Video: What should children read?
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
It is much easier to meet people who have read a huge number of books than those who can appreciate the merits of this or that book for the development of the human soul. Usually, it does not go beyond expressing one's own feelings or monosyllabic categorical assessments of the last book read.
Reading books is not a pleasant pastime or entertainment, but a means of personal development, enrichment with life experience. But for many adults, unfortunately, this is precisely the first. Or a reason for exposing yourself in the eyes of those around you as a refined connoisseur of literary delights.
And now, attention is the most important thing.
The most important meaning and main purpose of reading fiction consists in the knowledge of the human soul, a stranger and one's own, in the knowledge of one's soul in the future, in the knowledge of the soul of the opposite sex in order to, once having met, recognize a person with whom you can build a strong family, give birth and raise good children.
The book gives knowledge of life. To know life means to know people in their diversity and impermanence, in their baseness and greatness. It is possible, and without reading books, to know life, but books "shorten our experiences of fast-flowing life" (A. S. Pushkin. "Boris Godunov").
A huge number of books require life experience and maturity for their full understanding. But despite this, the most important books should be read by around the age of 20m, i.e. to the beginning of an independent life. Further life teaches life itself.
Indeed, when work and family begin, reading fiction ends, because there is already no time to read.
The next time to immerse yourself in reading comes when children grow up, i.e. by the age of 40-50, when there is a rethinking of the part of life lived, and when it is still possible to correct something.
A person reads in old age, but this reading has almost no effect on his daily affairs and fate, it only changes his attitude to what he has lived through.
So, before the age of 20, the most important books must be read, but for this, by the age of 10, a love of reading and a taste for good books must be instilled in spite of the temptations of television and computer games. By the age of 10, parents finish reading books. Further, they act only as advisers and interlocutors. But this also requires the application of mental strength and creativity.
They say that "to become wise, you need to read 10 books, but to find these 10, you need to read thousands." At the same time, it is silent that after these ten are finally found, I should get those thousands out of my head … But this is not possible, so children should only be given the top 10.
People tend to remember their childhood years with warmth.
But the idealization of what was seen in childhood prevents a critical rethinking of everything that happened. This also applies to books.
More often people read to their children what they themselves read in childhood, or generally rely on the mark "childish" and believe that anything will do. However, the latter is not true. The world of books is as diverse as the world of people.
Among the people around us, there are few of those whom we can really trust, whose vision of the world is close to ours, and whose advice, therefore, will be useful to us. Likewise, among the writers there are many who left us nothing more than the spiritual products of their life.
Children need to be protected from the influence of people whose worldview is alien to us, because, although children will grow up, they are with us for life.
So: the most important task of every adult - after rethinking what you have read, clean your bookshelf of unnecessary things and supplement those that are missing, and pass on this spiritual heritage to children.
From ed.
As an illustration to the black list of Authors, we can cite Mukhu-tsokotukha, written by the Jew Korney Chukovsky, who was friends with the founder of Zionism, Zhabotinsky:
The main deed of the Spider in the fairy tale is the murder of the Fly. And so, the author gave this tragic scene the following features:
1. an act of violence is committed.
2. The torment of a living and conscious victim is presented as a long process.
3. A sharp cutting tool is used.
4. The abuser acts in cold blood, enjoying the torture of the victim.
5. vampirism: the blood of a tempered, but still living victim is drunk.
Usually, in a traditional fairy tale, the hero helps out the heroine before the villain begins to fulfill his dark plans, because the rules of the fairy tale genre are focused on protecting good and limiting evil, and, of course, there can be no vampirism in any normal fairy tale.
Some researchers find encrypted Masonic and religious rituals in this tale. But, probably, there is no such Soviet child who would not have met this tale. Moreover, the acquaintance was so close that several lines (usually the first six or eight) were firmly embedded in the child's memory, like some kind of indelible seal. And inscribed on this seal is clearly not a harmless tale about the victory of good over evil.
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