When someone asked me the meaning of two sculptures in front of Nelson Middle School in Philadelphia, my first reaction was really the strength of the eagle and the tenacity of the galloping horse. In my mind, the use of this statue is nothing more than educating students to have lofty aspirations and enterprising will from an early age, so as to become useful talents in society in the future.

However, following the investigation, I have to admire the creativity of the designers of these two sculptures. It turns out that these two statues illustrate the unique significance of teaching students to learn to survive from another side, that is, survival education.

On the left of the school gate, the goshawk represents a hungry eagle. In order to realize the great ideal of flying all over the world, the eagle practiced all kinds of flying skills hard, but forgot to learn to feed. It starved to death on the fourth day of its journey. The horse running on the right is not a swift horse, but a skinned horse. He felt that the first owner, the miller, gave him too much work and begged God to change him to a farmer's house, but he felt that the farmer gave him too little feed. Finally, he went to a cobbler's house, where he had no job and too much feed, but in a few days, his skin was peeled. I can't help but admire this practical education of Americans: survival education is indeed an important educational content, far more important than cultural knowledge.