【#Crystal Newspaper Editorial# |.] Labor, let a man grow armor from the softness of life] "Labor is the mother of all inventions. ”
This is a sentence said by the famous educator Tao Xingzhi. This sentence points to the value of labor.
In a few days, from March 1, primary and secondary school students in Shenzhen will usher in a new course, that is, labor education.
According to the Implementation Opinions on Further Strengthening Labor Education in Colleges, Schools, and Primary Schools issued by the Shenzhen Education Department, Primary and Secondary Schools in Shenzhen will independently open compulsory courses in labor education, with an average of not less than 1 class hour per week. Labor education mainly includes knowledge, skills and values in daily life labor, productive labor and service labor. A labor education week is established every school year in primary and secondary schools.
This kind of labor education came at the right time.
Many parents today tend to only care about their children's academic performance, and children are increasingly caught up in exams and examination papers, and are increasingly separated from real life.
Compared with the previous generation, today's children generally lack the experience of contact with nature and labor. Their lives are shaped by industrial assembly lines. Their toys are uniformly produced by machines, and the entertainment stars they like may also be uniformly packaged by star factories. They are keen to discuss some kind of latest popular brand, and even keen to show off their consumption online... It seems that this is what life is.
In fact, true life must come from labor.
The writer Han Shaogong wrote in an article titled "Love of Labor", "Frankly speaking: I look down on people who do not work. Will a person who has escaped from manual labor have a panic of being uprooted and not falling? Will it wither at the very end of the chain of property offerings? Will he become an outsider and a wanderer in the practice of life? We want to restore the strength and dexterity of our hands and feet, to the cocoon skin in the palms of our hands and the salt powder on our cheeks, to restore our ability to breathe heavily and be aching, and to look at them in the sun. ”
Yes, labor can connect us to the earth of life, and can we obtain a more simple belief in life.
The implementation opinions propose that parents should provide children with labor practice opportunities, guide children to participate in simple cooking, household cleaning, garbage classification and other necessary housework, and help children master 1 to 2 life skills every year - this can not only make children not become a test machine, at some critical moments, such skills can also become an emergency means, and even become an irreplaceable protective force.
As far as labor education in schools is concerned, it can be combined with nature education, which is already prevalent in Shenzhen.
Life is born from nature, and man's contact with nature should become part of daily life. However, modern urban children are surrounded by high technology and are easily attracted by high-tech products such as televisions, computers, online games, and smart phones, which leads to natural deficiency. An important way to treat nature deficiency is to actively promote nature education, so that children can get close to nature through listening, touching, seeing, describing, etc., and know more about the names of birds, animals, plants and trees in the city.
The media has reported that a school in Shenzhen has turned the roof of its teaching building into an ecological agricultural garden, which is full of vegetables, fruits and flowers, making it a good place for children to observe biologically - isn't this a "happy farm"? A school in Beijing divides the land into classes and designs labor courses according to the solar terms, from land preparation and sowing to weeding and picking, all of which are completed by students. All of these are worth innovating in our reference and making labor more "fresh".
Of course, labor education is not only to let children understand certain skills, but more important than such "skills" is the "Tao", that is, the tempering of the will. If a person wants to cultivate a tenacious character, I am afraid that he must learn to accept the rough tempering of life through labor, rather than letting them live in an overly delicate bonsai environment all the time.
Today, there is a problem of overprotective children in the subconscious of the whole society. It can even be said that there is no harm without overprotectment. It is the layers of protection that make a person gradually lose the ability to grow armor.
When the bird loses the sky, it will be imprisoned by the earth; saying goodbye to "captivity" can lift the shackles of the body and soul.
Labor, let a person grow armor, let life get the weight it deserves.
