Day +94

I am fine today.

Back to the video I mentioned yesterday regarding children learning. The speaker said many parents wish to learn from her on how to teach their children because her 4 children managed to enter university at ages between 9 to 12 years old. Many parents thought that the speaker possesses some secrete recipes on how to teach her children to learn. Acquiring the secrete recipe and teach their children step by step according to the secrete recipe, just like cooking “Nasi Lemak” (Coconut Rice) according to its recipe, their children will become as brilliant as the speaker’s.

Even though the title of the video in Chinese contained the word “秘诀” (Secrete), the speaker talked about principle. And the principle is “Each child is different and they are created in the image of God. We have to respect them.” Since each child is unique, there is no way we can develop a recipe of smart learning that works for every children. Further to this, we have to be extra cautious when some speakers or authors provide secrete recipes or equations that promise wisdom, health, happy life and wealth. They will tell you, “Now just follow these. Step 1 … Step 2 … Step 3… then you will be billionaire!” Human are not computers that can be controlled by computer program (step by step instructions) to produce desirable tasks. Therefore talking about principle is lot more practical than talking recipes.

The speaker is a chemist and her husband is a doctor. They could make a great fortune by writing books that provide secrete recipes on children learning. But they both become preacher and tell everyone human are created in the image of God, and the Bible is human operation manual. This means human have to live their life according to those principles recorded in the Bible.

See you next post :-)