DIFFERENT VIEWS ON EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN AND THE PROBLEM OF STIFFNESS.

“That spring I have realized with surprise that I can fight. Although I came back home with a nose injury, I've had a lot of satisfaction. (…) My dad was upset because since then I've been fighting quite often. He was asking if I had been behaving well and I was answering all those uncomfortable questions with 'I don't know'. I remember till now what I heard from him: everybody, either a child or an adult, has to ask himself a question – did I act honestly? Children are asked the same question in a different way – were you behaving well? It is the most important question of our life and it can not stay without any answer. You shouldn't wait till somebody else asks you this question, you have to ask it yourself every day. Buryats don't hit their children, they don't even shout at them. Dad used to say that unwise behavior can happen to every person, even being as clever as his daughter is. A mistake can be changed into something good, one just has to be able to come to right conclusions. The best is to learn with somebody's mistakes, some people can do that.”

SOURCE:
My own translation & interpretation of: Urodziłam się nad Bajkałem, Bełła-Chan Skwarska, MWK 2012; 

THE RSA ANIMATED VIDEO ABOUT CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS:

“76

Men are born soft and supple;

dead, they are stiff and hard.

Plants are born tender and pliant;

dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible

is a disciple of death.

Whoever is soft and yielding

is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.

The soft and supple will prevail.”

SOURCE: 
Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation & commentary : Te III

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