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2008.0428
The Kid Who Refused JCEE 36 Years Ago Encourages NTNU Geography Students to Explore the World Today
<p><font face="Arial">By Diana Meng<br />
Campus Reporter</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Brian Wu (吳祥輝), the writer who was renowned for his “The Kid Who Refused the Joint College Entrance Exam” nearly 36 years ago, encouraged Geography students to travel more and explore the world during his speech at the annual Geography Lecture today.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">"We will understand a foreign culture, history and society better and faster through traveling. Also, we will be inspire by those fresh ideas we see and experience in a foreign country, which can be a role model for our own beloved mother soil,” Wu said.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Wu graduate from Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School in 1972 but he refused to take the Joint College Entrance Exam for continuing his college education. In 1975, he wrote the book “The Kid Who Refused the Joint College Entrance Exam,” which was then made into a film in 1979 and became famous.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">He also wrote Finland Unveiled in 2006 and Ireland: Exclamation Mark in 2007. These two books feature Finland and Ireland and were also the center of discussions during Wu’s speech today.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Wu said that various geographic features would cultivate and develop a country which would make the country what it is today. From his study on Finland and Ireland, he said that Finland’s high quality education system, clean government and Ireland’s literature and boosting economics can all be role models for Taiwanese people to follow.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">"We surely can generate new concept and new idea through this,” he said.</font></p>
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