We were not trained!
Our upbringing has been nothing more than to respect our elders, not to say bad words, not to extend our legs in front of others, to listen, to greet everyone in the morning, to wash our hands and face with soap, to wear clean clothes, to touch our nose with our hands. Let’s not go and…
But they did not teach us the simplest and most essential issues of life.
Where did they teach us how to breathe, how to get rid of anxiety, what is success, what is the problem of marriage, how to behave in the face of opposition…
In our childhood, we were taught not to be cynical, but we were not taught questioning, free thinking, and methods of criticism.
Douglas Cecil North, an American economist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993, says: “If you want to know whether a country is developing or not, don’t look at the industries and factories of that country.” These can be easily bought or stolen or copied. You can sell oil and import all these. To be able to predict the future of a country, go to elementary schools; See how they teach children there. It doesn’t matter what they teach; See how they teach. If they raise their children to be inquisitive, creative, patient, disciplined, risk-taking, conversational and interactive and have the spirit of collective participation and group cooperation, you can be sure that that country is a few steps away from sustainable and extensive development.”
From “breathing” to “traveling” to “loving” it needs training. Part of our mental and physical health depends on “correct breathing”.
Do we have to go to yoga in our youth or middle age or even old age to understand that there are different types of breathing and what is its correct form and how important is it?!
We were not even taught to look. Nothing needs training as much as “look”. The one who knows how to see lives in another world; A world that has not been smelled by the viewers.
A thousand kilometers, we go from one city to another and when we return home, we cannot write a few lines about what we have seen. why Because we have not actually seen it. Everything has passed before our eyes; Like the wind blowing on iron.
John Ruskin, the great teacher of looking, said in the 19th century: “If it were up to me, I would make drawing lessons mandatory in all schools in the world so that children learn to look at things correctly before they get used to cursory glances.”
He used to say: “A person who goes to design classes to be forced to look at nature and his surroundings better and more accurately is more artistic than a person who goes to nature to improve in design.”
If we had learned how to look, how to hear and how to think at home or school, we would have been a different person.
A person who cannot use his eyes, ears and tongue properly has not stepped out of the primitive cave; Although the cavemen’s paintings show that they were not strangers to “look”.
There are many fathers who do not know that if they provide everything in the world for their daughter, it will not give her peace and self-confidence as much as hugging her and kissing her once.
We look for wonders in the skies, but we have not once stared at the branch of the tree that is oppressively tall in front of our house.
Looking, hearing, speaking, breathing, walking, sleeping, traveling, playing, having fun, being affectionate, loving, marrying and protesting need a teacher and education more than spelling and essay.
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