In children's education, if we blindly emphasize material things, we should encourage children to pursue material desires completely. When children grow up, they are usually inexplicably empty, helpless and even angry, as if their bodies are hollowed out and lack the meaning of soul and life. In order to let themselves escape from this bad feeling, they will work harder to get material rewards, even to gain status, rights and wealth by hook or by crook, and try to make themselves feel empty. Is this really what parents want to see?
On the contrary, if we encourage children to pay more attention to spiritual life and ignore material things in education, children will often be trapped in various choices when they grow up. The most direct embodiment is that children face real life in reality and dare not try and take risks easily. Why? There is a simple reason. They are better at "wandering" in the illusory spiritual world, but they are far away from the real world represented by matter and don't know how to get along. Therefore, when these children grow up, their lives are usually unsatisfactory because they lack the ability to get enough material life. The consequence is that in real life, people feel extremely insecure because they have no money, and even behave extremely closed and inferior. Is this what parents want to see?
So what should we do? In fact, it is very easy to do, just one sentence: "What is missing?" Material is extremely scarce, with material education as the mainstay and spiritual education as the supplement. On the contrary, when there is no shortage of materials, spiritual education is the mainstay, supplemented by material education. In this process, we should constantly adjust the order of the two so that the two kinds of education can complement each other and promote each other, so as to give children a healthy and long-term future. Personally, I think that life is never a simple choice, but a simple response in complexity. Therefore, in the face of children's education, whether to choose material or spiritual, the answer I give is that both are indispensable, but there must be a primary and secondary order.