Growing Years.2: My School Days Reading: My School Days Reading

Author: Yan Lingjun
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book discusses with students the various spiritual questions they encounter during their life journey from childhood to adolescence and youth, helping them understand themselves and the world they live in. The biggest problem with exam-oriented education lies in depriving children of the right to dream and imagine, suppressing their curiosity, desire for exploration, discovery, and creation. It uses brutal survival competition to polish the sharpness of young people's survival, dissolve their ideals and youthful passion, and ultimately turn students into "mature" mediocrities. What Yan Teacher's reader aims to do is to give back to children what belongs to them, allowing them to grow freely and healthily. It infuses humanistic care, covering 26 related themes from childhood to adolescence and youth. Examples include "Stories of Growing Up," "Where Are My Friends," "The Hazy Adolescence," "My Father and Mother," "Cultivating People for a Century," "Loving Life," "Respecting Youth," "Inner Growth," "Ordinary Heroes," and "Peers Around the World." The selected texts emphasize the beauty of human emotions and nature, helping students establish a sound sense of self, gain a preliminary understanding of social life, and learn to feel moved by human emotions and compassion.