Maung Thar Cho - Community Affairs Readings

The title is also given by the teacher.

( one)

Because I am involved in the team that is rewriting the school curriculum, sometimes I have to sit in the meeting room called by the team. I listen to what each person in charge has to say, and I speak up when I should.

One time, the topic of discussion was a storyboard. When I opened the draft book, I saw the illustrations that were the basis of the story.

A flagpole is planted. A line is crossed. Two animals are ready to run. One is a rabbit, the other is a tortoise. In another, the rabbit is sleeping next to a bush with a pillow. The tortoise is moving. In the next picture, the rabbit wakes up from sleep. Then he runs. In the last picture, the rabbit is exhausted and his head hangs down. Next to him, the tortoise is holding the finish line flag and celebrating.

The lesson is where the child looks at the pictures and tells a story of their choice.

I think the reader will smile. I don't know if you've already concluded that it's easy. Yes, it is. Easy is very easy.

The hare and the tortoise were racing. The hare, mistaking the tortoise for the hare, fell asleep on the road. He fell asleep, but when he woke up, the tortoise, who had been chasing him for a long time, had already reached his goal. Isn't that right?

I advised against using the story because it was already familiar to the people of that country. A teacher asked if the child knew it. I said that some children might know it, and even if the child didn't, if someone at home, such as a father, mother, brother, or sister, knew it, then I could tell it to my child. So what would be the point of retelling the story to the child if the child already knew it? The teacher was at a loss for an answer.

I have to ask why they added that lesson. Is it for the child's reading ability? No. Is it for writing ability? No. Is it for listening ability? No. Is it for speaking ability? No.

Then the teacher gave us a lesson on imagination. Good. Imagination lesson. Creative Thinking lesson. This is also necessary in modern education.

However. So, why is it that the teacher, who wanted to stimulate the imagination, based the lesson on a story that is familiar to people and that most people are familiar with? The teacher said with very serious eyes, "Yes, sir." I'll find a story.

( 2 years)

Every advanced country's basic education curriculum includes lessons that stimulate the imagination.

When you flip through a book, you write about five lines of a story. Then continue writing as you like.

In another book, there is a full-page, full-color illustration. Look at the picture and tell me what you like. There is no mistake, no truth. Tell me exactly what you imagine. Let's laugh. It's so funny and free and fun.

Lessons that allow you to imagine, lessons that allow you to say whatever you want, lessons that make you laugh, lessons that make you let go, lessons that make you laugh, lessons that make you forget that school is a school.

( three)

Albert Einstein, the Man of the Century and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, said that imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge , a famous quote he once said. The compass his father gave him when he was young, with its north and south lines, was what sparked his unbridled imagination.

Have you ever seen a child playing with two square wooden blocks? In his world, in his imagination, those two wooden blocks are everything he wants to be. He doesn't know what is reasonable or unreasonable, he doesn't know.

( four)

One day, an officer in an armed group approached an old man on the side of the road who said he was borrowing a book.

Teacher. I would like to submit a thesis for you. A famous teacher in that field asked. Yes, that's right. What is the title of the thesis?

The officer was taken aback. He thought to himself, "Is this a question that shouldn't be asked?" Look at the way he answered.

" Sir... if you have a job to do, I'll give you the title. I'll think of the title of my research, sir."

Look. How my imagination has dried up. I can't even think about what I'm going to write. I'm giving my ideas to others.

Let's start with stories that won't repeat themselves in the classroom, stories that we like to tell ourselves.

Message

During an interview with a world-renowned news magazine, they asked what your job was, and you replied that you were writing history.

Newspapers are the ones who write history.

This is a compilation of all the articles written in the 7Day Daily newspaper that have not yet been made into a book.

I want you to understand that what is called a draft is incomplete, incomplete, and incomplete.

Maung Tha Cho