\”Mom, why are bricks soft?\” How much misleading is there in education?

Bricks are so soft, how can they stop the big bad wolf? On the weekend, I took Xiaonuo to \”Growth Bay\” not far from home for a day. There were various professional experience projects, which are role-playing games. It was the first time for Xiaonuo to participate in this kind of activity. He was not very happy at first, but gradually he started to like it. Among the various professions she experienced, one was working as a construction worker in an architecture museum. At that time, she was the only \”worker\” in the museum. The staff changed Xiao Nuo\’s work clothes and put on a safety helmet, then knocked down the entire \”wall\” and asked Xiao Nuo to build it again. Red \”bricks\” were piled on the ground, and Xiao Nuo piled them up one by one, working very attentively. After coming out of \”get off work\”, Xiao Nuo asked me a question: \”Mom, bricks are so soft, how can they stop the big bad wolf?\” It took me a few seconds to realize that she was talking about playing in the architecture hall just now. Bricks should be simulated bricks made of sponge or foam, which are very light and elastic. After asking a few questions, I found out that she was thinking of the story \”The Three Little Pigs\”, in which the house built by the third little pig was made of bricks and stones (that\’s what I told her, I don\’t know the original story) Not like this), blocked the attack of the big bad wolf. When Xiaonuo heard this story, she once asked if our house was strong and whether a big bad wolf would run in. I told her no, because our house was made of bricks. Today, the child suddenly discovered that the bricks were so light and soft, so he had doubts and insecurity about our home. I quickly explained to her that today we were playing with fake bricks, and real bricks are very hard and strong. Xiaonuo raised this question because she was worried about whether our house was strong enough to withstand the big bad wolf. In other words, this question threatened her sense of security, so she specifically asked me. If this misunderstanding did not pose such a threat to her, she probably would not have raised the question. Or, if I had not told her the story of \”The Three Little Pigs\” before and how strong our house is, her misunderstanding would not conflict with her previous knowledge, and she would not even know I have misunderstood bricks. Think about it carefully, how many misunderstandings do children have that we are not aware of? In indoor children\’s playgrounds, cassia seeds are commonly used instead of sand to allow children to play as much as they want. Cassia is cleaner and lighter than sand, so it is a good substitute. But will this make children think that it is sand? We are unknowingly misleading our children without knowing it. Thinking about it further, I almost shudder. Bugs and earthworms are very similar to snakes. When Xiaoxi was five or six years old, she and her classmates were playing in the community. My mothers and I were sitting on the chairs nearby chatting. Suddenly, the children playing by the fence shouted: \”Snake! There is a snake here!\” The mothers were so frightened that their faces changed. I rushed over and asked, \”Where is there?\” Having grown up in the countryside of Fujian, I was no stranger to snakes and was far less afraid of snakes than others, so I rushed to the front. I thought the kids were going to panic and run away. To my surprise, except for being a little louder, they seemed calm. The two boys pointed at the leaves of the hedge: \”Here! Here!\” It turned out to be half a hand.The finger-long green bug, with its slender body twisting on the green leaves, looked quite similar to a snake. It was really a false alarm. Coincidentally, this spring, Xiao Nuo saw earthworms crawling on the ground in the community and mistakenly thought they were snakes. The shapes of earthworms and snakes are also very similar, but the size is very different. It turns out that pigs are much bigger than chickens. When I was in school, my teacher once told an example: When her son was in junior high school, the school organized a farm visit. After the son came back, he sighed: I just found out today that pigs are bigger than chickens! The teacher was puzzled: Pigs are bigger than chickens. Isn’t this common sense? Why did my son only find out today? If you think carefully about the environment in which children in the city now grow up, they really have no chance to see live pigs, or even live chickens. So how do you know which one is bigger, the pig or the chicken? You definitely can’t tell what’s drawn in the book. Many of the animal paintings are so abstract that only children can recognize what they are drawn on. On TV or other pictures, only real pigs and chickens \”in the same frame\” can be compared in size. In fact, few people will take pictures like this, so there are not many opportunities. As for the words that children are exposed to the most, look at how they are described: a big rooster oh oh oh~~, a little pig lurking~~~. After reading this kind of text, isn’t it natural to conclude that chickens are bigger than pigs? In stories, the author often likes to write big and ferocious animals into small ones, thinking it is very cute. For example, a small tiger is very cute, but a big tiger is, uh, so scary! In many picture books that are mass-produced quickly, all animals are the same size: bears, rabbits, chickens… At this point, I wonder whether the post-00s generation who grew up watching \”Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf\” will Do you think sheep are more powerful than wolves? Do you feel that wolves are all pitiful (by the way, every time I see Pleasant Goat, I sympathize very much with Big Big Wolf)? Then one day, Dafa sighed: It turns out that it is so easy for a wolf to eat a sheep! Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. I once read such a story: A child with excellent academic performance made a mistake in a simple Chinese language fill-in-the-blank question: _____ (Qingqing/Qingqing) tiles, she chose to fill in \”Qingqing\” , the teacher asked her why she got the question wrong, and she asked the teacher \”What is a tile?\” What is a tile? For our generation, this is not an issue at all, so much so that we forget that our children may not have seen tiles and need our special explanation and introduction. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. The real environment is the best teacher. If you are able, please take your children out to taste different food, appreciate different scenery, and experience different lives. Only when the horizons are broadened can the mind be broad, and only when the mind is broad can life have a big picture. If you can\’t take your child out, please squat down and see the world from your child\’s height and perspective. Think about things they might not have seen before, things they might misunderstand, and let go of our assumptions and self-righteousness.