Thursday, March 31, 2011

A lesson in sacrifice

A touching story of this Japanese boy in Fukushima. Read SGEP or click here.
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2 comments:

yujuan said...

Moral education starts at home and in school, at an age when the child is able to differentiate right from wrong, most probably from age three onwards, with both parents involved. You have to bend the shoots when they are young, wait until early teens, it is too late already.
Nowadays children's care falls on the domestic maid, who as an employee would spoil the child, leading to " me first " and selfishness.
Since my sons are not married yet,
we do not know whether moral education is still continued as part of school syllabus in the primary schools, if it is not, then
don't expect the children to grow up to behave with such civility and sacrifice as that shown by the nine year old Japanese boy.
SM Goh persuaded us to act like the Japanese, he should examine the root cause first, before making
such a casual but shallow remark.
People have to be taught from childhood.

April 01, 2011 11:37 AM
Bai Hu said...

Yes, i agree with yuyuan. Indeed, nowadays, the government & even most of the parents put so much emphasis on academic results & paper qualifications. Moral education is accorded the most unimportant status in the school's syllabus. We have churned out so many selfish instead of selfless next generation citizens nowadays & it's hard to imagine what will happen in even later generations.
Give a most recent case of an NSMan, asking his maid to carry the big haversack for him. I hope he doesn't bring his main to war to carry bags for him or worse still, use her as a shield for bullets :(

April 03, 2011 2:13 PM

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