So, what's so remarkable about Japanese education?
After reading the early childhood education in Japan, I understand the reasons for Japan's strength, and I also feel that parents should "take the essence and discard the dross" in educating their children and learn some good ways to educate their children.
So what aspects of Japanese education are worth learning?
Storage and classification is a very important thing in Japan. Not only adults and housewives should have a strong ability to organize, but even kindergarten children will learn how to organize schoolbags and desks.
Moreover, Japan's early childhood education attaches great importance to cultivating children's independent ability. Children should learn to take care of themselves when they are very young. Even if their parents are around, they should carry their own umbrellas and schoolbags.
This not only exercises children's various abilities, but also fundamentally cultivates their independent thinking and willpower. This method of letting children do it themselves is something we need to learn.
Japan's preschool education also attaches great importance to the cultivation of team consciousness. I once watched a video in which a 6-year-old boy jumped out of a box in Japan. After the boy failed several times, the teacher called the whole class and told them, "Let's lend our strength to Ling (the boy's name)!"
Then the children formed a circle to cheer him on!
The result of this matter is not important, but the team consciousness of encouraging and helping each other.
In the documentary "Foreign Childhood", a kindergarten in Japan deliberately made a "broken" door. The children can't close the door once, so they need to go back and push it again to close it.
If anyone is lazy in winter, the children at the door will feel the cold wind blowing from the door. The kindergarten teacher said that this design is to let children understand from an early age that they should do things thoroughly, pay attention to other people's feelings, and don't give others trouble easily.
This is another way to cultivate children's sense of team. To know that "one tree does not make a forest", excellent children should not only have excellent self-ability, but also be able to integrate into the collective. Only by cultivating children's collective consciousness from an early age and knowing how to give up some of their own things can we gain more from the collective.
Japanese people also pay special attention to etiquette. Some kindergartens will offer traditional courses such as "Kendo" and "Jiu Jitsu". In addition to exercising children's bodies and understanding their own culture, they also learn basic etiquette.
For example, in Childhood in a Foreign Country, there is a scene where children practice sitting posture in kendo class.
Moreover, children are also required to answer politely when listening to their parents, teachers or elders. These rituals are basically ubiquitous in all aspects of life, and children are deeply influenced by them.
I think some educational methods in Japan may be too rigid and seem unreasonable, but they are not without merits. If our parents can "take the essence and discard the dross", let their children learn some manners independently and moderately, and cultivate their team consciousness, it will only be beneficial to their future development.
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