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Is brainwashing gratitude education really useful for children?
Knowing how to be grateful represents a person's best, happiest and most positive characteristics. Psychologically speaking, people who are always grateful are more likely to feel happiness, and they feel happiness the most. Therefore, we should encourage everyone to study or keep a grateful attitude. However, "gratitude" and "gratitude education" are not the same concept. In China, people often combine gratitude with traditional paternalism and filial piety. This kind of gratitude education looks beautiful, but it is actually just a form of brainwashing, ignoring the real premise of gratitude, that is, within a positive and reasonable range.

In many "Thanksgiving Education" videos promoted by primary and secondary schools, the speaker tearfully guided students to immerse themselves in their parents' painstaking imagination, which moved them. I think this kind of education is a bit simple and rude, because it forgets to identify the parent-child relationship of students. The vast majority of parents care about their children, but parents who abandon, abuse and abuse their children are not without them. Using this educational model to brainwash those unfortunate children into their parents' bitter imagination is essentially a naked secondary injury.

Gratitude is an attitude and a positive, optimistic and healthy spirit. We have no reason to say that because he is our parents, teachers and elders, students should respect him and thank him. An irresponsible teacher, students should learn to identify, such a teacher is unqualified, should be resisted and replaced, rather than indiscriminate "gratitude."

Generally speaking, "gratitude" and "gratitude education" are by no means the same concept. It is terrible to "kidnap" all the students' thoughts with filial piety. What we should do is tell students what rights they should enjoy, whether what they have suffered is fair or not, and they should distinguish right from wrong. They should know that positive and healthy values are far more important than "gratitude" of inferiority.