Teacher Tang, the Life Mentor (3)
Teacher Tang was very patient and replied, “Three and a half years old is not too young. In the city, you can already attend kindergarten at your age, it’s already the age for enrollment. Unfortunately, our village does not have the facilities, so I can only teach you based on your aptitude.”
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Jiang Xiaoman finally felt a bit better and stopped crying.
Teacher Tang continued talking after she calmed down. “We have a common teacher called Confucius. He said that interest is the best teacher, and there is no end on the road to knowledge. It is different when the Teacher forces you to study and when you wish to study out of your own will. I can force you to study, but what I want is for you to develop the desire yourself.”
“Why?”
Even now, for example, Jiang Xiaoman had previously planned not to come to school again tomorrow. But after Teacher Tang talked to her, she was no longer as determined to do so.
She was afraid that Teacher Tang would be sad and whispered, “I don’t want to. It’s enough for me to learn from Teacher Tang...”
Teacher Tang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. After thinking for a while, he decided not to linger on this issue anymore.
“Xiaoman, last time, where did you learn about the idiom ‘haste makes waste’?“
“I... My friend told me.”
Oh, so it was her friend. A child’s friend would probably just be another child. It was no wonder she only had a partial understanding.
Teacher Tang said, “There’s a little problem with your understanding. I will explain it to you again today, and I will also tell you another story. After you listen to it, you will understand why you must learn some things by yourself.”
Jiang Xiaoman liked listening to stories the most. “What story?”
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
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