Friday, August 6, 2010
The Curious Kid
The following is a piece of dialogue adapted from a japanese drama series, "Edi No Haha" (Edison's Mother). In a fine sunny day, the kids planned to get out to a small house to play. Unfortunately, they got the house on fire. Coincidentally, their class teacher passed by that house...

Teacher: Kids!!

Children: Teacher!

Teacher: Why are you all here?

Children: This is our secret hang out place...

Teacher: Secret hang out place? Did you set the house on fire?!

Student 1: No! It's not us! It's Hana! He brought a lighter and set it on fire!
Student 2: That's right! He asked us to play fire together!

Teacher: Hana!!

Hana: Teacher... The fire is great! It's so great! A few drops of water can't put out the fire, covering it with a mat doesn't put it out either! It's yellow and red and it dances too! The sound of it is funny, as if it was talking! But it's very hot and scary sometimes. But it dies away when we use the fire extinguisher.

Teacher: Hana! Did you set the house on fire!?

Hana: Yea, I lighted up the candle...

Teacher: Did you ask the other children to play fire with you!?

Hana: Yes... Yes I did... (with a regretful tone)

Teacher: Why? Why do you always do these kind of things?!
At this moment, the teacher saw that Hana's hand had a burnt wound and hugged him tightly.

The next day, Hana was sitting alone by a side. A university professor saw him sitting alone and went over to him.

Professor: Cheer up! Don't be sad and down just because you face failure on your discovery and learning process. How your invention on the time machine?

Hana: (Started crying) If only I had a time machine, then I could go back to yesterday and tell myself not to bring the lighter to the secret hang out place.

Postscript:

This incident made the school and parents so worried. The parents were afraid and asked for Hana to leave the school for their children's sake. However, the children don't want Hana to go, hence they got together and went back to the house and searched for some proof. They found out that it wasn't all Hana's fault on this incident, thus they got back to the school and decided to tell the truth. At the end, Hana get to stay in the school.

All he ever wanted was to share his knowledge with the other children and to make people happy. All this while the other children has learned and grew with his influence. It's the same as Thomas Edison when he was little. His actions were unacceptable and was thought to be troublesome. The people rejected him and neglected his curiosity. However, his mother believed in his potential and gave him the right education. And at the end, he's a famous person who had contributed a lot to the world now. If we could just protect our children patiently, and to believe them from within the heart, to support and to encourage them continuously, we could all be Edison's mother then.

It is important for us, PICs to discover their possibility and potential, to listen to them when they needed us. If you haven't done that, let's start from today. When we start to listen to the children, they build their trust on us. The future division is our treasure, our sun, our successor. Their growth is our organization's development and future, hence, we need to foster and encourage them into confident individuals. We should train them to be a person who could do things of a thousand people, meaning to say that they have a great ability to contribute and carry out their actions. This is the capable people we need in the organization!

There's a Youth Division who once asked the Sensei "How should we foster the future division in this low birth rate era?"

Sensei said: "This is an important issue, I'm thinking about it too! Future Division decides the organization's future. Every single person is even more important now since it's a low birth rate era. Hence, we have to value every single person, and we must foster every person to have the ability to do a thousand people's work. This is also why I exerted myself fully on education, to foster the future division. I depend on all of you!"


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