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The book I want to share with you today is "The Little Bean by the Window".
This book, which looks like a children's book, is actually a book, but it is also very suitable for adults.
Whether it's dad, mom, teacher, or you who haven't started a family yet. Whenever you have time, you can read it.
Before introducing the contents of this book, we may have to introduce the author of this book in a large way, because her life is too legendary to be clear.
So let's start with her current situation, she was born in 1933, she is 88 years old, she is still a beautiful beauty, her name is Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
He is a Japanese man with an uncountable number of identities.
At the age of 87, she and the young and handsome Ikuta Doujin acted in a reading drama and performed a legendary relationship.
Ikuta praised her: "Mude, played by Kuroyanagi Sensei, is very cute. Always dress well when rehearsing. Going through each day with my own faith and pride has given me a lot of courage. ”
Ikuta Andaru Kuroyanagi, 87
But before that, her main identities were:
The host of Japan's national treasure, her show "Tetsuko's Room", has been broadcast for more than 40 years.
It has aired more than 10,000 episodes to date, making it the longest-running single-host show in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Top 10 best-selling authors on the 2010-2011 Rich List.
36 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors.
The point is that she is still unmarried and is a single masonry queen.
At the age of 48, she published her autobiographical book "Little Bean by the Window", which was a sensation in the country for a while, selling well all over the world, selling more than 10 million copies, not only making her a rich woman in the writing circle.
It also became an important opportunity for her to serve as a goodwill ambassador.
The book gave her fame and fortune.
However, from an early age, she was extremely kind in heart, and invested all the income from books into the CHILDREN's Fund she built to help poor children.
She originally wrote this book for the purpose of dedicating it to her deceased teacher, Munaisaku Kobayashi.
It was Sosaku Kobayashi who changed the lives of Tetsuko and many of the children who went to school with her.
So how exactly does Munakata Kobayashi educate students?
That has to start from the book when Doudou was dropped out of school, Doudou is also Tetsuko herself.
Doudou has been a different child since childhood, and people usually call such a child a "problem student".
What questions does she have:
When I was in my first elementary school, because I felt that it was strange that the desk had a drawer, I kept pulling open the drawer during class, constantly taking out a pen and putting it back in, and repeating it all the time.
Because he likes street performers, he has been standing and watching the performance outside the window during class, and he has been shouting, so that the students do not have the heart to go to class, and they also lie down on the window to watch.
She was punished by the class teacher to stand in the classroom corridor, and every time the class teacher next door passed by, Doudou always asked her in doubt: "Teacher, what mistake did I make?" ”
As long as he saw her, he always took a detour.
Is such a child not a problematic child in the eyes of the average teacher?
So she was dropped out of school.
Mom didn't blame her, and the next day took him to a new school, Ba Gakuen.
Doudou loves Ba Gakuen too much because everything here is so novel.
Like what:
The door grew out of the ground.
The school's classrooms are abandoned trams.
Principal Kobayashi listened to her for four hours on the first day, and listened carefully from beginning to end.
"It's good to be with this person forever." This is the feeling of Xiao Doudou when she meets the principal Mr. Kobayashi Sosaku for the first time.
Fortunately, Mr. Headmaster was the same as Little Bean bean at that time, with the same feeling.
In this way, Doudou officially became a primary school student of Ba Gakuen.
Ba Gakuen
Ba Gakuen's teaching style is really different.
Let's start with a brief introduction to the three aspects of eating, learning, and playing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > about eating: the taste of the mountains, the taste of the sea</h1>
The principal instructed the parents to prepare the lunch that the children would bring to school: the smell of the mountains and the smell of the sea.
The taste of the mountain refers to the vegetables and meat of the mountain, and the taste of the sea is the food born in the sea.
Doudou's mother felt that the principal was too wise, and Doudou also felt particularly fresh, and the dishes that she didn't like before suddenly felt particularly delicious after the principal said so.
She suddenly became so eager to look forward to lunchtime.
Lunch was arranged in the school's auditorium, which totaled more than 50 students throughout the school.
Before eating, the principal will check the children's lunch boxes to see if there is a smell of the mountains and the smell of the sea.
If anyone doesn't have the smell of mountains in their lunch box, the headmaster will say to the headmaster's wife, who is following behind her, holding a basin in each hand.
The lady scooped a scoop of a mountain from a basin containing vegetables for the child. If there is no sea, scoop a scoop of the sea.
Before eating, we must sing the principal's own song together:
Good-good-chew
Put something to eat
Chew, chew, chew, chew
Put something to eat...
After singing this song, everyone said, "I eat!" ”
Haha, this method should be very good if applied to kindergartens!
Ba Gakuen holds a sports day every year, and the prizes that President Kobayashi thinks of are also particularly ingenious.
The first prize was "A Radish".
The second prize was "Two Burdocks".
The third prize is "a bunch of spinach".
At first, some students felt a little embarrassed to take the vegetables to the tram, and some students quietly said that they would not throw the dishes away.
When Principal Kobayashi heard this, he said to the students, "Isn't it good to ask your mother to make these dishes tonight and use the vegetables you have worked so hard to make dishes for dinner for the whole family?" Sure to be delicious! ”
Sir may want the students to eat dishes made of vegetable prizes at dinner with the family and talk happily about the daytime sports meeting.
One of the students was jun Takahashi, who was a dwarf disease patient, and the principal set up a sports event to help him build self-confidence, and finally with the encouragement of the principal, Jun Takahashi won the first prize.
Mr. Takahashi, who had his first prize on the dinner table, would remember the joy of this moment.
Later, Jun Takahashi was admitted to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Meiji University, and after graduation, he worked at Ando Electric Company and held an important position.
This is absolutely inseparable from the encouragement of the principal.
Ba Gakuen has a field of its own, and the principal specially asked the nearby farmer Uncle Dryland teacher to teach the children to plant crops.
The seedlings that everyone planted grew strongly, and every day someone ran to see how the crops were doing, and then came back to report to Mr. Principal and his classmates.
The children were both amazed and excited and amazed to see their seeds sprout.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" >about learning: it varies from person to person, and it is taught according to aptitude</h1>
How do you take classes at Ba Gakuen?
In the first lesson, the teacher will write the content of the various subjects to be taken today on the blackboard, and then the students will choose at will, and if they want to learn mathematics, they will learn mathematics first, and those who learn physics will learn physics first.
Mainly self-study, do not understand and then ask the teacher.
If the children's learning efficiency in the morning is high, the afternoon class is a walking class, the teacher will take the children to the nearby temple, enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way, and the teacher will popularize geography and biology knowledge to them.
For such a learning arrangement, the children learn very happily every day.
One of them was a student named Ah Tai, who Doudou particularly admired because his head was particularly intelligent and very diligent.
No matter when, Doudou always saw him alone in the classroom either reading a book to study or doing physics experiments.
Ha, it's great, elementary school students can do physics experiments alone in school, what an enlightened school!
Growing up, Athai became a famous physicist.
The music class is taught by Principal Kobayashi himself, and the place of the class is arranged in the auditorium, before the class, each child will receive a piece of chalk, and everyone will find a piece of their own territory on the floor of the auditorium.
When Principal Kobayashi piano talked about what note it was, the children drew that note on the floor, and they gave each note a memorable name.
After the music lesson, the children had to clean up the auditorium, and they knew that it was hard to wipe the chalk, so the children of Ba Gakuen would not scribble anywhere except the auditorium.
The principal also created his own interesting rhythmic exercises, and on the small pulpit of the auditorium, Mr. Principal played the piano, and the primary school students began to move around from various positions in unison with the rhythm of the piano.
You can walk any way, but if you go against the flow of people, you will collide with people, and it will be uncomfortable.
Later, several children grew up to succeed in music.
All in all, it was so much fun to take classes at Ba Gakuen, and Doudou couldn't wait to attend class every morning.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > about playing: have fun</h1>
At the beginning of the school year, the principal will tell parents to let their children wear the worst clothes to school.
Because I spend more time playing in Ba Gakuen.
If a child is worried that if he gets his clothes dirty, he will be scolded by his mother, or he will break his clothes, so he can't play with everyone, it will reduce a lot of fun.
There are many projects to play in school, such as climbing trees and drilling the fences of other people's homes.
Doudou likes to drill other people's fences the most, so he wore several pairs of pants, and once wore a skirt to drill the fence, and as a result, he was broken by a wire hook from his back to his ass, tearing open seven large openings, tattered like a duster on his back.
When she told her mother about the game of playing fences, her mother said softly:
"For adults, it's not fun at all, it just makes people very tired." But it's enviable that a child can have such a good time...".
It's good luck that Doudou can meet such an enlightened mother.
The children of Ba Gakuen are full of curiosity about many things.
For example, they have always wondered how abandoned trams got to school, because they were so broken that they couldn't be driven.
When the children, one by one, want to break their heads and can't understand, the principal said that usually the tram is delivered in the middle of the night, if you want to know, bring your pajamas and blankets, and sleep in the auditorium at night, so that you can see the answer.
The kids were so excited.
Another time, on the way to school, Doudou met a person who sold bark, saying that eating bark can test whether he is healthy or unhealthy, Doudou was very curious about this, and when she told the principal about it, the principal immediately borrowed money to buy it for her.
The principal always protects the curiosity of the child.
There are so many interesting stories about Ba Gakuen that if you are interested, you can open this book and see the original text for yourself.
Next, let's talk about The teaching philosophy of Principal Kobayashi, which should be the ultimate goal of our adult reading this book.
The first is about the meaning of Ba Gakuen.
The "Ba" of Ba Gakuen refers to the emblem composed of two black and white Ba-shaped motifs, which expresses the wish of Mr. Principal that the children can develop harmoniously in both body and mind.
The second is the origin of prosody.
Principal Kobayashi went to Paris for a year learning rhythms with an artist and educator.
He believes that the prosody is:
The game that makes the organization of the body more elaborate is the game that teaches us how to move the mind, the game that makes the mind and the body understand the rhythm.
Doing rhythmic exercises will make people's personality full of rhythm, and the rhythmic character is beautiful, powerful, and can gently conform to the laws of nature.
The last and most important point is "love".
Mr. Kobayashi cares to protect every child.
When Tetsuko was writing this book, she recalled the scene of that year and gradually understood the good intentions of Principal Kobayashi in everything.
This filled her heart with surprise, touch and happiness.
One of the things that the principal kept saying to Doudou was: "You are such a good boy."
Therefore, when Doudou came to Ba Gakuen, she was no longer a problem student.
In the principal's heart she was a good child, so gradually, in Doudou's heart, she herself was a good child.
This sentence still inspires Cheoko to this day.
It can be said that it was the headmaster's words that fulfilled the life of Tetsuko's legend.
postscript:
This Ba Gakuen was burned down because of the Pacific War. The fire nearly flattened the school.
Mr. Kobayashi faced the raging fire and said, "Oh, next time, what kind of school will we run?" ”
Mr. Kobayashi's love for his children and his passion for education are bigger and hotter than the flames that are engulfing the school. Mr. Mister's heart is still full of faith and strength.
As sir put it:
The most terrible thing in the world is that you have eyes but you can't find beauty, you have ears but you can't appreciate music, and you have a heart but can't understand what is true. Not moving, not passionate...
Deeply.
As an educator and a mother of two children, after reading this book, I truly understood what is meant by boundless love and paid tribute to Mr. Munaisaku Kobayashi.
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