Adults always think that children are like fragile glass that will break when exposed to potential dangers. They try to use what they can to prop up a protective net for the children, so that the real world outside can only reach the children after being filtered. Their intention is for the children to grow up physically and mentally, but they neglect to let the children practice step by step how to adapt to living alone in the unfiltered real world. This kind of education will make the children overly simple, and they will have a lot of discomfort when they need to enter the society on their own.
The principal of the Quebec elementary school where Teacher Raza once worked may be a proponent of this kind of protective education. For the students who witnessed the shocking death of an elementary school teacher at school, the principal chose to deal with it by passively providing psychological counseling. Even if children at that age feel uncomfortable, they sometimes choose not to tell their family members, let alone to open up their hearts to outsiders who don’t have enough trust. This kind of treatment is very European and American, it is a kind of formalism that looks very humane, and the possibility of achieving the expected effect is very slim.
In fact, just use the gentle way that Teacher Raza intended to use to discuss the topic of death with the students, and the students may think about it at that time and in the future. Regardless of the family in which they were born, almost everyone will see the death of their relatives and friends sooner or later in their lives, blindly avoiding talking and depriving children of the possibility of profound changes in their thinking. Children are just younger humans. They already have the ability to think, and their ideas should not be taken lightly by adults. Adults should not simply filter, but guide them to think more.
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