In order to help solve the shortage of nurses on Taiwan's east coast and provide a source of nursing staff for the Tzu Chi General Hospital, and in the hope of training nurses who would be both skilled and compassionate, Master Cheng Yen established the Tzu Chi Junior College of Nursing in Hualien in 1989.
In order to train more medical personnel for the Tzu Chi General Hospital and to improve some inadequacies in the Taiwanese medical system, and in the hope of cultivating for society and all humanity doctors who would treat patients as they would their own relatives, the Master also established the Tzu Chi College of Medicine in Hualien in 1994.
The nursing school was upgraded to the Tzu Chi College of Technology by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in August 1999, and the medical college was upgraded to Tzu Chi University in the summer of 2000. The Tzu Chi High School and Tzu Chi Experimental Elementary School opened in September 2000. The establishment of these schools realized Tzu Chi's goal to set up a comprehensive educational system which offers education all the way from kindergarten to post-graduate studies.
In 1991, the first overseas Tzu Chi Youth organization was set up. In 1994, the first overseas Tzu Chi humanities school was established in the United States, which was the first step in the future expansion of the overseas mission of education.
證嚴上人為解決台灣東部地區護理人才的欠缺，提供慈濟醫院將來所需的護士來源，並希望培育出具有慈悲心懷的優秀護士，因此決心籌建慈濟護理專科學校。一九八九年，慈濟護專於花蓮成立。
為擴大栽培將來慈濟醫療志業體所需各類醫事人員，並改善台灣醫療界一些不良風氣等問題，且希望為社會、為人類培育「視病如親」的良醫，證嚴上人於一九九四年繼續在花蓮創辦慈濟醫學院。
繼慈濟護專、慈濟醫學院（一九九八年八月改制為慈濟醫學暨人文社會學院）之後，證嚴上人目前正在積極籌設慈濟大學。慈濟教育志業體的最終目標，是希望能建立一個從幼稚園、小學、初中、高中、專科、大學、研究所，整體連貫的慈濟教育體系。
一九九一年起，海外的慈濟青少年團體接連成立。一九九四年，第一所海外慈濟人文學校在美國創辦，為日後慈濟海外教育志業的拓展邁開初步。
0 意見:
張貼留言