By Xu Yuyao, People\u2019s Daily<\/p>\n
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Fine art is bringing new possibilities to students in China\u2019s Tibet autonomous region.<\/p>\n
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Thanks to Gao Qunbin, an art teacher from Shanghai volunteering to teach at the Shanghai Experimental School in Shigatse, southwest China\u2019s Tibet autonomous region, several students of the school have passed the entrance exams for art academies this year and are ready to go to colleges, which had never happened in the school\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
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In an activity room, extra-curricular fine art lessons are given by Gao at noon and evening every day and on each weekend.<\/p>\n
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However, the man was questioned a lot when he first started the classes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cCan painting pay the bills?\u201d That was a question he was always asked back then, because no one of the school had ever been admitted by a university through entrance exams for art academies, and most of the parents didn’t attach importance on art education.<\/p>\n
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\u201cArt education is new to the people here,\u201d Gao told People\u2019s Daily, and that\u2019s why he decided to seek students interested in fine art on his regular classes and recruit them for the extra-curricular lessons.<\/p>\n
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Padma Chungda was one of Gao\u2019s earliest students. It was a fine art work of his with splendid coloring that attracted attention of Gao.<\/p>\n
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The students comes from Yadong county of Shigatse, a low-altitude county that boasts wide vegetation coverage. It is home to green mountains and lucid waters, as well as views of snow-capped mountains, which are all rare in Shigatse. Growing up in an environment like this, Padma Chungda are highly perceptive color-wise and is an expert of colors.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDo you want to learn drawing? It earns you chances to enter colleges, or you can become an art teacher just like me,\u201d Gao asked the student, seeing his talent.<\/p>\n
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What Gao said was quite tempting for Padma Chungda. After discussing with his family, he decided to join Gao’s extra-curricular courses and became one of the first fine art students of the latter in Shigatse.<\/p>\n
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Gao\u2019s students learned well and fast. Padma Chungda, and the other two students attending Gao\u2019s courses in the earliest days, all achieved great performance in the entrance examinations for art academies that year.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey were the first students in Shigatse to pass the exams,\u201d he said, adding that hard work forever pays, which is true to both himself and his students.<\/p>\n
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Just like pigments can make a glass of water colorful, Gao’s fine art classes have made school life more splendid for the students.<\/p>\n
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The success of Gao\u2019s first students made him more confident when he explained art education to other parents. At present, over 20 senior high students are attending his extra-curricular fine art classes, and the number is higher in the school\u2019s junior high department.<\/p>\n
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Preparing for further art studies in college, the students are also expanding the influence of art, Gao said.<\/p>\n
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Gao, who\u2019s in his fifties and volunteering to teach in Tibet for a second time, has a goal to present the beauty of Shigatse to every student there and open a window into aesthetics for the children in mountainous areas.<\/p>\n
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\u201cArt courses are a mirror of the school\u2019s efforts in enhancing moral and art education. We have always been working to ensure that all students can find the extra-curricular activities they like,\u201d said Zhang Bisheng, principal of the Shanghai Experimental School in Shigatse.<\/p>\n
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According to him, 52 student societies have been opened at the school by 28 teachers from Shanghai, who are trying their best to cover as many students as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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