At the beginning of the film, it is a scene of a helpless child immersed in his own world, doing everything in his life and being pushed away by the people around him. Isha didn't study well, didn't listen carefully to lectures, and had already relegated the grade twice... The teachers thought he was hopeless, and his parents were disappointed in him.
He was like living on another planet, lonely and confused.
His father raised his palms in anger at him, not caring at all about his son's feelings. Although his mother loved Isha, she didn't know how to get close to his heart.
To insult a child is to destroy a child
The school is about to withdraw Isha from school, and the principal hints that Isha should be sent to a special school. Isha's father angrily sends Isha to boarding school, hoping that the strict law will change his son.
Already insecure, Isha, mischievous is the hard shell of his fight against the world, and when he arrives at boarding school, he gives up his last bit of courage to fight because of the teacher's ridicule.
He originally loved to paint, but he abandoned his love there.
Seeing this, I can't help but think: What kind of teacher is a good teacher?
Is it strict requirements for children, focusing only on children's academic performance, the goal is to cultivate each child into a cookie-cutter so-called "social elite" teacher, or a teacher who pays attention to the child's inner world, explores the child's potential, and makes the child grow up happily?
When some teachers gradually obliterate children's creativity, they also pay lip service to the idea that this is to let children learn rules and discipline, and how to discipline themselves to behave in order to become good people.
In the film, Nick and Isha establish a sincere teacher-student friendship
There are several major conflicts in the film. First of all, some parents think that drawing is useless, and it is useless to let children grow up happily. These practices do not allow children to grow into people who are in need in society and to gain a foothold in society. They believe that scores are a measure of whether a child is good or not. However, Nick believes that the score is only a one-sided evaluation system, the score is not the most important, the most important thing is to develop the child's talent and ability, so that the child can live happily and happily.
Nick became a star in the night of Isha
Zhou Yijun, director of the documentary "Childhood in Other Places", said: "From childhood to adulthood, we define ourselves with the results of countless standardized tests. It wasn't until we left school that life without standard answers began, and we re-recognized ourselves. ”
Children can achieve success in life by always scoring high, and most parents have fallen into this illogical circle. They neglect the development of children's interests and force them to study hard to satisfy their ambitions and vanity.
The child's curiosity about the world is thus erased little by little.
Isha was scolded by her teacher
When you grow up happily and unrestricted in childhood, you will have the courage to meet the difficulties and explore the excitement of life in the future.
If a child with a high score only studies hard because of the expectations of his parents, the pressure of society, and the eyes of others, if he loses the joy of his childhood and gives up his interest in order to get a high score. So what can the high score bring him? A job that everyone envies but doesn't like? Comfortable but empty life?
Eventually he will find that everything is meaningless, because he has never reaped the joy of his own.
Every child is imaginative and curious. Our education should protect children's beautiful nature, to maximize the help of children to develop their potential, to help them find the most suitable development path for themselves. Instead of producing robot after robot that destroys the uniqueness of each child.
Education should be to make every child shine with their own brilliance, so that each child's different talents are affirmed and brought into play.
Every child has its own uniqueness
An Israeli educator in "Childhood elsewhere" said: "In fact, every child loves to learn at the beginning, but the rigid education gradually makes the children lose this point." ”
Maybe every child has a curiosity to learn and wants to explore new knowledge. The strict and extremely conformist education of the teachers in the film makes the children's learning boring, lifeless, and finally trapped in a rigid framework, unconsciously losing the ability to innovate.
Another major conflict in the film is the conflict between the traditional view of education and Nick's new view of education. Other teachers often punish Isha for "not studying seriously", and do not explore the reasons behind Isha's learning difficulties at all, believing that the teacher's task is to teach students knowledge without caring about the emotional needs of students. Nick is more concerned about the physical and mental growth of students than grades, and he pays close attention to Isha's fear and uneasiness. He talked about Isha to another teacher: his eyes were crying for help, and I was afraid that he would collapse one day..." So he cleverly used the examples of Einstein, Edison and other celebrities with dyslexia to guide Isha out of the psyche of the soul and helped Isha build confidence.
Nick's conversation with the headmaster in the film
He told Isha: "All around us, those who see the world with a unique eye, eventually change the world. ”
For Isha, who had closed his heart at that time, Nick's affirmation was like a driftwood grasped by a drowning man, and finally gave him a chance to breathe.
Sometimes a teacher can change a child's life. Without Nick, Isha might never have realized her talent for drawing, and would have been trapped in the scolding and misunderstanding of others, closing the door to her last heart.
Happy Isha in the film where Nick paints
Maybe we can see our own shadow in Isha. The scolding of the teacher makes us gradually lose confidence in learning, the parents' incomprehension makes us close the door to them, we long to be understood and cared for, we want to pursue our love but are forced to give up by parents for delaying grades, our childhood is occupied by exams...
In fact, the test score is just a test score, it is indeed a passport to a good university, but it is nothing more. When many students enter the real world, they are often confused by the system of test scores they have been accustomed to for many years, and they do not know how to deal with the flexible workplace correctly.
As parents, or as teachers, it's time to think about the true meaning of education. Stop using our self-righteousness to destroy our children's happy childhoods, let them create, play, and choose their passions. They will find a path of happiness and truly find their own life trajectory.
What we have to do is to support them, to encourage them, to help them build self-confidence, to make education a link to the real world, and to prepare them well for society.
If you give a child a happy childhood, then you give him a lifetime of happiness. Don't pick up seedlings and don't be too anxious. We must have enough patience and persistence to protect children's creativity, focus on children's inner world, and be a solid basis for their growth.