A Person Roaming the World: 20 Survival Stories Told by an Alternative Youth

Author: Xiao Jian
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: A group of extraordinary teenagers traveling the world, various unconventional education methods. This is an alternative inspiration and an unforgettable journey of growth. When a folk music performer takes his 15-year-old daughter to sing on the streets. When a professor sends his 13-year-old son to the computer village to make a living on his own. When a journalist takes his 14-year-old son to infiltrate the modern (beggar gang) to beg. When a county magistrate has his 15-year-old daughter dress as a boy to dig coal in a private mine. "A Journey Through the World: 20 Survival Stories Told by Alternative Teenagers." They directly delve into the underbelly of society, permeate it, understand life, and experience pain. Of course, what ultimately emerges from them is still love. Love—this is the eternal theme of our society. This is a book unlike any other. Through a series of real-life stories, it inspires and surprises parents, excites and engages children, shocks and delights society, and leaves readers astonished and uniquely original. For every psychologically normal parent, the ultimate goal is to see their children succeed—whether sons or daughters. Yet achieving this goal requires a long and complex process, and there should be, and can never be, only one model. In reality, there are countless paths to success for children. As the ancients said: "A thousand paths wind up the mountain, all leading to the same peak." Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles is the necessary journey from infancy to maturity. Unfortunately, our education system places excessive emphasis on reading thousands of books while neglecting, or even forgetting, the importance of traveling thousands of miles. This must be corrected! The numerous fathers in the book use what are considered cruel, ruthless, or even brutal methods to expose their children to the social environment and atmosphere that their schoolteachers never mention. This is not to conduct the so-called resilience training, physical development, labor education, or humanistic care that education scholars within the system advocate. Instead, it is to let them directly immerse themselves in the grassroots, permeate society, understand life, and experience pain. The 20 stories are stimulating, unconventional, thrilling, and even somewhat sensational, making them sure to capture readers' attention and provide parents with ample room for imagination, as well as igniting a desire in children to try it for themselves.