"Freedom to live and to think about life for its own sake is important and even essential to a child. Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned." -John Holt.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
The good side of En 8 September 2010
Wednesday afternoon
En was pestering me to pack for camping trip the whole morning. So, I instructed her to pack for herself and take two lanterns along.
Among the 3 lanterns, she chose the two most adorable ones. One of the choice was a battery-operated type. Unfortunately, the battery is weak. So I said "Leave that out as the light is dim". She voiced up, " I don't like the other one"
Reluctantly, she exchanged the lanterns. Staring at the least attractive lantern , En uttered "Ok, This one for Hui". Upon hearing that, I just nodded.
Later on, when I unzipped Hui's back-pack, the more adorable one was inside there. I found the least attactive lantern was inside En's bag.
With great admiration, I said " You gave your sister's the nicer lantern. That was a great act of giving. You just did a thing that make the world more beautiful ". En gave a big grin and proud of herself.
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