THE VOICE OF AN EDUCATEE ~Overprotected Children~

I am currently under education; I am in a position as an educatee. Taking my future course of going on to college, I’ll have kept having me as an educatee for following a few years.

I would like to do some stories about what I think of education day by day as just an educatee.

With my hope for that this might make something change for the nearer.

Speeded-up education as a kind of a brilliant education. A rumor of a recommended clam school for children to pass selected colleges or universities. Such topics about education for children are frequently discussed among the adults(not us, the persons concerned). How can we offer children a better education? A thought occurred to my mind.

Aren’t we overprotected?

Do we establish a relationship of mutual trust between adults and children?

I’ll take an example of school. We, students sometimes have complaints against the way school and teachers do: “teachers’ attitude vary from person to person”, “teachers are always smiling at parents and pay no attention to student” etc. There is no ending, maybe. Most of things are difficult to understand how important they are respectively. Conversely, we can get why students complain so.

However, don’t you think things are happening that would expose stundent-self to aggressiveness and independence, not no one knowing?

As for me, I’ve received some unpleasant responses from my school, because there was no precedent for them. Why are they afraid of taking risks even though they don’t have any understandable reason?

I came to the conclusion that a relationship of mutual trust between teachers and students isn’t established enough.

I can declare that the most cherished thing for education is not studying subjects. Of course, studying subjects at this time is an absolute minimum and essential to live in this world for the future. But studying many subjects isn’t involved in living the world immediately. To live as an independent person, they are presupposed to be able to communicate with others closely.

Building relationships is an issue for persons to work on in order to deal with human relationship in this society.

School is a tiny society. Building relationships in such a world would be a rehearsal for students’ future out of school to the real society; they can go through something that go wrong.

Many including members of society and students have troubles with human relationship. Some get into trust issues. I strongly believe that we need to train to make a good relationship as soon as can do.

Adults have a big influence on children and what children do and so forth. Parents worry about children’s courses for their future. Restricting children from doing anything they like surely make things ease to control. As it is, children would be grown-ups who depend on someone else indefinitely. If they are grown up to be those who still don’t get used to take action after self-decision-making, it mustn’t be for CHILDREN. It’d let things be easy if children learn to make a decision and act. The first decision-making is hard since you’d take some risks. Blunders can always happen. But they must be able to recover; I think there’s no failure that’d never be recovered.

Why don’t you leave things to children?

Let children judge for themselves and have responsibility for self-judgement. Build relationships between children, and between children and adults.

This is the matter:

“What education is for?”