A century-old school born in the Confucius Temple, still walking the same path 百年前在孔廟誕生，百年後仍走在同一條路上
On the first day of April, 1916, a school opened inside the courtyard of the Changhua Confucius Temple, borrowing its halls as classrooms. They called her, then, the Changhua Girls' Public School. Eleven years later, she moved into her present building on Minsheng Road, and over the next century she would change names five times before settling on the one we still use today: Minsheng.
A hundred and ten years on, Minsheng is no longer just an elementary school. She is the seat of the Changhua County International & English Education Resource Center, a Ministry of Education Bilingual Teaching Base, and home to one of the county's oldest gifted-class programs (since 1973) and music classes (since 1985). And she still stands a short walk from the temple where she was born.
1916 年 4 月 1 日，一所學校在彰化孔子廟的院子裡開學，借廟堂為教室——那時她叫做「彰化女子公學校」。十一年後，她遷到今天的民生路校址，又在後續百年間，更名五次，才落在今天我們仍叫她的名字：民生。
一百一十年後，民生不再只是一所國小。她是彰化縣國際教育暨英語教育資源中心的所在地、教育部雙語教學基地、也是彰化縣最早的資優實驗班（1973 年成立）與音樂班（1985 年成立）的搖籃。她至今仍與當年的孔廟，只有幾條街的距離。
Few schools in Taiwan can point to a single courtyard and say "this is where we started." Minsheng can. We opened in 1916 inside the halls of the Changhua Confucius Temple — and a century later, those Confucian roots still shape how we teach: steady, demanding, careful with each child. The temple is a five-minute walk from our gate.
臺灣很少有學校能指著一個院子說：「我們從這裡開始。」民生可以。我們在 1916 年於彰化孔子廟的廟埕中開學——一個世紀後，那份儒家根底仍塑造著我們的教學氣質：穩、嚴、對每個孩子細心。從民生校門步行到孔廟，只需五分鐘。
Minsheng is not only a school — it is the home of the Changhua County International & English Education Resource Center, which runs the county's reading competitions, speech contests, readers' theatre, and bilingual teacher training. We are also a Ministry of Education Bilingual Teaching Base. Bilingual education is not something we do alongside our work; it is our work.
民生不只是一所學校，她也是彰化縣國際教育暨英語教育資源中心的所在地——縣級英語朗讀、演講、讀者劇場比賽與雙語教師研習都由此中心承辦。同時，民生也是教育部雙語教學基地。對民生而言，雙語不是「順便做的事」，而就是我們的事。
Inside our gates, three learning tracks live side by side: the regular-class students, the music class (since 1985), and the gifted-class students (since 1973 — the oldest in Changhua). Cross all three with our SMART school-wide curriculum — Science, Math, Art, Reading, Technology — and you get a campus where 1,200+ children find, somewhere, the door that fits them.
民生校園裡，三條學習軌道並肩前進：普通班、音樂班（1985 年成立）、資優班（1973 年——彰化縣最早的資優實驗班）。再加上跨越三條軌道的SMART 校本課程——科學、數學、藝術、閱讀、科技——讓 1,200 多位孩子，總能在民生找到一扇適合自己的門。
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Minsheng's music class opened in 1985 — forty years and many concerts later, the corridors here still carry, at any hour, the sound of a violin warming up, a piano running scales, or a children's choir finding the next note. Music isn't a subject at Minsheng; it is a daily voice in our building.
民生音樂班自 1985 年成立至今，四十年、無數場音樂會。任何時間走過民生的走廊，你都會聽見：一把暖好的小提琴、一台彈著音階的鋼琴、或是一群孩子在尋找下一個音的童聲合唱。在民生，音樂不是一個科目，而是這座建築物每天最自然的聲音。
In 1973, Minsheng opened Changhua County's first experimental gifted class — long before "gifted education" had a vocabulary in Taiwan. More than fifty years later, the program runs as it always has: not as a fast lane, but as a place where curious children meet teachers who treat their questions with the seriousness they deserve.
1973 年，民生開設了彰化縣最早的資優實驗班——那時臺灣還沒有「資優教育」這個詞。五十多年後，這個班仍以一貫的方式運作：它不是一條快車道，而是一個讓好奇心強的孩子，能遇見一群把他們問題當一回事的老師的地方。
SMART is Minsheng's school-wide curriculum — Science, Math, Art, Reading, Technology — not five separate subjects, but five strands threaded into one learning year. The goal is not for a child to be good at all five. The goal is for every child to find one that opens.
SMART 是民生的校本課程——Science（科學）、Math（數學）、Art（藝術）、Reading（閱讀）、Technology（科技）。不是五個彼此獨立的科目，而是五條交織在一年學習裡的線。目標不是讓孩子五科都精；目標是讓每個孩子，找到那 一 條會為他打開的線。
Our English Village lets students walk into bilingual situations — a high-speed-rail station, a market, a restaurant — without leaving campus. And since 2021, we have run regular video-link exchanges with Matsuhigashi-Midori Gakuen in Komatsu, Japan, plus the International School Award we received in 2019. A child's first international experience often happens, quietly, in a classroom at Minsheng.
我們的英語村讓孩子不用走出校門，就能走進雙語情境——一座高鐵站、一個市集、一家餐廳。2021 年起，我們也與日本小松市的松東綠學園固定進行視訊交流，並在 2019 年獲頒國際學校獎（ISA）。對許多孩子來說，第一次的「國際經驗」，靜靜地，就發生在民生的一間教室裡。
We welcome educators, parents, and friends — from across Changhua, across Taiwan, and from anywhere in the world — to visit the school that began inside the Confucius Temple, and to share what works in your own classroom.
歡迎彰化各校、臺灣各地、以及世界各地的教育工作者、家長與朋友——蒞臨這所從彰化孔廟開始的百年小學，並把您課堂裡有效的做法相互傳承下去。