The fact that the consumer attitude to nature is unacceptable has long been repeated by many religious and public figures. Today, the scientific world is also beginning to assert that, along with the degenerating nature, people are definitely degenerating. This is expressed not only in the spiritual, but also in the physical weakening of a person. Happiness and the personality itself fall apart, because mental balance is disturbed.
The urban lifestyle strongly affects the development of children. Everyone recognizes that respect for nature must be nurtured from an early age. However, our children learn the world of plants and animals from pictures in books, movies and television programs. It is unlikely that such preparation for life can teach them the habits of the animal world and make them feel the life of the forest, teach signs that precede the change of seasons.
Despite the fact that urbanization has reached significant heights in Japan, they neutralize its negative impact on children, developing their respect for nature. To do this, the program of studying various subjects includes mandatory trips and excursions, as well as everything in the schoolundergo a permanent course of "admiring nature".
As a result, Japanese schoolchildren, even in conditions of radical urbanization, retained the ability to distinguish up to two hundred color shades. In our well-developed children, this ability is ten times lower, because under the same conditions they were able to distinguish only twenty. Of course, this indicates the scarcity of the habitat in which they are located, the poverty of perception of the world and their indifferent attitude to nature.
What's the difference between natural history and admiring nature? Admiration means admiration. Teachers in Japan do not just form certain knowledge and respect for nature, but develop an aesthetic perception of the world, qualities that are very important for a successful life.
If we compare our natural resources, with their richest flora and fauna, and Japanese, it's hard to even imagine what kind of abilities our schoolchildren would have if they were also taught admiring?! All our emotions develop in the process of cognition. At the same time, only adults, performing certain actions, play a decisive role in the manifestation and consolidation of certain feelings in children, capable of developing not only a caring attitude towards nature, but also a whole range of certain character traits.
For example, aesthetics are the emotional attitudes of people towards everything that can be admired not only in nature, but also in art and,in general, in life. Of course, a teacher whose feelings for the environment were brought up in the lessons of natural history will not be able to develop in his students a perception of the world better than he feels it himself.
Therefore, in conclusion, I would like to urge parents to take responsibility for their children and, putting aside the endless domestic fuss and ghostly worry about material things, start teaching their children lessons in admiring nature, at least once a week. Find time and opportunity to turn to the origins of life, so that together we can learn to admire the wonderful world in which we still live.
