Teaching Compassion
New paradigm education is critical to a sustainable future. John Taylor Gatto is a school reformer whose book Weapons of Mass Instruction, we recently reviewed. Home schooling is one answer to the challenge of teaching in a flawed system. Another is revolutionary teaching methods within schools. In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates. Expressing emotions is critical to releasing energy that can turn into depression or rage and this class is helping students do just that. A great working model. Bravo!
- Posted on January 15, 2010 in children, compassion in action, Education |
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