5 days seminar!!!!!

I'll be attending a 5 days seminar starting tomoro! It'll start on coming MOnday til Friday and it'll be conducted form 8am til 9.30pm! It's specially for chinese school teachers and some parents from chinese school. I was 'honoured' to be asked to go with some of the teachers in my school and it was fully paid by the school. I was kinda shocked when i receive the letter from the school to ask me to go. But luckily some of my close colleagues are going too. Furthermore, it's in UKM, my previous Uni! And esp my friends and my partner is around there too! So i'm not really looking forward for the 8am-9.30pm time everyday but looking forward to the time out of that range where i can go and look for my friends! So it's not really a bad news for me after all!

Some intro about the seminar i'm going....

Introduction of Di Zi Gui

"The Chinese culture has been deeply influenced by Confucius, a great Chinese teacher and educator. His influence extends throughout the world even today. Confucius believed that moral principles, virtues and discipline should be the very first lessons taught to a child, and that children need to practice them daily. Unlike modern-day parents who disapprove of physical punishment, ancient Chinese parents actually encouraged and thanked the teacher when their children were punished for misbehaving. It was most important to the ancient Chinese parents that their children learned moral principles and virtues first – before any other subjects, because without these as a foundation, the learning of all other subjects would be futile. In ancient China, the purpose of going to school and studying was to prepare for becoming saints and sages, not to pave the way for fame or making a profit.

Di Zi Gui, in English, means standards for being a good student and child. It is the guide to a happy life. For thousand of years, this book contained the recommended standards for students. Even though they seem stringent by today’s standards, it is apparent that the people of that time felt it was important that the child should be well-disciplined and taught moral principles and virtues when still very young. They felt that without strict discipline and moral standards, a child would amount to nothing. Not knowing what it meant to be dutiful to parents and respectful to teachers, a child would grow up not listening to or respecting anyone. Ironically today many parents listen to the child instead of the other way around. Additionally, teachers are afraid to teach and discipline children because they are fearful of violating the children’s legal rights and being sued by the parents.

Currently, we live in a tumultuous world where the relationships among people, between people and their environment, parents and children, husbands and wives, and employers and employees are disintegrating. Parents do not act like parents. Children do not act like children. Our minds are polluted and our family system is disintegrating, as evidenced by an ever increasing divorce rate. Soon the planet Earth will no longer be fir for us to live on. We are fearful for our futures and the futures of our children. In reintroducing this boos, we hope it will serve as reference material and provide guidance for parents and children. Thus, future generations will benefit from it and society and our world will be at peace."

So....
Wish me all the best and hope i learn something from this seminar.