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A page from Ma Ying-jeou's Harvard thesis with schoolteacher's commentary
A retired schoolteacher, curious about Republic of China in-exile President Ma Ying-jeou's views on the Senkaku Islands, looked up Ma's Harvard Law School doctoral thesis about seabed boundaries. What she found was something she wasn't expecting, a paper riddled with errors, mistakes, misspellings, missing words, improper footnoting, and footnotes that did not check out.
Red pencil in hand, the former schoolteacher graded Ma's thesis, something that apparently was not done in 1980 when it was submitted for academic credit. The teacher tallied over 1000 errors or violations of the freshman student writing guide issued by the university.
When the determined teacher approached Harvard Law School, she had trouble getting anyone to talk with her. Finally, she ended up with Ma's faculty advisor who had approved the paper despite the many mistakes. Retired Professor Detlev Vagts dismissed "all of the typos" later telling the Harvard Crimson that, "Typos don't really matter that much."
However, the mistakes went beyond the frequent spacing errors and grammatical goofs and included footnotes that do not check out raising a plagiarism concern. Vagts didn't care, Ma got the basic concepts of the law.
Not to be put off, the teacher pressed Vagts about Ma's many errors and got the following written response about Ma's paper, errors included.
"The thesis was jointly supervised by the late Professor Louis Sohn and myself.Basically he took responsibility for supervision with respect to issues of the law of the sea governing the setting of maritime boundaries. I took responsibility for issues concerning the drafting and enforcing of agreements relating to the exploitation of offshore oil assets Both of us had high standards for approval of an S.J.D. thesis and both of us were fully satisfied that Ma Ying Jeou met those standards. I have now no recollection of the politics involved but I know that we would have insisted on his being as objective as possible with respect to the rather sensitive international issues that played a role in his work. One needs to remember that relations between mainland and island China were very different in 1981." [Spacing and grammar errors are those of Professor Vagts]
International politics aside, the schoolteacher remains unconvinced and unimpressed with Harvard's low standards. In January, she again queried Vagts, this time citing Harvard's own rulebook.
"From your response I assumed you did not read his final copy….don't you think he cheated on you?"
The retired schoolteacher is still waiting for her answer from Harvard University.
Comments
I think Ma-Ing-jou is a crook!
his father is also a crook!
all KMT and their relatives all crooks!
cheating,stealing, and lying ..
should send KMT and Ma to their motherland
China,to stay with Chinese Communist!
Give Taiwan back to Formosians ..
Be a better Taiwan!
Taiwanese people stand up!
People's Power prevail!
God bless Formosa Republic!
Ivy League education really does not mean any intellectually gifted students, because it is just a brandname for the expensive education.
If Ma can't get the Law of the Sea right, then it is no surprise that he'll never understand the San Francisco Peace Treaty.
ROC is a Rebellious Entity for PRC right to Suppress
A democracy is a political system for the people to govern themselves by, and it is a basic principle of a democracy to faithfully abide by the laws either directly enacted by the people or through elected representatives. The democratization of Taiwan cannot be fully accomplished on a legal basis unless the Taiwanese people establish a constitution of their own.Expressed or recommends by US President Bush
About ROC constitution
Initially, this constitution was proclaimed on the mainland by the Chinese in 1947 to apply to all of China, already under Communist control, and Mongolia, but not to Taiwan, which the Republic of China was occupying as its last hold out. Such a strange constitution is found nowhere else but in Taiwan.
(US president Bush remarks)
China politics dictators are liars by fabricated or distorted facts, for purpose of invasion the island-Taiwan. In additional, faked up Taiwanese family pedigrees from PRC, with perjury documents, to play foolish on Taiwanese or mockery, that became blindly adores or admire with the killers or despotic CCP rulers, and worship with killers’ ancestors, that may not bless Taiwan but curse Taiwanese children or generations. Taiwanese parents or elders could become heirless eventually.
Coach
Remember how you learned to drive or cook? You practiced while someone coached you, reminding you what to do until you were able to coach yourself and then, eventually, do it automatically. Children learn values much the same way. They practice different kinds of behavior, while, you, as coach, help focus their attention on what is important and on fine-tuning important skills. You support them with your praise, encouragement, and gentle reminders.
If you don't coach your child, she or he will find her or his coaches elsewhere and be guided by the values of the media, her or his peers and anyone else who captures her or his interest. So, step up to the plate,
don't be afraid and help your child learn how to be a good person, step by step.
Title Page -- Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen (by the U.S. Department of Education)
Coach
Remember how you learned to drive or cook? You practiced while someone coached you, reminding you what to do until you were able to coach yourself and then, eventually, do it automatically. Children learn values much the same way. They practice different kinds of behavior, while, you, as coach, help focus their attention on what is important and on fine-tuning important skills. You support them with your praise, encouragement, and gentle reminders.
If you don't coach your child, she or he will find her or his coaches elsewhere and be guided by the values of the media, her or his peers and anyone else who captures her or his interest. So, step up to the plate,
don't be afraid and help your child learn how to be a good person, step by step.
Title Page -- Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen (by the U.S. Department of Education)
Coach
Remember how you learned to drive or cook? You practiced while someone coached you, reminding you what to do until you were able to coach yourself and then, eventually, do it automatically. Children learn values much the same way. They practice different kinds of behavior, while, you, as coach, help focus their attention on what is important and on fine-tuning important skills. You support them with your praise, encouragement, and gentle reminders.
If you don't coach your child, she or he will find her or his coaches elsewhere and be guided by the values of the media, her or his peers and anyone else who captures her or his interest. So, step up to the plate,
don't be afraid and help your child learn how to be a good person, step by step.
Title Page -- Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen (by the U.S. Department of Education)
If continue blurred Taiwan true name or symbols great danger for Taiwan betray by CCP conspired with politics powers dishonor practices betray Island secretly eventually.
Do not be afraid to Learn true history of Initially, this constitution was proclaimed on the mainland by the Chinese in 1947 to apply to all of China , already under Communist control, and Mongolia , but not to Taiwan , which the Republic of China was occupying as its last hold out. Such a strange constitution is found nowhere else but in Taiwan .
This is the best example of the unspoken policy in major college's Ph.D program:
"The 3rd World Ph.D.".
Ma wishes to be the representative of a new united China. And indeed his behavior--and his thesis--exemplifies all that is about China. One word: Crook.
This is response to TRCLO. Ma did indirictly mention San Francisco Treaty (thesis pages 233 -234) by quoting British Foreign Secretary Eden (Feb. 4, 1955). In which Ma stated that Taiwan's sovereignty "over which is uncertain or undetermined" with "(Emphasis added.) He dared to place this citation in his thesis and came back to serve as an interpreter for Chiang. Thinking if I did it I would be arrested by KMT right at the airport. I also wonder why his alma mater does not even hold a copy of his thesis? Too shamful to show his Ma-ster piece?
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