這就是教育~Children Full of Life

The most beautiful short documentaries I have ever seen


"In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates."

I came across finding these videos which are very wonderful on Youtube.
Five videos tell about a Japanese class, on these videos, Children are the main characters and the teacher is a man who connects them.
I'm very impressed at the beginning of the story, the teacher just comes into class and he is welcome by all children. He asks children a question : why are you being here? why do you go to school? And all of the children speak out loud: We are in school to be happy. It's my answer too, not only in our school, in our life too. I always think I learn, I play, I read a book, I finish a task, I make friend with someone, I study Japanese etc...All for fun!
I hadn't a chance like these kids when I were a kid, no one tells me that : all you do in life is for fun, but by reading books and thinking about life, I have formed that life's idea.
I remember the things that I have learned and have been taught. When I studied the five grade, I met a good teacher. And she told a story about herself make me remember forever : She said every time she comes back her hometown, she and her husband drive through the fields, she looks the fields and sometimes she meets the friends who are working on the fields with their hardness describing in their face, and she told us that you should try to learn and have a good job, unless you're just a poor laborer who works very hard but still have not enough money to raise their family.
She just gave us a reason to learn.
And what's about a reason to live?
Now I come back with these videos.
I don't hesitate anymore to say that the teacher is a wonderful teacher. He listens carefully to his children and teaches them to how to sympathize with each other.
I cry sometimes when I watch the children's behavior.
I wish I were in this class. And I think of my nephew, I really hope she has a good education like these kids. She will grow up to become a brave woman who know to sympathize her friends, who know to protect the truth and justice.
My nephew, Dinh Pham Ky Thu, She will become a good person. I believe!