.
He seemed living in pain under current education system that only request good marks to enter university after 12 years’ study, and he hated hypocrite moral lecturing that exist in society. Simply he wanted freedom of choice. For instance, he wanted the choice to live, rather than to die for students. He would never die for anyone else including his mother who gave him his life, but his little daughter.
Runner Fan, to warn students of the earthquake would not cost your life. It only test your heart. I don’t know whether i could criticise Fan of his being selfish. I know he would categorize me as hypocrite. But still, I have to say Runner Fan, you failed your students’ expectations, and teaching is not suitable job for you.
This man loves to be in America, or maybe UK and the Europe, where he regards free and liberal. I doubt he got it right, because in America, many teachers help and die for students. Is he a Chinese Patient?

