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I am the youngest of five children in a Chinese family. My father was deprived of a high school education because he needed to help my grandfather’s family business. During my father’s childhood living in a small village in Southern Taiwan, it was very common that children were not encouraged to seek education beyond the elementary school level, as the few high schools in the country were located many miles away and because the financial needs of the families had precedence. However, my father was a self-educated man. While learning how to run a business from my grandfather, he somehow got hold of a copy of Analects of Confucius (Lúnyû), a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries. My father believed in the essence of the Confucian teaching that students should become ethically wellcultivated men. They should be devoted to their parents and older siblings and should carry themselves with dignity, and embody integrity and virtues in all things. When my father did not understand the words in Lúnyû, he would look them up in the dictionary. When the meaning of the sentences confounded him, he would stop by to see his teachers at the elementary school for clarification. Those teachers, realizing my father’s thirst for learning, voluntarily tutored him at nights in other subjects taught at the high school level: mathematics, geography, history, and Chinese literature. However, I believe that it was Confucius’ teachings that had shaped what my father was: a man who was disciplined, diligent, and respectful of parents; one who listened more and spoke less, and, above all, who held a deep reverence and admiration for scholars and a strong belief in the value of education. Desiring to provide his children with the opportunity for a higher education that he never had, he moved our family to Tainan, a large city in Southern Taiwan, after my first elder sister was born. However, the schools were still miles away from where we lived. I vividly remember my father accompanying me to my first day of junior high school, both of us on a single bicycle making the journey on a blazingly hot September day. He did the pedaling while I sat on the steel bar between the bicycle seat and the handles. I remember hearing his labored breathing from pedaling uphill on gravel roads and feeling his hot sweat drip on my neck. I sensed his dreams and hopes for me to become a scholar were there in each labored push of the bicycle pedals on that blazing hot day. I will never forget that day and know that whatever I have accomplished professionally, I owe to my father’s values and the model he set. To attend a good college in Taiwan at my time, a person had to pass the highly competitive entrance examinations. High school students worked long and hard to prepare for the entrance examinations. However, there was a prestigious award system bestowed in a few high schools in Taiwan whose students had a track record of high scores on the entrance examinations. These schools were allotted a certain number of students who could enter the best universities without having to take

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