{"id":6686,"date":"2016-07-27T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecornel.pro4.designworks.tw\/en\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:25:31","slug":"a-twenty-five-year-experiment%ef%bc%8d2-the-red-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/en\/a-twenty-five-year-experiment%ef%bc%8d2-the-red-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twenty-Five Year Experiment\uff0d2 The Red Tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-288b96211708cf6869b9675705340741\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-288b96211708cf6869b9675705340741 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-288b96211708cf6869b9675705340741 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-288b96211708cf6869b9675705340741 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-6687 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-6687 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC_3458-e1597215859110.jpg\" alt='' title='DSC_3458'  height=\"800\" width=\"533\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-5ac4df2533708bdfa64fb372dd4db4dc\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-5ac4df2533708bdfa64fb372dd4db4dc{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-5ac4df2533708bdfa64fb372dd4db4dc .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-5ac4df2533708bdfa64fb372dd4db4dc .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-5ac4df2533708bdfa64fb372dd4db4dc av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >A Twenty-Five Year Experiment\uff0d2<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-2a62c023f21cae9693698256f6479e5c\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-2a62c023f21cae9693698256f6479e5c{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-2a62c023f21cae9693698256f6479e5c .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-2a62c023f21cae9693698256f6479e5c .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-2a62c023f21cae9693698256f6479e5c av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >The Red Tapes<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Amazingly, my small home school grew rapidly. Everyday there were people knocking at the door to secure a place in our program. It was funny that some parents signed their child up just because they heard Kang speaking English fluently with me all the time. They assumed that I married an American man because Kang looked like an American boy. In two years, our small home school had grown out of our living room and we needed to make a move. Since I never would want to run it as a business, I plowed all the tuition that we collected from the students back into the school. Without making any advertisement, the enrollment continued to grow. In ten years we moved five times in order to get a larger space. It was a blessing to get more students than I expected, but it was a pain to deal with all the red tape every time when we made the move.<\/p>\n<p>As an ordinary citizen, I never believed that the bureaucracy could be so overwhelming. When we moved out of our living room, I applied for a license. The government official picked on everything I handed in and just simply turned down our application. One of the reasons she used was that we couldn\u2019t use the name \u2018Community English School\u2019 because community was not a proper noun and couldn\u2019t be used as a school name. I had no choice but to change the name to Cornell quickly, but she turned it down again because Cornell didn\u2019t sound like a Chinese name. According to the law at that time, it was not allowed to use a foreign name as a school\u2019s name. Fortunately, she never knew that there was a university called Cornell at that time, so I just told her I used my son\u2019s name which sounded like Cornell.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we got a name and we continued to use Cornell until one day in 1995 I received a letter from Cornell University. It requested us to change the name because they didn\u2019t want the public to think that they also offered kindergarten education in Taiwan. Again, we had no choice but to change the name. It was definitely a bother and it was hard to change the name since we had built up our reputation under that name. How could we rename ourselves without losing the popularity? Fortunately, my plant pathologist husband, Shyi-Dong was smart enough. He told me to drop one letter \u2018l\u2019 out of Cornell and keep the rest. The new name still sounded like Cornell and looked like Cornell but it had another beautiful meaning. It means cherry tree. This was one of the episodes in the history of the school but it explained how famous we were in 1995. Even the Cornell University was cautious about our existence.<\/p>\n<p>The art of dealing with government officials was another thing I learned. As a small potato, I never got my work done the way I wanted. There were many times I had the impulse to twist their necks because they treated me like an idiot. Many people told me that money talks. However, how could I bribe them if I wanted to keep my integrity? There is a saying in Chinese: Water can drip through a stone. Yes, acting like water, slowly but gradually, I finally touched those officials\u2019 hearts and they became my friends. 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