Students sweeping a nearby park as part of their service learning program complained that the hardest thing was to clear the cigarette butts that were strewn all over the place. Yen Chiu-lien, director of the school's life education center, who runs the service learning program, encouraged the students to go over and talk to the old men playing chess in the park.
以打掃公園這項單純勞力的服務為例，當學生氣憤地表示，公園裡最多又最難打掃的就是滿地的煙蒂，負責服務學習課程企畫的生命教育中心主任嚴秋蓮便鼓勵學生前去與公園裡下棋的老先生們商量。