Sunday, March 3, 2013

In kindergarten we learn...

Robert Fulghum says in his book "Everything I Wanted to Learn I already Learned in Kindergarten."
True enough...the home is our very first school and the family are the first teachers.  What we initially acquired and learned at home are confirmed in Kindergarten...and children's curriculum is very simple: LEARNING THROUGH FUN. Children learn easily through songs and play.

    Let's take a look at the song "BAA BLACK SHEEP"
         Baa baa black sheep...have you any wool?
         Yes Sir, yes sir three bags full
  •              One for my master, one for my dame
             and One for the little boy who lives down the lane...
Children learn the value of sharing and concern for others easily at an early age through simple songs...

When children become grown-ups things seem to get a lot complicated...
 They have to undergo a lot of trainings, seminars, reorientation on the values of responsible humanhood and governance, concern and stewarship...and spending so much on resource speakers to teach AND REMIND them what they actually learned in kindergarten...

Why dont we go back to our lessons in Kindergarten and translate our Nursery Rhymes to Adult
version and make it our mantra?

         Adult Version of "Baa baa black Sheep":

                     Hey you, hey you outcast person in the society?
                     What have you, have you any wealth?

                     Yes sir, yes sir, allocated in three equal parts
                      One for the government and all institutions in the society
                      One for my family and the children I love
                       and One for Charity for the welfare of the less fortunate...

Grown-ups never forget what they learned at home and in kindergarten,
it just happened that they just want to live for themselves more...

How we teach children about selflessness, how we teach them not to follow adults selfishness...






                      
                  





1 comment:

  1. Less for Self, More for Others & Enough for All...slogan of Human Nature- Choose Only the Good!

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