Teacher Yu believes: "For public welfare, what we ultimately truly obtain may not lie in any thinking or construction, but in those moments of mutual understanding, in the most sincere feedback established between people and between people and the world. At the first club class of each semester, I always tell the students that I hope one day, no matter which teacher or which students are involved, there will still be a group of people doing the same thing by the Dian Lake in Zhujiagang."
From chance to certainty, from the original aspiration to deep commitment, this group of teenagers responded to the "Seven Questions" raised by their instructor Yu Shuming with their actions:
● Are we really "accomplishing something" or "meeting someone"? When there is no applause or feedback, will we still continue?
● In every interaction with our autistic friends, are we "accomplishing something" or "meeting someone"? Do we truly realize the difference between these two states?
● Compared with other disadvantaged groups, when we offer our help and make efforts, autistic friends may not give effective responses or any responses at all. How will we judge the "meaning" of what we do? When there is no applause or feedback, will we still continue?
● As high school students in an international school with a relatively high degree of freedom, we sometimes still find it hard to balance our time and energy. When we move from school to society and devote ourselves to public welfare for a long time, this contradiction will become more prominent. How will we deal with it?
● Public welfare has an inherent long-term nature. In a sense, good public welfare should be "connected into a line". How should we maintain a long-term mindset to do a small act of public welfare well for a long time?
● We have an instinctive compassion for disadvantaged groups. But on the path of humanistic public welfare, how will we ultimately take the leap and "put ourselves in", rather than more out of sympathy or an unconscious sense of superiority?
● How do we experience "people" and their existence in the process of doing public welfare?
These questions have no standard answers, but they guide every step forward.