Mental retardation brought by traditional education

If a person travels around the world, he will notice how similar human nature is whether in India, America, Europe or Australia. This is especially true in universities.

It seems that we are using models to shape a typical person-seeking a sense of security, becoming an important person, or living a comfortable life, with as little thinking as possible as the main focus.

Traditional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult. Echoing followers leads to mediocrity. If we advocate success and are not easy to be different or resist the environment, it may be dangerous.

The motivation of success-the pursuit of material or so-called spiritual rewards, the pursuit of internal or external security, and the desire to seek pleasure-all hinder "dissatisfaction", inhibit spontaneous creation, and breed fear, which in turn prevents us from understanding life wisely. With the growth of age, the mind becomes cold and dull.

When we seek comfort, we usually find a quiet corner, a place with the least conflict in life, so we are afraid to step out of this secret place. This fear of life, struggle and new experiences stifles the spirit of adventure in our hearts.

All our environmental upbringing and education are urging us not to be different from others, fearing that our thoughts and social models are different, which will make us give wrong respect to authority and tradition.

But what is the meaning of life? Why do we live and struggle? If we are educated just to be famous, find a better job and become more dominant than others, then our life will be superficial and empty.

If we are educated only to become scientists, scholars who stick to books, or experts who are addicted to certain knowledge, then we have contributed to the destruction and misfortune in the world.

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The task of education is to cultivate a complete person.

Ignorant people are not people without knowledge, but people who don't know themselves.

A learned man is stupid when he relies on books, knowledge and authority to gain understanding.

Knowledge comes from self-knowledge, which is the whole psychological process for a person to know himself. Therefore, the real meaning of education is self-understanding, because the whole life is gathered in each of us.

At present, the education we are talking about is only gathering knowledge and experience through books, which anyone who knows how to read can do. This kind of education provides a clever way to escape from self. Like all other escape methods, it inevitably creates more and more pain.

These conflicts and chaos are caused by the wrong relationship between us and others, things and ideas. Unless we understand these relationships and change them, only learning and accumulating knowledge and acquiring various skills will only lead us into deeper chaos and destruction.

A person's life can never be attached to a certain theory, nor can it be forced into a framework-no matter how noble the framework is conceived. Because a heart that only accepts knowledge training cannot face all kinds of changes and mysteries in life, as well as the abyss and mountains in life.

When we train children according to a set of thoughts and theories, or according to certain rules: we teach them to think in different fields, which is to prevent them from developing into complete men and women and make them unable to think wisely-that is, to face life as a whole.

Therefore, education is not just about acquiring knowledge, collecting facts and compiling them; Education is to understand the meaning of life as a whole.

The function of education is to cultivate a complete person with wisdom, and wisdom is the ability to understand fundamental things and existing things. The so-called education is to awaken this ability in yourself and others.

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Education is to know the true nature of children.

Instead of shaping children according to the ideal model

The correct education lies in understanding the real child, not imposing what we think he should be. Besieging him in the framework of "theory" is to encourage him to obey.

This will breed fear and create a constant conflict between "his true face" and "what he should be" in the child's mind; And all inner conflicts will be exposed to society. Theory is a realistic obstacle for us to understand children and children's self-understanding.

A parent who really wants to know his children doesn't look at them through some kind of ideal curtain. If he loves children, he will observe them and study their tendencies, temperament and characteristics.

Only when a person doesn't love children will an ideal be imposed on them, because in this way, because children are required to be such a person or such a person, a person's ambition will be realized through children.

If a person loves children instead of theories, it is possible to help children understand their true self.

For example, if a child lies, what's the use of putting the theory of "honesty" before him? We must find out why he lied. In order to help a child, we must spend time studying him and observing him-this requires patience, love and care.

However, once we don't have love and understanding, then we will force our children into what we call an ideal behavior pattern.

Theory is a convenient way to escape, and the teacher who follows it can't understand his students or deal with their problems wisely. For such teachers, futurism, "how" is more important than the children in front of them. The pursuit of theory excludes love, but without love, any problems related to people can't be solved.

The right teacher will not rely on a certain educational method, he will study every individual student. Our relationship with children and adolescents is not a machine that can be quickly repaired, but a living person, easily influenced, changeable, sensitive, fearful and affectionate. To deal with their problems, we must have deep understanding, patience and the power of love.

When we lack these things, we turn to quick and simple remedies, hoping to get magical and inevitable results. If we are unconscious, if our attitudes and actions are mechanized, we will shrink back from those embarrassing problems that cannot be solved by mechanical answers, which is a major problem in our education.

If we want to help our children get rid of their various ways of existence, which have caused too much pain, then each of us will begin to change our attitude towards children and our relationship with them.

Parents and educators, through their own thoughts and actions, can help children to be free and make them bloom like flowers of love and kindness.

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Education is rooted in love, not discipline and authority.

Due to political and industrial reasons, discipline has become an important factor in the current social structure. Because we are eager to gain a sense of psychological security, we have accepted various forms of discipline and implemented it. Discipline guarantee can bring some results, but one of the dangers of discipline is that the system becomes more important than the people under the system.

Discipline is a simple way to control a child, however, discipline can't help him understand all kinds of problems in life. Compulsory education can neither help us understand children nor establish a correct social environment without separation and hatred. Correct education depends on love for children.

Correct education means the cultivation of freedom and wisdom. However, if there is any form of coercion and the resulting fear, this kind of training is impossible.

When I was young, fear penetrated into most people's hearts, whether at home or at school. Neither parents nor teachers have the patience, time or wisdom to eliminate our instinctive fear in childhood-when we are adults, this instinctive fear dominates our behavior and judgment, resulting in many problems.

Correct education must take this fear into account, because fear distorts our whole view of life. Relieving fear is the beginning of wisdom. Only correct education can make people get rid of the shackles of fear and enjoy freedom-only in freedom can there be profound and creative wisdom.

Correct education encourages children to respect and understand others without any bait or intimidation. If we stop pursuing immediate results, we will find that educators and children can be freed from the fear of punishment and the desire for rewards, as well as any other form of coercion. However, if there is authority in interpersonal relationships, coercion will not end.

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Correct education comes from our own transformation.

For parents and teachers who really care about education, the main problem is how to cultivate a complete individual. To do this, it is obvious that educators themselves must be a complete person.

Therefore, the correct education is very important, not only for young people, but also for the older generation-if they are willing to learn, instead of staying on the behavior track. Our own problems are more important than how to teach our children traditionally. If we love children, we will pay attention to them and let them receive the education of the right educators.

A child is a dual product of the past and the present, so he is restricted. If we pass on our environmental background to him, we will make his limitations and ours exist forever.

Only when we understand our limitations and get rid of them can we make fundamental changes. If we are still restricted, it is no good talking about what is the right education.

To understand a child, we must observe him while he is playing and study him in his different emotions. We can't project our prejudices, hopes and fears on him, or shape him to suit our desire type.

If we constantly judge children by our likes and dislikes, we will inevitably create all kinds of barriers and obstacles in our relationship with children, or in the relationship between children and the world. Unfortunately, most people want to mold their children to satisfy their vanity or personal special reactions. We get all kinds of comfort and satisfaction in the desire of exclusive possession and domination.

It is very important to understand this difficult and complicated desire for domination, which has many subtle ways and is deeply self-righteous. Unconsciously, it is difficult to understand the intention of helping others with a dominant desire.

Can love exist with possessiveness? Will there be spiritual communication between the people we want to control and us? Dominant desire is to use others to achieve self-satisfaction. Once others are used, there is no love.

With love, there is respect, not only for children, but also for everyone. Unless we deeply feel this problem, we will never find the right way of education. Only technical training can be cruel, and in order to educate children, we must have a sense of the overall operation of life. What we think, do and say is very important, because they create an environment that either helps children or hinders them.

Therefore, people who are most concerned about this issue must begin to understand themselves, which will help transform society; We should take the construction of new education as our top priority. If we love children, won't we find a way to end the war?

However, if we only use the word "love" and lack the essence of "love", then the complex problem of the tragic situation of the whole mankind will continue to exist. The solution to this problem lies in ourselves.

We must begin to understand the relationship between ourselves and others, with nature, thoughts and things, because without this understanding, there is no hope and there is no way out of conflict and pain. Raising children requires wise observation and attention. Experts and their knowledge can never replace parents' love.

Correct education comes from our own transformation. We must educate ourselves again, and don't kill each other for any doctrine, no matter how just it is, or any ideology, no matter how much hope there is for the future happiness of the world.

We should learn compassion, sympathy and contentment, and seek the supreme truth. Because only in this way can mankind be truly saved.