The fact that the consumer attitude to nature is unacceptable has long been asserted by many religious and public figures. Today, the scientific world is also beginning to assert that, along with degenerate nature, people are definitely degenerating. This is expressed not only in the spiritual, but also in the physical weakening of a person. Happiness and the personality itself are falling apart, because mental balance is disturbed.
Urban lifestyle is strongly reflected in the development of children. Everyone recognizes that respect for nature must be brought up from an early age. However, our children study the world of plants and animals from pictures in books, movies and television programs. It is unlikely that such a preparation for life can teach them the habits of the animal world and make them feel the life of the forest, teach the signs that precede the change of seasons.
Despite the fact that in Japan, urbanization has reached significant heights, they neutralize its negative impact on children, developing a respect for nature in them. To do this, the program for studying various subjects includes compulsory trips and excursions, as well as everyone at the school who goes through a regular course of "admiring nature."
As a result, Japanese students, even in conditions of radical urbanization, retained the ability to distinguish up to two hundred color shades. Our well-developed children have such an ability ten times lower, because under the same conditions they were able to distinguish only twenty. Of course, this indicates the scarcity of the environment in which they are located, the poor perception of the world and their indifferent attitude to nature.
What is the difference between natural history and admiring nature? Admiring means admiration. Teachers in Japan not only form certain knowledge and respect for nature, but also develop an aesthetic perception of the world, qualities that are very important for a successful life.
If we compare our natural resources, with their rich flora and fauna, and the Japanese, it’s hard to even imagine what kind of abilities our schoolchildren possess if they were taught to admire ?! All our emotions develop in the process of cognition. Moreover, only adults, committing certain acts, play a decisive role in the manifestation and consolidation in children of certain feelings that can develop not only a careful attitude to nature, but also a whole range of certain character properties.
For example, aesthetics is the emotional relationship of people to everything that can be admired not only in nature, but also in art and, in general, in life. Of course, a teacher whose feelings for the environment were brought up in natural history classes will not be able to develop his students' perception of the world better than he perceives it.
Therefore, in conclusion, I want to urge my parents to take responsibility for their children and, putting aside the endless bustle of the home and phantom anxiety about the material, begin to independently teach our children lessons in admiring nature, at least once a week. Take the time and the opportunity to turn to the origins of life in order to learn how to admire everyone in that wonderful world in which we still live.
