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My Mentor JP Roman-Lagunas

In March 2006 I met Mr.JP, my new foreign teacher, a strong and well-muscled young man.It was the most fortunate thing in that semester.We knew each in an English Corner all by chance.At that time we discued(but for most of the time I was an attentive listener)the differences between the Chinese education system and the American education system.It was such a big topic that much was left untouched.To my surprise, he invited me to have a dinner to continue our discuion.Ever since our first encounter, we often met at a restaurant named SPR and spent many wonderful hours.Apart from the education systems, we talked on many other topics, for instance, the ancient mythologies and the world civilizations.I was so happy that I had found a person who was able to talk with me on those topics, which were usually neglected by my other teachers in the claroom.What’s more, he treated me as an independent thinker.In fact, the discuions brought me not only knowledge and happine, but also insights.As Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, said, “A learner without a friend is ill-informed.” Before I met JP, I had groped hard in the dark along devious path for a long time.However, after talking with JP, the brilliant ray of Apollo began to radiate upon the path.He brought me a different culture.By comparison and contrast, things previously beneath the water now emerged.I started to notice the differences between the two major mythologies;later JP brought me an objective and logical understanding of the Greek mythology.Unlike the Chinese especially sacred gods who seldom come down to the earth, Greek gods are highly humanized.For example, Zeus had Hercules because of his desires.Before our discuion, I had felt unfair for Asclepius.But JP had a different point of view and I was convinced by his eloquent explanation.Although Asclepius' resurrection to Hippolytus is due to his warm-heartedne, the “omnipotent” doctor disobeyed the rules in that world.The following lines in Divine Comedy(“Inferno Canto 3”)verify the fault made by Asclepius:

I am the way into the doleful city,I am the way into eternal grief,I am the way into a forsaken race.Justice it was that moved my great creator;

Divine omnipotence created me,And the highest wisdom joined with primal love.Before me nothing but eternal things

Were made, and I shall last eternally.Abandon every hope, all you who enter.Dante told us these were what inscribed along the ledge above the gate of Hades.And virtually everyone who enters must give up his or her hopes and never come out.Asclepius freed Hippolytus in order to have a happy ending;however, it is the mistakes(tragedies)that perpetuate the mythologies and then history.In this sense, without the Crusaders’ sacrifices, we would not have had the splendors of European Renaiance.Like a mirror, mythologies reflect human history.Apart from Greek mythology, JP also talked with me about the-once-mighty Inca Empire;the talk vitalized my thoughts.Before that I had considered Greek-Roman civilization as the most outstanding and contributive one in the world for the reason that Hellenistic Age first linked Eurasia, and Africa.As a result, thoughts in the continents were diversified.Stoicism in Zeno's “All things are parts of one single system, which is called Nature;the individual life is good when it is in harmony with Nature”;Skepticism in Socrates' “Life unexamined is not worth of living”;Epicureanism in Epicurus' ”Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here.And when it does come, we no longer exist.“ The philosophers’ shadows can still be found in the modern world while Inca civilization in South America is merely like clouds and fumes that paed by people’s eyes.However, after 3 hours' long conversation, I had corrected my original ideas--there is no superiority or inferiority in terms of civilizations.The Spanish guns vaporized the brilliant traits of Inca civilization;the destructions were no le than Caesar's fire to Egyptian library.Despite the tremendous destructions, we still can find some great remains--quipu, a strings and knots ”writing” system.If the system had not been badly destroyed, it would have been a fragrant flower in “languages”.What is more, the royal roads built by the Incas are no le efficient and magnificent than those built by the Romans.Finally I understood through JP's words: the part reason why Greek-Roman civilization had a significant influence on the world today is that the civilization, by aimilating other civilizations, absorbing their souls at the same time.I realized that if I want to wholly understand a civilization, I have to take not only its achievements, but also its origin and development into account, compare them with others, and analyze them in a diversified circumstance.Although JP is not teaching me English and having his further study in Chicago at the moment, we can talk by email.I can’t forget our meaningful evening talks.Unlike some other teachers who keep a long distance from students, he tries to move closer to them.I felt relaxed when talking with him--I could speak out what my inner-heart wanted me to.And what is more, his influences on me are not limited to knowledge itself, but extended to the way I think--objectively, logically, and wholly.