"The Little Bean by the Window" is "the best-selling work ever made in Japan" and the first book my daughter read with her at her strong request in elementary school. I didn't expect to be attracted to the conversation with my child like a friend.
This book is the author's description of the real experience of his childhood by the author Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (that is, the little beanie in the book), the language is very simple, there is no excessive rendering, but the story itself brings great infection and enlightenment.
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Little Doudou, who just started the first grade, because she is naughty, curious, does not know how to be constrained, it is very headache for the teacher, often because of her interference and can not go to class normally, please ask Xiao Doudou's mother to "change another school for your little girl"!
After understanding the specific reasons, Xiao Doudou's mother not only understood the teacher's difficulties, but also respected the child's personality. When she got home, she didn't tell her daughter that she had been dropped out of school, or even say a word of reproach to her, but discussed with her in a very pleasant tone: "Or let's go to another school, right?" ”
In this way, my mother took Xiao Doudou to a strange school: Ba Gakuen.
As soon as she walked to the door, Xiao Doudou felt particularly new: the school gate of Ba Gakuen was composed of two naturally growing trees, and the fence was only planted with many kinds of trees around the campus. Six trams are parked quietly on campus, and that's the classroom.
When Xiao Doudou ran to the door of Mr. Principal with countless surprises and questions, the amiable Principal Kobayashi said, "Let's talk, shall we?" You can say whatever you want." Xiao Doudou was very excited and talked endlessly for four hours. And Mr. Headmaster listened with a smile, sometimes asking, "What happened later?" "Oh, that's the way it is."
An adult can patiently listen to herself for such a long time, which is an experience that Xiao Doudou has never had before, and she suddenly likes Mr. Principal. When Mr. Principal said, "From today onwards, you will be a first-year elementary school student at Ba Gakuen." She jumped up happily.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > classes and lunches</h1>
In the tram classroom of Ba Gakuen, students can freely choose their seats. In the first class of each morning, the teacher will write down the main content and problem points of the day on the blackboard, and each child can start from his favorite class. The teacher is always in the classroom to help and answer questions. In this way, it can also be taught according to each person's strengths.
If everyone successfully completes the day's learning tasks in the morning, in the afternoon, the teacher will lead a walk on the campus, while observing the flowers, bees, butterflies, and trees, while listening to the teacher introduce the fun and mysteries of these things. Wandering in nature, like playing freely, I also unconsciously learned a lot of knowledge of natural disciplines such as biology and geography.
Lunch was brought by the children from home, and the principal simply asked the parents to "please prepare for them the taste of the sea and the taste of the mountains." At lunchtime, the principal would personally check each child's lunch box, and if anyone had brought only one of the mountains or the sea, the principal's wife, who was following behind and holding a pot in each hand, scooped out another dish and distributed it to him.
This makes eating a rather interesting thing, and people learn to better identify which foods are grown on land and which are in the sea. Children are no longer picky eaters, nor do they compare ideas like "whose meals are superior, whose dishes are always shabby."
During the meal, everyone gathered in a circle and sang the principal's own song " Chew well , " Start eating again. Every day, one child takes turns to eat first, standing in the middle to give everyone something to train their expression skills.
In this way, Xiao Doudou naturally integrated into this happy collective. In the previous elementary school, when she woke up in the morning and thought about going to school, Xiao Doudou always had to stay for a while, and she also felt that she was rejected in her subconscious. When she arrived at Ba Gakuen, she looked forward to the arrival of a new day every night and did her best in spirit. Unconsciously, Xiao Doudou became a polite, loving, and good at interacting with people.
Ba Gakuen's music class is the most distinctive. Mr. Kobayashi, the principal, will attend classes himself no matter how busy he is. He was greatly influenced by the French composer and educator Douglas. Through practice, prosody is well applied to primary education.
For example, when the principal plays the piano, he teaches the children to tune the rhythm of the piano, the body swings freely, and the hands and feet make simple and random movements. When the beat of the music changes, the principal asks "you don't follow the change immediately", but to listen to the rhythm of the three beats and continue to do the second beat for a while. It's a little difficult and fun for the kids, not only training the sense of rhythm, but also exercising their attention.
There is also a way to teach, when the principal plays the piano, let the children lie on the open floor of the auditorium, each side, holding chalk to write down the notes. After class, clean up the marks painted on the floor. In this way, while learning music knowledge, it also fulfills the children's desire to scribble and write with chalk, and at the same time knows that it is also very troublesome to wipe the things painted clean, so that they will not scribble on the walls of public places.
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Principal Kobayashi can come up with a variety of colorful activities to expand the children's horizons, so that they can exercise their personality and grow their abilities in some unprecedented experiences. For example, farmers are invited to be teachers to teach children how to weed, plough, sow, and fertilize; let the children go to the school auditorium to "camp" at night and teach the children to set up tents by hand; swim in the school pool without bathing suits; even take students to the countryside for a picnic during the summer vacation; take a boat trip to the hot springs. In these activities, the children also learned to take care of life independently, and everyone worked together to cut vegetables and cook.
In Xiao Doudou's class, there were only ten classmates, two of whom were physically disabled. For Tai Ming, who has suffered from polio, and Jun Takahashi, who has dwarfism, the principal and teacher are well-intentioned to maintain their mental health development, so that they can get along with people very calmly. We can imagine how important such a good start is to their lives!
Ba Gakuen's unique sports meeting, those competitions are almost all designed by the principal himself, "drill carp competition", "find a mother competition", and a school-wide relay race on the very low steps with a very gentle slope, not only the children like, but also drive the enthusiasm of parents to participate, parent-child interaction, play excited, warm and happy.
What's even more incredible is that despite everyone's hard work, the first place in almost all the competitions was taken away by Jun Takahashi, the shortest in the school and the shortest in his hands and feet. Jun Takahashi sweated excitedly from the tip of his nose and climbed to the podium again and again...
When Xiao Doudou grew up, he recalled that this must be the result of the principal's deliberate design and hope to see. Because he hopes that Takahashi Jun, whose body will never grow again, should not forget the confidence when he won the first place before he had a physical inferiority complex.
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Speaking of the naughtiness of the little beanie, it is really more than many boys. She would drill in and out of the fence walls of other people's homes, and hang her clothes and skirts into strips.
Once, she saw a newspaper on the ground on the path of the campus, without thinking about it, she took a few steps back, her feet bounced on the ground, and rushed over quickly, who knew that it was the mouth of the toilet, and the school worker was half busy and temporarily walked away, in order to cover the stench. As a result, the little beanie fell into the chest-deep cesspool.
Another time she saw a "sand mountain" on the way out of school, and she did the same, rushing to the "top of the mountain" and jumping, but she misjudged it again, it was not ordinary sand but just reconciled cement. Xiao Doudou's small body and the school bag were all trapped in it, and the more he struggled, the deeper he fell, and finally only his head was exposed, and he did not dare to move anymore. When it was dark, her mother found The Little Beanie and pulled her out, she looked like a wall.
Although Xiao Doudou often ran into trouble and did some incredible things, her mother never reprimanded her, and Mr. Principal never asked parents for such things to happen to students at school, all of which were handled by the school itself.
Not only that, mr. principal always said every time he saw Xiao Doudou: "You are such a good boy!" Am I really a good boy? Little Beanie thought like this, of course, very encouraged, she always tried to make herself behave more like a good child. It was such a simple sentence that inspired her for many years, making her always remember and believe Mr. Principal's words: I am a good boy!
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > respectable Principal Kobayashi</h1>
When I read this book, I kept lamenting in my heart that although Ba Gakuen was small and not well-known at the time, its founder, Mr. Kobayashi Sosaku, was undoubtedly an excellent educator.
He understands and respects the psychology of children, gives them a relaxed and free growth environment, but also gives them countless fresh attempts, this happy growth experience for children is how warm and precious, and affect and benefit from their lives!
Mr. Kobayashi's emphasis on nature and music for children is of course also of far-reaching significance. In the book, Mr. Kobayashi once said a sentence that touched me very much: "Modern education that relies too much on words and language will probably make children feel nature with their hearts, listen to the voices of the gods, and gradually decline their ability to touch inspiration!" Needless to say, this is the unfortunate fact that we have already seen.
Unfortunately, Ba Gakuen has only existed for eight years since its inception. The shadow of war has finally hung over this little promised land full of hope. In the 1945 Tokyo Air Raid, Incendiary Bombs dropped by American planes destroyed entire schools.
The author said: "And Mr. Kobayashi's love for children and his passion for education are even greater and hotter than the flames that are engulfing the school." Sir is still full of conviction and energy. ”
After the war, Mr. Kobayashi founded a kindergarten on the ruins of Ba Gakuen, and at the same time, he assisted in the creation of the Nursery Department of the National University of Music and taught rhythmology at the National University of Music. However, the desire to re-establish his ideal primary school was not realized, and at the age of sixty-nine, he left this world with unfulfilled dreams.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > cover up contemplation</h1>
After reading this book, my daughter solemnly announced to me: I have decided not to be a calligrapher or an illustrator when I grow up, and I want to be a principal like Kobayashi Sosaku and start a Chinese Ba Gakuen!
I smiled and said, "That's fine." You have to work hard!
But in my heart, I thought that in China, a school like Ba Gakuen can only be an ideal fairy tale that exists in children's dreams. Even if there were such a school, what parent would be willing to send their children in and let them grow freely and happily like wildflowers and grasses? Isn't that "letting the child lose at the starting line"?
In reality, what I often see and think of is Zheng Yuanjie's sentence - 100 points, turning childhood into 100 years old.
