【教育專欄】良知和教育（6）
編者按：
每個人都有自己喜歡的生活方式， Diego 和 Anna很幸運，因為他們有著共同喜歡的生活方式。編者認為，這種生活方式給他們帶來的最大好處就是：“擁有整個世界”不再是一句空談。諾大的世界就是他們的家，他們遊歷八方的經歷所產生的各種感受、世界觀、人生理念或許是顛覆性的，且極具震撼力。澳門導報希望把他們的經歷分享給廣大讀者。(瀏覽連載請關注網站www.am-zm.com 學術與觀察/百家專欄 )
原創：Diego and Anna
作者：安娜•卡倫娜 Anna Caranta
翻譯：Ayla櫻子
校對、編輯：Sicily、Diego
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激發孩子的想像力和直覺力
孩子擁有與生俱來的想像力，去創造一個奇幻的世界，通過傾聽現實的片段來構建一個虛擬的世界。孩子通常有著非常強的直覺力，他們會在對一個人，某個地方或某個環境感覺到焦慮的時候立馬放聲大哭。其實每個人的內在都有這些能力，可惜的是在大人的世界裡通常會把連接這兩者的紐帶割斷：想像力和直覺力。儘管這兩者是無形的，儘管這兩者不需要參加考試，但這兩者會在人的一生扮演非常重要的角色：跟隨你的本能，你的直覺，是通向你內在神性的唯一通道，也是探索和發現真理的最好方式。儘管我們身處一個資訊爆炸的時代，但依然還有很多未知的部分。而且事實上這些未知的領域遠遠未被看見。如我所說，我們生在一個競爭激烈的時代。即使這樣，一個能追隨內心衝動和本能的人，是可以開創新的道路，通過想像力他得以換一種方式思考和行動，成為自己人生的設計師，進而讓自己的人生充滿各種可能性。這也可以解釋為什麼想像力可以讓我們從信息的海洋中抽離出來，因為我們早已有了新的準備。失去想像力，剩下的只有模仿和重複。我不知道你是否會問我怎麼激發想像力？正如我前面所說，其實它就在那裡，我們要做的不是激發它，而是停止破壞它。騰出一些自由的時間去玩吧，因為想像力會在遊戲中無限延伸，讓孩子們做他們自己吧，尊重他們真實的情感表達。
THE IMAGINATION AND THE INSTINCT: WHAT WE SHOULD STIMULATE IN CHILDREN
Children have innate the ability to imagine, to create fantastic worlds. They listen and with pieces of reality construct a huge fictional world. Children have a strong intuition: if they dislike a person, a thing, a place, or an idea the baby will cry as soon as they feel a tension. They have it there, within them, and unfortunately the adult world is often dedicated to destroy those invisible ties with these two impalpable aspects of life: the imagination and the instinct. Even if these two aspects are impalpable and have no school exams are essential for a lifetime: following your instinct, your intuition, is the only way to be walking the path closer to our true essence, it is the best way to reach discoveries and truths. We live in a world of information, however much remains to be discovered. In fact, what remains to be discovered cannot be seen. We live in a very competitive world, as I said. Although who has the ability to follow the own instinct, to create the own path, to imagine new ways of thinking, and to act, that person will be able to be the architect of his life, and to live it as fully as possible. That is why imagination allows us to take off from the information. That we already have to invent new steps, no matter what one does. Without imagination there is only imitation and repetition. Will you ask me how to encourage that? As I told you, that is in all of us, what needs to be done is not to encourage it, but to stop destroying it. Leave free hours of play, because in the game the imagination has no limits. Let the child express their self, and respect their feelings, their feelings.
“想讓孩子變得聰明嗎？請講故事給他們聽。想讓孩子變得更聰明一些嗎？那就講更多的故事。”這裡我又引用了愛因斯坦的話，他不僅是偉大的科學家，也是一位偉大的人類學家。給孩子講故事可以使孩子發展自己的詞匯，而豐富的詞匯是我們進行思考的基礎，我們掌握越多的詞匯，我們就能越充分地表達自己和思考。同時這也會餵養我們的想像力——用來創造虛擬世界的能力。而且，當父母和孩子們一起讀故事時，就營造了一個共情時刻，就可以一起討論故事，發表意見，像是和孩子們一起進入了奇妙的文字世界裡旅行，這是一種和孩子建立關係以及和孩子產生交流的很棒的方式。在閱讀裡會有很多話題可以聊到，會有幾個小時的談話和反射的內容的呈現。
“Do you want children to be smart? Read them stories. Do you want them to be smarter? Read more stories”. Yes, again I quote Einstein, who besides being a great scientist was a great humanist. Reading stories to the children will allow them to develop more vocabulary. And words are the basis of our thinking. The more vocabulary we have the more we can express ourselves and think. It also feeds the imagination, the ability to go to fictional worlds and accentuate it. Also, if parents and children read stories together, it will be a moment of complicity. They can then comment on the novel they are reading, they will have in common with your son or daughter being traveling fantastic worlds together. It is a wonderful way to establish bonds and communication with your little ones. So many themes come out when reading a novel. They are hours of shared conversation and reflection.