Jackie Chan welcomes the New Year
In the quiet pages of a book, the story of a girl is hidden. Her brushstrokes are delicate and her handwriting is smooth, like the masterpiece of a calligrapher with a hard pen. She swims in the ocean of math and English, and her grades are highly regarded for her excellent results. However, stepping through the doors of junior high school, she felt an unprecedented challenge. The classes became more onerous, and she began to notice that her classmates around her seemed to be learning with ease and achieving great results. She began to feel stressed, and anxiety crept into her heart.
As time went on, several girls of the same age improved by leaps and bounds, and she felt a deep crisis. In her eyes, these children seemed immensely powerful, and she felt dwarfed by herself. Stress and anxiety went hand in hand, and she began to doubt herself and question her abilities. She confided in her parents that she was not fit to go to school and did not want to continue. However, her parents strongly disagreed and could not accept her abandoning her studies.
The tremendous pressure kept her awake at night, and tears flowed down her lonely cabin. One morning, she locked herself in her room and refused to open the door. Parents anxiously persuaded outside, but there was no response. Eventually, they picked the door and locked it, only to see her standing on the windowsill, ready to jump. Her books and notebooks were shredded and scattered all over the place. Her parents were terrified and rushed to save her, but her mother cried silently, telling her that if she didn't want to go to school, forget it, but don't think about it.
The child eventually took a leave of absence from school and began to receive counselling. However, many counselors did not find the root of the problem, they either blamed the family or the school, but they were never able to untie the knot in her heart. Frustrated by her parents, who wanted her to return to school after a year off, she was terrified of going to school.
After taking a closer look at this child's situation, I decided that the problem was not entirely with the parent's parenting style. This girl is very strong, and there is a problem with her motivation to learn. I asked her, what was your dream? She replied that she hoped to become a big leader, at least at the level of a provincial governor. The sheer magnitude of her ambitions is astounding. This purely utilitarian motivation for learning is fragile and dangerous, and true motivation for learning should stem from a love of knowledge.
In order to make children love knowledge, Jews will smear honey on the most important books so that children can taste the sweetness of knowledge. And this girl, who has been instilled with wrong values since childhood, has deviated from the right track of her dreams. If her parents are at fault, it is that she did not correct her wrong dreams and life plans in time.
People should live in harmony with nature and cultivate a love for nature and a view of humanity. Only in this way can we establish a correct outlook on life and values. The girl's failure was not a personal fault, but the result of a combination of education and social environment. Her story reminds us that the purpose of education is not just to pursue utilitarianism, but more importantly to cultivate a love of knowledge and a love of life.