Page One Academy: 12/30/07

院长的话 The History of Page One

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

~ 11:15 AM ~

启页美术学院，从一位老师，一张桌子，三位学生，到目前的约二十位教师，一千两百位学生，我们走过了漫长的十五个年头，有许多学生，从四岁便跟随我学画画，也有些学生的父母曾经是我的学生。孩子的创作，是他们本身潜在的知识和特质，按他们的生理和心理发育而成长，孩子的绘画，犹如一颗种子，它需要充足的阳光、水份、空气和肥沃的土壤，才能按自然程序地成长。我们不可能在他还是一颗种子的时候，要求他省略幼苗的阶段，直接变成小树，又或者在他还未茁壮成长的时候，要求它开花结果。

我们看到有许多家长逐渐重视五育中的美育，了解美育的启智，亦能启德。许多家长开始收集孩子的绘画作品，以观察及研究孩子成长的心路历程。

很庆幸家长们愿意随着资讯的进步而做出改变。更希望我们的社会能放眼全球化的发展，放眼世界，而不再只是关心眼前的名次与成绩，或者是小区域的潮流。多关心孩子的内心世界，和真正属于他们的创作，而不是只重视成品或外在的技巧与色彩。

最后，我祝福大家身体健康，并且伴随孩子天天快乐成长。

院长，胡牡丹

Page One Academy started with a teacher, a table and three students fifteen years back. We have come a long way and today, we have about twenty teachers and one thousand two hundred students. Many students have been with Page One since the age of four and even their parents were my former students!

Children’s artworks reflect their potential knowledge, characteristics and attributes, which grow with their physical and mental development. We may draw an analogy between the development of children’s drawing skills and the seedling. Both need to be nurtured and nourished. Seedling needs nourishment of sunshine, water, air and fertile soil to grow while children need attention, care and encouragement to go further, we just can’t skip this “seedling” stage and expect it to bloom or even become a tree overnight.

It is very encouraging to see many parents begin to look at art education seriously nowadays. They begin to understand that art helps stimulate children’s interests in acquiring knowledge and cultivate enquiring minds; build perseverance and confidence as well as moral values. Thus many parents begin to collect their children’s artwork and drawing in order to learn about their children’s mind thereof.

While art education has become one of the major developments in many developed societies in international context, it is great to note the awareness among the parents. We do hope that our society will be more opened to this globalized development whereby academic achievement and school exam results are no longer everything or rather the end of the world. Let’s move beyond to pay more attention to our children’s inner mind through their artworks, and not just appreciate their artworks from the outlook.

Principal, Oh Moo Tan

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