2015.07.29

 

孩子擁有驚人的潛力

  我最近聽到了一個很棒的故事，我很喜歡它。

  故事是這樣的：有一個六歲的小女孩在上繪畫課。她坐在教室後方畫畫，老師說這小女孩平常非常難專注在一件事物上，但是今天她很專心。老師非常的好奇，於是老師走向小女孩問道：妳在畫什麼？小女孩說：我正在畫一幅上帝的畫像。老師又說：可是沒人知道上帝長什麼樣子啊。小女孩接著說：那他們馬上就會知道了。

  所有的孩子都是天生的藝術家，問題是如何維持藝術家的性格到成年？因為我們不會越老越有創意，我們的成長背離創意，因為教育常常抹煞了我們的創意。發明小兒麻痺疫苗的美國科學家瓊恩斯˙沙克有句名言，他說：如果昆蟲從地球上消失，五十年內地球上所有生命都會滅絕；如果人類從地球上消失，五十年內地球上所有生命都會茁壯。

藉由教育看到人類創意的豐富性，看重孩子代表的希望，我們的任務是提供全人教育，使孩子能夠面對未來。

 

Children have Extraordinary Capacities

I heard a great story recently, I love telling it.

A little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six, and she was at the back drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did. The teacher was fascinated. She went over to her, and she said, "What are you drawing?" And the girl said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." And the teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like." And the girl said, "They will, in a minute."

All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it. There was a wonderful quote by Jonas Salk, who said. “If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.”

And the only way we’ll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future.