Children Full of Life (2 of 5)

"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."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• CBC
• The Passionate Eye
• Children Full of Life
• Toshiro Kanamori
• japan
• school
• education
• teaching
• japanese
• empathy
• compassion
• bullying
• teasing
• life
• learning
• lesson

[FlawdaFootball]

The average 10 year old in that class has more emotional intelligence than the average American high school student, it's sad.

[MarioSavioTZM]

I hope this kind of education can be realized further. The world is such a mess because of an inherited culture of fear. We raise children in our own image to prepare them for the way the world is, not to equip them with the knowledge they need to re-design it around our true compassionate and empathatic nature. Let's take our kids out of state schools. Let's give talks at our local schools on this topics. Talk with our neighbours. Let's stop emotionally abusing our kids.

[OpenendsProductions]

Wonderful documentary, Very important to share teachers ways of teaching, because a personal vision from the heart of a teacher towards a student is worth more that any any premashed learning books taught rationally. Thankyou for making and sharing

[melarniii]

All theese guys in here.. In this class by this AWESOME teacher will be great people in the future. Well, of course, they are great now too, but, you know, they will be great.. you know what i mean.. i hope so. and i decided that i want my children to live in Japan! to study in Japan! I think that there are maany great people. not like here in europe.... so a want to my children a great teacher like this one, great classmates like theese ones.

P.S. sorry for my bad english.. i am still studying

[Ryoko48]

This reminded me of a weird difference in asian and western education. In asia (or at least where I came from), it is those who perform poorly in school that are picked on and looked down upon, whereas in western schools it seems to be the high performers who are degraded as 'nerds' and ostracized.

[Rockabilly500]

What was really wonderful is that at this age they are being taught the truth about where children come from, not being fed lies that stunt their intellectual growth.

[KTKristiey]

God, I wish teachers in Australia were that awesome...

[MelboyPhotography]

This show is the best. The Passionate Eye :)

[OtonaGorilla]

素晴らしい道徳教育だ。

道徳教育には反対派が懸念しているような負の側面もあると思って­るけど、それは教師の正しい教育方法によって帳消しになる。こう­いうのはどんどんやって欲しい。

[shazzah199708]

if only things were like this at my school, maybe then I wouldn't have suffered for 15 months after giving up on the hope that my teachers would help me.This class of 10 year old children restores a bit of my faith in the world, origato kanamori-san

[jtown1bb]

Ayami! I want to give you a big hug!

[rushy4321]

So when does the happy year start? :((((((((((