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RADMU Superintendent Wang Jhao-Jyui |
| Chinese people have always
had a long ocean culture. You can find the remains of ocean
activities from ancient times. It has gone through many developments
and innovations throughout each century, and it had finally
reached a peak during the Ming dynasty. In the 3rd year of Emperor
Yongle in Ming Dynasty(1405),Admiral Zheng He had led the navy’s enormous
fleet sailing on the south east Asia waters with technology
more superior than Europe and with a majestic appearance. He
had also led the fleet's travels between the South China Sea
and Indian Ocean 7 times. During these travels, he had even
reached the East African coastline. During his lifetime, he
had visited more than 30 countries, and his magnificent voyage
was done 100 years before Christopher Columbus set out to sea
with his Spanish fleet. Also, his voyage was done 80 years prior
to the traveler Vasco, da Gama, who led the Spanish fleet in discovering
The Cape of Good Hope and the passage to the Indian Ocean. What
he had achieved was never been reached by anyone else in history,
and he had created an evolution from experiences with his adventures,
courage of facing the unknown, and the spirit of conquering
nature. This should cause us to make in-depth thoughts and keep
in mind why we are unable to maintain our superioty on the sea
and how our own people destroyed the powerful navy we had
once owned. |
| Our academy was established in Shanghai
in 1946. We have successfully
carried on the responsibilities on education, and we have also
produced the good fruits out of our students. We have truly
raised the first class talented people for protecting the rights
of our seas and frontiers, and also strengthened our defenses
to construct a first class navy. We have contributed a splendid
result in academic studies and combat training. We have also
won praises and affirmatives world-wide. The result is gained
not only from the effects of past superintendents, faculties and students
in the academy, but it is also the result of their sacrifices.
However, we are living in the 21st century, which is a time
that the center of economy has shifted from the Atlantic to
the Pacific countries. As our overall economical power is increase,
our strategical position is changed also. Further, the economical
prosperity and the national security in the future will be closely
related to the “Thalassocracy.” Thus, the Pacific era is guided
by the development of Thalassocracy to become the new age of
Thalassocracy. It also means that the entire people will be
heading towards the new century of the ocean. Therefore, in
order to protect the safety of our country and effectively control
the Integration strength of the ocean as well as keep superior
navy forces, we must build up the navy and increase overall
strength to become the best shield for maintaining Thalassocracy,
which is the path we should head towards in mutual acknowledgement. |
| However, as we have known, besides
the meaning of controling the ocean, Thalassocracy also includes
the exploitation of ocean, which is an integration of ocean engineering,
ocean transportation, ocean policies, ocean management,
sea laws and related hardware development to combine with the
military for becoming a united power. Although we are breeding
the talented people to control the ocean, we are also
facing the challenges in this new century on the subject
of satisfying the needs for the society from our
academic studies. It is a very important issue because there
are many colleges and universities in our society. It's also
important to figure out how to promote superior competition
abilities and how the chain of command will affect our forces
after when we switch from conscription to voluntarism. This
should be fully planned with foresightedness. It is more important for the plans
of sustainable development, which includes the developmental
goals, personnel training, and assets of utilization. That is
why there are many century old companies and schools in U.S
or Europe. Although the time and environment is different, from
history, Jheng He’s ocean trading business somehow didn’t adhere
to this principle, resulting in a sad end, which should be always
kept in our minds and used as a reference in the future. In past
years, because the faculties, students and officers in all levels,
cadre, united together and worked very hard
to make an honorable records and a good name for our school. Now
it is a new school year, as we look the
development of our nation, the direction of the expansion of
our navy, and the changing of our environment, we will write
the plans for development of the R.O.C Naval academy in the years of 2008~2017, which will become the guidance for the development
of our school affairs. The following shows the main points of
the plan: |
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| 1. Advance military officers’ full-scale
education and promote the professional skills for the
noncommissioned officers Our faculties are all dedicated in
their teachings, our equipment is new and up-to-date. Besides, we
have a well-equiped living facilities that will help us to cultivate
capable commissioned and noncommissioned officers.
The main points of developing and educating the future officers
are set on the promotion of the students’ core values, the completion
of professional skills, sharpening the intelligence of leaders,
training for a stronger body, a strict military
discipline, and the deepening of an anchored spirit. So, we provide facilitation to the students
in obtaining the certificates that are related to their work,
which makes them competent and happy at work. We
hope to turn them into the backbone of the navy. |
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| 2.Promote the quality and quantity
of moral education. For many years, we have concentrated our effects on improving moral
education. Currently we have made the
“moral education implementation plan.” which integrates the
resources and people from the Brigade of Midshipmen, General Education
Center, and the Office of Student Affairs. This education will be practiced through class
discussions, seminars, home visits
, essays, academic research meetings creating a moral
atmosphere in the school, using school voluntary service to replace
punishment, and diversified recessive education. We will continue
to improve our methods in order to increase the outcome of
character education. |
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| 3.Build up a strong body, and strengthen
the students’ will in facing dangers and resistance The military
is bearing a great responsibility for protecting the people,
and therefore building a strong body has become a soldier’s
basic duty. Because an officer is a role model for
soldiers, therefore all the training plans in the school are
focusing on active training for the students’ bodies. Each month
there will be a physical examination, and the students who have
passed the test will help the failing students to reach the
standard. Through the help and caring from the fellow classmates,
the students will be able to increase their body strength. We
require all of the students to pass the goal before the end
of grade 2 in order to prepare for the difficult physical training
lying ahead. |
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| 4.Improve the schools’ overall quality of education.
The Higher Education
Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan is commissioned
by the Ministry of education to take charge of the evaluating
of the colleges in a period of 5 years. Military and police
academies are also on the list of evaluation. In order
to absorb the experiences of other schools,
we sent people to visit the National Taiwan
Ocean University, Tamkang University, and Tunghai University
in December of 2007. Then, we actively prepared self
evaluation for each department.
This year we will establish the special office for evaluation on the first floor of the library.
It will be mainly responsible for the job of preparation for
integrating the school’s units for the evaluation. Then, after
the department and school evaluations are ended, we
are able to improve our teaching, studies, services,
counseling and administration. |
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| 5.Be aggressive in promoting engineering accreditation,
and department’s international status. In order to follow
a worldwide trend for higher education development, the Institute
of Engineering Education in Taiwan (IEET) has represented our
government to become the formal signatory in the Washington
Accord during the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Washington Accord
signatories in June 20, 2007. Students who graduate in engineering of our school will be accredited by the IEET and
the member countries in the Washington Accord. Therefore,
our school has sent some representatives of the oceanography department
to the “Authentication of Engineering and Technology
Education ” hosted by the Institute of Engineering Education
Taiwan. Then, each year we will promote the engineering accreditation
from other departments, so our education quality can measure up to
the international standard. |
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| 6.Encourage teachers to research on the field related to the navy.
Each teacher has his own specialty. If they can combine their academic researches
with the needs of the navy, they'll contribute more
to the navy and school in many ways.The opinions out of their professional knowledge may be very helpful to
the development of their own department or the school.
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7.Reinforce the school-ship exchange program.Since
2006, war ships 124、151 and 192 have carried out this program.
The faculties from each department
traveled by ship. They interviewed the officers on ship to know
their thoughts in the service,
and then submitted written reports after
returning to school. Their reports became a reference materials for our
school’s reformation and teachers' advancement. Up to now
each professor has boarded at least one time. The same program will be carried out again in June
of this year. I hope it will benefit all departments when being evaluated. |
| I decided to make a new start in this year.
I hope we can collect more valuable experiences and
wisdom for the future education so that we can continue to make
our school the cradle of outstanding leaders in
the navy.
The 7 points above show the future plan for our school.
They are our long-term goals. I hope my colleagues
can fulfill them with a passion to make the Naval Academy better.
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