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Children Full of Life: "You come to school to be happy...

namaste123 2013. 5. 4. 00:01





“Empathy is the greatest thing. There’s an expression I love: 
‘Let people live in your heart. 

Toshiro Kanamori, 4th grade teacher


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"You come to school to be happy. Everyone must be happy. 
If one person is unhappy... everybody will be unhappy..."  

"Do not rush! Just hang in there..."   


- Tomodachi ga (from a friend)










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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." 

Henry Brooks Adams



Mr. Kanamori, a teacher of a 4th grade class, teaches his students not only how to be students, but how to live. He gives them lessons on teamwork, community, the importance of openness, how to cope, and the harm caused by bullying.

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.

Toshiro is an amazing example of what all teachers across the world should be like. He truly understands what teaching children is all about and certainly made a positive difference in the lives of these 10 year olds.


http://www.zenmoments.org/children-full-of-life/