Life Education

? Life Education

The quality of sleep at night is not high. My friend suggested that I exercise more. When my body is tired, I naturally sleep soundly. It makes sense, and then I buy the equipment and use the time after dinner to go out for a bike ride.

There are not many vehicles on Shuhe West Road at night. There are lush trees on both sides, the fragrance of flowers, dim lights, and charming scenery. It is my favorite cycling path.

Tonight the moonlight is bright and the breeze is gentle. I am riding my bicycle and feel comfortable when a bunch of white things are blocking the road. When I stepped forward and took a closer look, I saw that it was a kitten that had been run over by a car. I feel sorry for this little life, but isn’t life just a reincarnation? People can’t completely control their own destiny, let alone a stray cat?

I was about to continue riding when I suddenly noticed a black shadow not far away moving slowly over here. Taking a closer look, it was an old cat. Is she the mother of this tragically killed kitten? Why does it move so slowly? It turns out that this is a disabled female cat with a fat body and one missing hind leg. Has she ever escaped from a car accident? I suddenly felt sympathy for this mother who had just lost her beloved son, even though it was just a wild cat. There are still vehicles speeding by on the road, and the female cat is at risk of being knocked away at any time. I placed my bicycle in front of the kitten's body to remind passing vehicles to avoid this tragic life, and also to allow the mother to safely complete the farewell ceremony with her beloved son.

The female cat stood in front of the kitten's corpse, sniffing the pile of flesh and blood, and whined softly. I didn't step forward, not because I was afraid it would attack me, but because I didn't want to affect its sadness. It must be full of hatred for humans! After a while, the female cat seemed to be aware of the danger of the passing cars. She returned to the roadside and squatted there without leaving. I broke off a few branches, laid them on the road, and rode off. When she returned, the mother cat was gone, leaving only the bloody body of the kitten.

Thinking back to the scene of standing stupidly on the road, I wonder if I am a little too sympathetic? That's just a wild cat! Immediately, I remembered the prose "The Tragedy of Youjing" by the literary master Ji Xianlin, in which he was sad and painful for an ancient vine that was innocently cut off. The master considers himself an ordinary, unpromising person, with too many emotions, and often causes countless worries about small animals and flowers. The master thinks that a truly great man will not be like this. Compared with people like Ji Xianlin, I am naturally as ordinary as an ant. I have no potential to become a great man, let alone the extravagant hope of becoming a great man. If I feel sad for a cat, there is nothing to be embarrassed about.

In fact, respecting life is the foundation of a person's life. We have no right to deprive lives for no reason, even very low-level lives, including our own lives. However, life education is the weakness of our school education. In high school classrooms, you can often see depressing and creepy inspirational slogans such as "Raise one point and kill a thousand people" and "Why sleep more when you are alive? You will sleep forever after death". It seems that success means stepping on others, and failure means being benevolent.

Teacher Yang Yuanlin of Chengdu No. 7 Middle School gave a thought-provoking speech at the senior high school student union. He lamented: "In this era of pervasive competition, whether it is chicken blood or chicken soup, there is already too much. I am worried Yes, after drinking too much chicken soup and injecting too much chicken blood, how much human blood and human smell can we still have..." Teacher Yang's worry is not unreasonable. In such an educational environment, our students are accustomed to Because of the fierce competition, they have lost the ability to face the pounding heart of a little flower, cannot appreciate the beauty of life, and even develop various psychological problems, or relieve stress through self-mutilation.

There is a story circulating on the Internet: A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp became the principal of a middle school in the United States. Whenever a new teacher came to the school, he would give the teacher a letter The letter read: "Dear teacher, I have seen with my own eyes things that humans should not see: gas chambers were built by engineers with expertise; children were poisoned by knowledgeable doctors, and young children were poisoned by well-trained nurses. Killings, women and babies were gunned down by soldiers with high school or college educations.

Seeing all this, I wondered: What is education for? My request is this: Please help students grow into human beings. The ability to read, write and arithmetic is valuable only if it enables our children to grow into human beings. ”

The principal’s words are shocking and worthy of serious consideration by our educators as to what kind of people we want to cultivate. The famous educator Tao Xingzhi talked about this in a letter to a friend. Xiaozhuang Primary School, which he founded, attaches great importance to biology. For fun, the primary school students caught strings of toads (tadpole larvae) and raised them. There were about thousands of toads that turned into tadpoles. Later, they all died due to the lack of oxygen in the water. Tao Xingzhi regretted that he did not intervene in time, causing those tadpoles to lose their lives in vain.

Tao Xingzhi believed that such education was absolutely unacceptable. What rights do we have? Can the lives of toads be sacrificed to play tricks for us? Even if it is used for experimental observation, it is enough to catch a few, and the necessary growth conditions must be created for them. Tao Xingzhi's point of view is by no means limited to advocating health preservation. Killing, but hope that schools can provide children with life education, so that they know how to respect life and love life.

The scene of the tragic death of the kitten is still in my mind. Can the drivers and masters passing by slow down and show compassion. , pay attention to life, even if it is a cat, you must know that everything in the world is related to me, and their fate is our fate.

November 2, 2020