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[Educational Research] How to love children?

About the educator Kozak, I realized it later, because of this book "How to Love Children", I know that he is an educator, writer and social activist on the same level as Chopin and Marie Curie in Poland. His works and Ideas have become the ideological basis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 1978, to commemorate his centenary, the United Nations declared that year the "International Year of the Child". 2012 is the 70th anniversary of Kozak's death, and Poland specially designated the year as the "Year of Kozak". An important contribution of treating Kozak as children is the discovery of the needs and rights of childhood. "Discovering Children" is the loudest in the history of modern education


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About the educator Kozak, I realized it later, because of this book "How to Love Children", I know that he is an educator, writer and social activist on the same level as Chopin and Marie Curie in Poland. His works and Ideas have become the ideological basis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 1978, to commemorate his centenary, the United Nations declared that year the "International Year of the Child". 2012 is the 70th anniversary of Kozak's death, and Poland specially designated the year as the "Year of Kozak".
 
treat children as children
Kozak's important contribution was the discovery of the needs and rights of childhood. "Discovering Children" is the loudest slogan in the history of modern education, a brand new starting point. At the turn of the last century, educators such as Montessori found that the focus of children is to recognize their characteristics and treat them as children. Kozak's discovery is "no children, only people", which means that children are not only children, but children and adults are human beings, emphasizing understanding, respect and liberation of children. Therefore, how to love children, how to love, when to love, how much to love, and why to love becomes the question.
When faced with a baby with infinite possibilities, almost every mother will be filled with ambitious hopes, but the implementation of traditional habits and even bad habits. Love becomes a charity, a compulsion, a deal, even a gamble. In Kozak's view, when you say "my child", you are already wrong; when you say "he should have...I want him...", you are wrong again. Because the child is not yours, and when he is born, "the world has taken the child away."
Kozak believes that "the child is not a genetically prepared land waiting for us to sow and grow what we want. His personality is formed long before he is born, and the job of the parents is only as he grows up. Support him and help him.” “Children are not lottery tickets, they are not born to win a master’s certificate or a bust in a theatre foyer. Within each child is a unique spark that ignites joy and authenticity. The Campfire. Perhaps in ten centuries, it will spark the fire of genius, surpassing its own nation, and bringing the light of a new sun to all mankind."
 
A child without self, no sound life
The delusions of love described in Kozak's book are common to us. "My child is my property, my slave, the puppy in my room. I itch between his ears, stroke his back, adorn him with ribbons, take him for walks, I train him, and so on He can be smart and neat, and when he bothers me: 'Go to play. Go to study. Go to sleep.'" "When she says 'for the children's good', she actually puts her ambition, Likes and bad habits are imposed on the child, and she makes motherhood depraved." It's not someone's fault, but the entire modern way of education "step by step hypnotizes, suppresses, and destroys by force. The freedom and will of the child's heart," is very good, very convenient, but I never thought that such a child without personal will and self will not have a healthy life.
On the upbringing and education of children, Kozak has many correct views and many "dissents". He opposes verbal and physical violence against children, believes that the person who knows children's needs best is the children themselves, empowers children to respect their own opinions and property rights, and advocates equal treatment of children and adults. He believed that "children have the same ability to understand and reason as adults, but they don't have the same experience." Therefore, children should be with children, not at home. Children gain experience through their own activities and practices. "Children should eat as much as they want, no more and no less." He said it was a crime to force children to sleep when they didn't want to. He personally trusts and liberates children. He served for 30 years in an orphanage for Jewish children. The orphanage had a "parliament", a "court", a "newspaper", a "notary office" and other institutions to encourage children to manage themselves. "
 
The poor view of children
In the generation of only children — most of whom are becoming parents — the situation for many Chinese children is distressing. On the one hand, there is over-emphasis, over-protection and even excessive doting, and on the other hand, there is ignorance and disregard for children's rights. It is prominently manifested in the educational anxiety of urban middle-class families, and the resulting overreaction. Behind the fiery school-choice craze and make-up craze is the national consensus of "murdering childhood". For the so-called children's future, at the expense of their rights to sleep, health, friends, games, at the expense of their curiosity, imagination, personality and interest. This fact shows that the white-collar and middle-class parents who have become economically prosperous are impoverished in their "view of children" and have not "evolved" into the modern age, or even into the 20th century. "
 
No childhood children, no future
A child without childhood has no future. This is the value of Kozak. His greatness is not that he wrote 24 books and more than 1,400 articles. His "King Matt I" and "King Matt on the Lonely Island" are popular with children and have been translated into more than 20 languages; He devoted his life to observing and realizing the world of children, and to petition the adult society for children and their rights. He encouraged, "Teacher, be the Fabre of the children's world!" He believed that "the most commendable deed of the great French entomologist Fabre is that he made a great observation of insects, but did not kill them. An insect..." He himself was the Fabre of the children's world, killed by the scum of mankind.
On August 5, 1942, Kozak led about 200 children and dozens of teachers from the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw to the station, where they were taken to a Nazi death camp in Germany. The children were close together, holding their favourite toys and books, carrying the King Matt I flag, and the boys in the front were playing the violins.
This picture has been frozen in history. The unique spark in the hearts of children ignited by his great love is "transcending their own nation and bringing the light of a new sun to all mankind".