The father and six children live in the forest, hunting, picking, rock climbing, fighting, material production is completely primitive and barbaric; getting up early to exercise, reading in the sunset, playing the guitar and dancing, the spiritual life is rich and healthy. of.
Before going to my mother's funeral, this kind of production and life is self-proclaimed as a system, which is different from the school education in modern industrial society. It can be said that it even corrects some drawbacks, such as not getting obesity, and the body is stronger. .
This is reminiscent of Dewey's "learning by doing", and the father also thinks it is the cultivation of the Philosopher King, and it is true, the eight-year-old daughter can explain the "Bill of Rights" freely, and the eighteen-year-old son can "learn without a teacher" ” received an offer from a top school and understood that he was a Maoist, not a Trotskyite, which is undoubtedly much better than the average child who is addicted to video games. This is the excellence of this father's education. He understands his educational purpose, so he creates his educational environment, which is very similar to Rousseau's training of Emile. Although it lacks sexual psychology and sexual moral education, it is still perfect. produced what he expected. Children do not lie, they value their feelings, they can express and discuss rationally, they have profound insights into the society, and they also have a strong physique to practice. This is a bit moving. Isn't this the present tense of Mao's "barbaric body and civilized spirit"? If Tao Xingzhi was alive, Xiaozhuang would probably look like this.
However, this kind of education is too socially oriented (although they are physically far away from society, the purpose of teaching is to adapt and even conquer society), and it should be said that it ignores the psychological condition of children's growth. Neglect, manifested in boys thinking that kissing is a lifelong love, manifested in rock climbing injuries without comfort, especially in the father's prohibition.
Of course, this kind of education that lacks respect or favor is due to the absence of the mother, but also because it is so far away from the education of modern industrial society that we are and should be naive about the children formed by the society in which we live. There is too much imagination in the concept of evil. We would rather choose to make children fat and short-sighted than to have their appetite unsatisfied; we would rather choose to spoil our children than let them suffer in learning to be strong; we would rather choose to sigh in the environment of education, I also don't want to frown when stepping out of this big environment.
Modern industrial society does not require children to be able to hunt, slaughter, or even cook. The convenience of the refined division of labor lies in this. It seems that human beings have the possibility of being liberated. Of course, this is very good, but life is dismembered. To a certain extent, it has also become a machine that can only work and a rice bucket that can only consume (if ta has the ability to work freely and consume independently in the future).
I don't know what the future of this group of children will be, but the fact that school education and even home education are subject to the American capitalist system will undoubtedly make them unique. Education needs diversity!
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