【教育專欄】良知和教育（7）
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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讓孩子和世界一起變得更美好
我們會對所身處的世界產生很多的抱怨。有一部分人感到自己機械地被動地活著，一部分人感到被孤獨和競爭籠罩著，還有一部分人感覺到生活是很空洞乏味的，以至於他們覺得生活的目的就是去擁有和消耗更多的東西。這也是我們為什麼想讓孩子知道的一個簡單的事實：如果你無法滿足於少量的所需，那你也不會滿足於更多的東西。請不要再灌輸他們：消費＝快樂。這樣只會促使他們想得到更多的物質，而並非接近他們內在神性裡更需要的精髓。我們所處的體制告訴我們要讓孩子變得更加有競爭力。不妨讓我們試著以簡單的姿勢，以及行動和話語去告訴他們其實還有比贏更重要的東西：那就是你努力達到人生的意義的態度。告訴他們如果可以停下來和朋友一起跑到終點，比起為了讓自己一人跑到終點而拉下朋友，甚至還把朋友推倒的行為是更有意義的。快樂的基礎來自於相互支持。同理心是孩子們必須從小就學到的一種品質：
有了同理心的孩子長大會成為更好的人，更棒的朋友和同事，更好的丈夫和妻子，也會是更好的爸爸和媽媽。還有，寬容和尊重不同差異也是我們應該引導孩子去擁有的品質。
GROWING KIDS FOR A BETTER WORLD
We complain many times about the world we live in. Many feel trapped in machinery that nobody can stop. Many suffer the loneliness and competitiveness that surrounds them. Many feel the emptiness that a life might offer them in which the main objective is to have more to consume more. That is why we have to be able to transmit to children that simple truth: if you are not happy with little, you will not be happy with much.Stop merging in their minds consumption = happiness. That is to push them to always want more, and never get closer to their essence to feel truly filled. The system we live in is competitive and that is why it teaches children to be competitive. Let us try with simple gestures with our actions, with our words, to share to our sons and daughters that there is something more important than winning: and it is the attitude one has to reach personal goals. Remind them that it is much better to stop along the way to help a friend and reach the finish line together, than to leave the friend in the floor or push him to fall and reach the goal alone. Solidarity is a basis for happiness. Empathy is a concept that children would have to learn from very young: put themselves in the feet of the other, do that exercise that may seem difficult but that is, with a little practice, quite simple. Being empathetic allows us to be better humans, better friends, better colleagues, better husbands and wife, better fathers and mothers. Tolerance and respect for difference are qualities that we have to stimulate in our sons/daughters.
平衡感及和諧感，也是看似無形卻也是非常重要的品質。這裡指的不僅是維持社區和人際關係的和諧，還有生態環境的和諧。時至今日，人類已經意識到我們生存的這個地球不能再維繫我們的生活了，需要面臨的生態和人類危機牽繫著我們每個人的命運，不管我們往銀行裡存了多少錢，如果我們生存的空氣變得不可忍受，地球變成了一個巨大的荒漠，食物因為農藥殘留引發越來越多的疾病，這是每個人都需要擔心的。正如我前面提到的，如果要教育孩子，那我們需要從自我教育開始。儘管有時候會很難做到，但是很有意義的。
Balance and harmony, are impalpable, but fundamental values. Not only within the community and personal relationships. But also with our ecological environment. Day by day, the human realizes that the planet on which we live will not be able to sustain us much more time: the ecological and human crisis we are going through concern all of us, no matter how much money we have in the bank account. If the air becomes irrespirable, if the planet becomes a great desert, if the food we cook every day causes serious illness because it is too toxic, that concerns to all. As I said at the beginning, in order to educate children we must educate ourselves. It is difficult work sometimes, but very valuable.