给孩子的尊重

看到了过去的学生的部落格那么写着自己，“我想老师也搞不懂我在念的是什么科系，但是她就只问了我一个问题，这科是你想要念的吗？那是我突然之间冒出了莫名感动。老师，你的这一道问题可以看到你对学生的关心是不一样的。因为其他老师通常都会问，你这科念完后可以…什么又什么的…？” 。 我有莫名的伤感。难道真的没有别的老师可以往孩子的心灵上建绿洲吗？我多么希望我不是那个唯一给孩子那份尊重的老师，要不然学校就会更快变成沙漠了。 久别了，学校！然而，教育的工作，我想我还是在耕耘着。http://jackgohstep.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_29.html. For awhile, i wept and wept. knowing the fact that little acts and stories can touch a life. as what Rudolf Steiner had mentioned, "it is not what you teach that matters, it is who you really are that matters." 在庙会，遇到了旧时的学生。当年，成绩平平，但学习态度很好的，都上了大学，见到老师也会问候一番。这孩子，当年，终是在吃了东西来教务处会问‘蠢蠢’的数学问题，能够为他解答，是我的幸福，他的热诚深深让我感动。当年，也有几个成绩平平的孩子，都上了大学，还有一个拿着master in biology---他的最爱，他说他的数学很懒，我说我的数学也不见得好，我记得的是他不放弃的精神。还有一个孩子，在pasar malam 见到时，已经是某公司的automobile engineer，还在进修着master,当年是成绩放牛班的一分子，他说经常借故’旷课’，但是我没有印象，只记得他是个很有礼貌的孩子。回顾这些孩子，让他们‘成功’的，都是因为他们有着谦卑的礼仪，愿意向老师长辈请教的学习态度

Hari Interaksi Ibu Bapa

Hari Interaksi Ibu Bapa: A day that i really looked forward to understand a child better, to uplift a child's spirit, to share with parents on why we should encourage a child more, to educate on the importance of learning and not the marks alone. A mother happily said today she learnt something. A father looked up with hope and joy. Many 13 yrs old went back with hope. These are the backlog Remove class.....which i believe one day they will persevere and enter university. 家长交流日-一直是我期待的日子，让我可以和家长分享学习的态度--不以成绩为导，以愉快学习为先锋，可以让孩子看到未来他们是可以的。一个妈妈说今天她学了很多。还有一个爸爸看来充满了希望因为他大概知道怎么去引发孩子的学习而不是只看孩子的成绩因为他的女儿是运动健将。这群放牛班的预备班孩子似乎都对前途有了希望。。。。因为我相信他们。感恩让我在孩子的身上看到了《爱》。

Wonderful article!

I like this part, "ICARUS couldn't find anyone to give the award to.All the Buddhists they called kept saying they didn't want the award.
When asked why the Burmese Buddhist community refused the award, Buddhist monk Bhante Ghurata Hanta said from Burma,We are grateful for the acknowledgement, but we give this award to al...l humanity,for Buddha nature lies within each of us."


Buddhism won “The Best Religion In The World” award
The Geneva-based International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and Spirituality (ICARUS) has bestowed The Best Religion In the World award this year on the Buddhist Community.
This special award was voted on by an international round table of more than 200 religious leaders from every part of the spiritual spectrum. It was fascinating to note that many religious leaders voted for Buddhism rather than their own religion although Buddhists actually make up a tiny minority of ICARUS membership. Here are the comments by four voting members:
Jonna Hult, Director of Research for ICARUS said It wasn't a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in contrast to every other religion that seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition.
A Catholic Priest, Father Ted O'Shaughnessy said from Belfast , As much as I love the Catholic Church, it has always bothered me to no end that we preach love in our scripture yet then claim to know God's will when it comes to killing other humans. For that reason, I did have to cast my vote for the Buddhists.
A Muslim Cleric Tal Bin Wassad agreed from Pakistan via his translator. While I am a devout Muslim, I can see how much anger and bloodshed is channeled into religious expression rather than dealt with on a personal level. The Buddhists have that figured out. Bin Wassad, the ICARUS voting member for Pakistan 's Muslim community continued, In fact, some of my best friends are Buddhist.
And Rabbi Shmuel Wasserstein said from Jerusalem, Of course, I love Judaism, and I think it's the greatest religion in the world. But to be honest, I've been practicing Vipassana meditation every day before minyan (daily Jewish prayer) since 1993. So I get it.
However, there was one snag - ICARUS couldn't find anyone to give the award to. All the Buddhists they called kept saying they didn't want the award.
When asked why the Burmese Buddhist community refused the award, Buddhist monk Bhante Ghurata Hanta said from Burma , We are grateful for the acknowledgement, but we give this award to all humanity, for Buddha nature lies within each of us. Groehlichen went on to say We're going to keep calling around until we find a Buddhist who will accept it. We'll let you know when we do.

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