Chapter 48 Chapter 48

◎The Gentle Killing Knife (Part 2)◎

The parents and the audience watching the live broadcast were unable to immediately understand the difference between what Lian Jiu said and what the previous parents meant.

Even the other parents in the Jiujian observation room were a little confused, so he gently said, "As children grow older, their cognitive abilities will improve. As long as they can distinguish between good and evil, they will understand many principles and rules in daily life. However, our world is huge, and when children are born and encounter it for the first time, it will always be unfamiliar. If we don't guide them, they won't understand."

"Right!" Qin Wenxuan clapped his hands in agreement. "That's exactly what I meant! If I ever have children, I'd prefer they go to Principal Lian Jiu's kindergarten!"

The other parents felt that their previous parenting methods were being rejected. They were overwhelmed and looked unhappy. They had no choice but to ask another senior teacher, "What do you think, Principal Zheng?"

"It depends on the situation," Zheng Ye said. "Every kindergarten is different. The children in our kindergarten come from better-off families and face more challenges. So, in many cases, we provide them with an elite education based on their parents' wishes."

The parents' expressions eased a little.

At this moment, Zheng Ye glanced at Lian Jiu again and smiled, "But I also really like Principal Lian Jiu's ideas. You may not know this, but our kindergarten has previously exchanged ideas with Principal Lian Jiu's kindergarten. We each have our strengths, so it depends on the situation. I respect Lian Jiu's ideas very much."

The parents are being led in circles again. Is there any difference between saying it and not saying it?

What an old fox.

But in fact, the audience in the live broadcast room can see it more clearly.

Nowadays, it is not just those parents who watch the live broadcast, but also many young people who are raising their children online. As bystanders, they can see things more clearly and understand what Zheng Ye means at once.

The educational model of aristocratic kindergartens is different because of family reasons and parental requirements. Children who want a higher starting point must understand the rules better than ordinary people and learn more.

But apart from these reasons, Director Zheng Ye actually likes Lian Jiu's idea very much.

[To be honest, I raise my child online just to see him happy.]

[Yeah, I'm so busy at work all day, and I want to see the carefree kids having fun, but when I see them behaving like they're at work, I get so depressed.]

【So it’s not easy to be the child of a rich person. 】

【See what happens when kids get together.】

The live broadcast camera has been placed in a large classroom and all the children have been brought over.

Compared with the neatly dressed children in other kindergartens, the kids in Monster Kindergarten wear ears and tails, which is very special.

The human children were very curious about these children, but in order to remain polite, they did not rush up to them.

The little monsters had already come into contact with human cubs in kindergarten, so now they saw that these children were no different from Wang Shuishui and Wang Jun, and they didn’t feel scared.

But Teacher Lian Jiu said that this time the children came to make new friends and play with them, so they were all very active.

Yuan Qing has perfectly integrated into the senior class and is now a qualified leader. He puts his hands in his pockets and walks ahead confidently: "Come on, brother will take you to meet the other children."

The human child sat obediently in his chair, his eyes following the little guy with a stupid hair on his head.

"Ahem." Yuan Qing straightened the collar of his blazer and extended a hand, very gentlemanly. "Hello, we are the little demon cubs from the demon kindergarten. Would you like to be friends?"

[Hahahahahahaha my Yuan Qing is so cute, what a little devil! ]

[He looks like a little prince.]

A few human children know this etiquette: when others want to make friends, they must be polite and not refuse.

Then several human children stood up and said: "Hello, you can make friends."

"Then let's introduce ourselves first," Yuan Qing said. "My name is Yuan Qing, and I'm a... bird demon. Children, come on, introduce yourselves to the human children!"

If an adult said this, it would be a bit strange, but when it came from a child, the audience didn't think so and even kept saying it was cute.

The best world for children is one that is full of imagination and beauty!

Jiang An also pulled up her skirt and knelt down to salute like the little princess she had seen in the storybooks before: "Hello, I am Jiang An, Princess An An, the deer demon."

The little peacock spirit shook its tail and said, "I am the peacock spirit, Kong Xinxin."

The turtle cub's tail was too short to wag, so it turned around and revealed its shell: "I'm the turtle cub, Fang Manman."

The little carp spirit held a small basin of water and blew friendly bubbles to the children: "I am a little carp, Li Paopao."

All of these words confused the human children.

But! These monsters are so cool!

They also want to be monsters, they must be very special!

But my teacher and mom said I couldn’t embarrass myself on TV.

The human children just had to force themselves to be patient and introduce themselves one by one. At that time, there were no categories of monsters, so they had to talk about what they were good at.

Now the comparison is complete.

The children in the aristocratic kindergarten are learning almost everything and are good at everything. Some of them are even learning several languages.

Children in ordinary kindergartens also have one or two special skills to learn.

Only the children in the monster kindergarten are good at pretending to be monsters.

The intern teacher was a young singer. Seeing that the children had already introduced themselves without being reminded, she asked them to sit down and said, "Would you like me to teach you a song today?"

All the children were very serious about studying: "Okay!"

The singing teacher sat down in front of the piano and said, "Teacher, play a line, and you sing along."

Kong Xinxin asked Yuan Qing: "Brother Yuan Qing, what is that?"

Yuan Qing touched his chin, confirming that he had never seen it before, and raised his hand: "Teacher, what is this?"

The singer teacher then realized that there was a special kindergarten this time and these children had never seen a piano. She immediately felt annoyed and hurriedly stood up to introduce it to them, but there were too many professional terms and the children were confused.

"This is a piano. It plays music." Finally, a human child beside them couldn't help but say, "Haven't you seen it before?"

Several little monsters shook their heads in unison: "No."

"So you didn't learn any musical instruments?"

What is that?

He shook his head again: "No."

The human child was curious: "So what did you learn?"

The five little monsters thought for a long time, then said, "Play in the mud."

Kong Xinxin said proudly: "The clay figurines I make are really good."

Human children are all stupid, so how can there be other children who don't learn anything? Playing in the mud is not doing their job.

Mom and Dad both said that if they didn't learn to play musical instruments well, they would end up playing in the mud. So why are these little monsters so happy and proud to play in the mud?

One of the children said, "My mother said that only naughty and incompetent children play in the mud."

Those in aristocratic schools, let alone mud, even on rainy days there are people carrying them in and out, so their shoes won’t get muddy.

Jiang An snorted: "Nonsense, only an incompetent person would say that to a child."

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience was in an uproar, and even the teacher who was about to play the piano was stunned.

Is this something a child would say?

The parents in the observation room looked even uglier, because that's how they usually talk about their children.

But anyway, what's there to be proud of playing in the mud?!

Is it wrong to spend so much money to send children to learn special skills?

Do you know how competitive it is to get into a good kindergarten these days? If other children are so outstanding when they enter elementary school, while your child knows nothing, wouldn't that mean they're losing at the starting line?

The parents tried to remain calm: "Playing in the mud? Do you teach that in kindergarten?"

Lian Jiu nodded: "The children think it's fun."

"What's the point of playing this? Isn't it a waste of time?"

Lian Jiu asked back, "Then what does it mean to not waste time?"

"At least they should learn something useful. Parents spend money to send their children to kindergarten, but they don't learn anything and go back covered in mud. Isn't that a bit ridiculous?"

Parents feel suffocated when they imagine this happening to their children.

If a child has a childhood like this, it would be a waste!

"The conditions are different," Ding Rui said, smoothing things over. "Principal Lian Jiu and his colleagues are different from us. The infrastructure isn't quite there yet, so they can only do so much. We can't impose our own conditions on them."

The parents immediately understood that this was a kindergarten in the mountains, so it was normal for them to have a narrow vision, and they should not be angry with them.

But I couldn't help but say, "I see. That's understandable. But even if the conditions are not good, we still need to instill in the children the correct values. Don't let them think that just playing in the mud is something special."

Lian Jiu once again experienced the feeling he had when communicating with the parents of kindergarten children before traveling through time.

Although it is also an ordinary kindergarten, many parents still have high expectations for their children, hoping that their children can read at the age of three, recite poems at the age of five, and write lyrics at the age of seven.

A large part of this pressure has also been transferred to kindergarten teachers, who are expected to teach in this way.

Therefore, to a large extent, Lian Jiu can understand the director Zheng Ye of Sunflower. They have different positions and need to do different things.

But I am in the Monster Kindergarten, and I can make my own decisions on many things. I just hope to bring the best to the children.

But she found that these parents had not changed. Not only did they want their own children to become like that, they also intended to make other children become like their own children.

[I also grew up playing in the mud. Has that affected my life now?]

[Why do this teacher and this parent talk so strangely? ]

[Isn't that strange? Those of us without children might find it strange, but these parents and teachers are actually a true reflection of early childhood education today.]

Lian Jiu hadn't said anything yet, and Qin Wenxuan couldn't bear to listen anymore. He held his forehead and sighed: "Hearing what you said, I don't want to have children anymore."

"What are you talking about?"

Qin Wenxuan said: "This puts a lot of pressure on me and my child too."

The parents thought he was still young and ignorant, so they said, "Isn't this how it should be? This is how society is."

"I'm in society too, but I wasn't like this before." Qin Wenxuan couldn't understand. "I don't quite understand what it means to be so great just because you can play with mud. I played with mud when I was a kid, and I thought I was amazing because I could make a better-looking Ultraman than the other kids."

Qin Wenxuan used himself as a living example: "Am I a failure right now? Yes, I'm not very popular, but this is no different from playing in the mud. Could it be that my fans posted the video of me playing in the mud online?"

"That's even more inappropriate. Actors who can pinch Ultraman are really cool."

[Xiao Qin, you're such a show-off! Now the whole world knows you can make Ultraman clay figurines.]

【But I'm really curious about what it's like, hahaha. 】

【Xiao Qin still believes in light.】

To be honest, Xiao Qin did express what many people are thinking. It puts a lot of pressure on adults, and even more pressure on children.

Some adults always like to impose their own past on children, saying: "I've been through this, and this is for your own good."

[It's so true. Even when I grow up, my mother still says this to me.]

After hearing what Qin Wenxuan said, Lian Jiu couldn't help laughing: "It's really cool. If you were in our kindergarten, you would definitely be very popular."

"Really?" Qin Wenxuan immediately became excited. "I've been following your kindergarten for a long time! When I have the chance, I can go and teach them how to make Ultraman."

The others were so confused by the two people's constant exchanges of glances and words that they could only remain silent.

At this time in the live broadcast, the teacher had finished playing a song and the children were about to start singing.

Parents are complacent and think that their children will definitely be better than those children from the mountains.

Otherwise, what is the point of letting children study in the city and learn so many things?

Of course it is to distinguish them from the children in the mountains!

The singing trainee teacher pressed the keys: "Let's do it again. Follow the teacher, okay?"

"good!"

All the children were concentrating, afraid that they would make mistakes in singing. In comparison, the little monsters were much more relaxed.

Whether or not they can learn it doesn’t seem to be that important to them.

After singing once, the little turtle baby is still a beat behind, and the little fish baby still can't speak coherent words.

The two little monsters smiled at each other, you laughed at me and I laughed at you.

"Take a break," the teacher said. "Let's correct it slowly, okay?"

For the little monsters, taking a break means they can relax after studying.

They were very curious about the new little movements and words they had learned. Several of them gathered together and sat astride chairs.

Kong Xinxin sat in the first seat, Guizai sat in the second seat, and Xiaoyu sat in the third seat.

The little peacock sang first: "Riding my motorcycle~"

Turtle cub: "It's not a traffic jam, it's a traffic jam~"

Xiaoyu: "I'm going home, I'm going home."

Yuan Qing and Jiang An were in charge of the instructions: "The sound of a motorcycle is 'du ru wu wu wu wu'."

Jiang An: "The motorcyclist in the video should turn sideways."

So the children corrected their movements and simulated it again.

The three children kept mumbling for a long time, and they couldn't even get the tone right, but they were still having a lot of fun.

They had never heard of motorcycles before, but now they can see them in a video! It’s really new.

Looking at the human children on the other side, they were also sitting together discussing.

"Wrong, wrong, it's the beloved little motorcycle, not the dear~"

"That's not how we sing it! The teacher sang too fast, so we sang it wrong."

Since it was break time, the little monsters who loved making friends didn't let go of the other children. After learning to ride a motorcycle, they found new human friends. Yuan Qing, as the leader, took the initiative to ask, "Want to ride a motorcycle together?"

"No." The human children shook their heads. "We haven't learned to sing yet."

The little monsters were confused. Is this something they must learn?

"You've all started playing, huh?" the human child asked curiously, "Have you learned it yet?"

This simple song is too easy for Yuan Qing and Jiang An.

So he turned around and looked at the other three little cubs.

Kong Xinxin immediately started to perform confidently: "Riding my motorcycle~"

The next two also continued to sing: "No traffic jam, no traffic jam~ I want to go home~"

Very good, this is only the second time, and it is different from the first time.

But they were still very confident and sang with great enthusiasm.

The human children were very confused. Is this the same as what the teacher taught?

The child kindly reminded: "But you sang it wrong."

The little monsters nodded: "Yes, that's right!"

Because they haven't learned it at all.

"Then why are you so happy?"

Kong Xinxin made the motion of turning the motorcycle handlebars with both hands: "Because learning is fun, we learned how to ride a motorcycle."

"A big motorcycle." Fang shook his head slowly. "Turtle has never seen a motorcycle before."

This is obviously beyond the comprehension of human children.

Aren't motorcycles common? Why is there so much to learn about them?

Besides, the teacher is teaching singing. If you can’t learn it, wouldn’t you be a stupid kid who doesn’t take it seriously?

The little carp spirit made a warm invitation: "Ride a motorcycle, together!"

"No, no." The human children actually wanted to play a little when they saw them having so much fun, but this was a TV show, and good children should study hard, so they should learn to sing first and talk about it later.

So in the next live broadcast room, several children from the monster kindergarten "rode" around the field on motorcycles, and the human children in the middle nervously and seriously reviewed the songs they had sung before, trying to sing them correctly next time.

[It seems like a top student and a poor student, hahaha]

[How can they be the same? There's no exam.]

By the next class, several human children were able to sing the song in its entirety, and they breathed a sigh of relief when they cooperated with the teacher again.

The teacher asked everyone to perform together, and the scene became very disjointed.

The human children were singing seriously, and the little monsters were also very serious. They sang the lyrics they remembered and demonstrated how to ride a motorcycle with their hands and feet.

It seems like they are reporting on the performance while having fun at the same time.

Among the children who learned to sing are those from Ding Rui's school. Ding Rui feels very proud of this. This is also the result of her own education. Does she really think that she will achieve nothing if she is kicked out?

She looked at those country kids and felt they were out of place. She smiled and said, "The clothes the kids from the Monster Kindergarten are wearing today are pretty nice. Are they sponsored clothes?"

Lian Jiu: “Yeah.”

"It won't be cheap," Ding Rui sighed. "With such nice clothes, I hope your education will catch up. Fortunately, your conditions are gradually improving. Even though the children are young, they can't play all the time."

Lian Jiu gave a short laugh and sat up slightly straighter: "They did come to have fun, and they had a lot of fun."

After finishing speaking, Youyou asked, "Do you think the children in your school are happy?"

"Why are they so unhappy?" Ding Rui gestured to the screen. "Look how brightly they smile when they learn a song."

Other parents agreed: "It's the joy of success."

Lian Jiu asked, "Who succeeded?"

Ding Rui said, "Of course it's the child's success. Isn't a complete song something to be happy about?"

Lian Jiu's smile faded, and the laughter in his eyes faded. He said slowly, "As a qualified kindergarten teacher, especially one who has reached your position, you should know better than anyone that when teaching children to sing in kindergarten, learning this song is not the ultimate goal."

Ding Rui had a feeling something was wrong and frowned. She had the same attitude when she got fired last time when Lian Jiu started to act big in Sunflower.

Zheng Ye, who had been silent the whole time, also nodded: "Indeed."

Ding Rui thought it was ridiculous: "Director Zheng, the students in your school have also studied and learned it. Why do you say that?"

Zheng Ye didn't expect to record a program with Ding Rui this time, and he never wanted to pay attention to her.

Ding Rui was still brooding over the pain of being fired, and she was targeting Lian Jiu both openly and covertly. Zheng Ye couldn't stand it any longer, so he spoke up, "I've said from the beginning that our kindergarten's situation is different from other schools, so we have some unique philosophies when it comes to teaching. That's why I didn't participate in the teachers' discussions on education."

Elite schools, in the future these parents will want their children to study abroad, or go to international primary schools, or even better environments.

Under this pressure, teachers have no way to decide how children should learn.

The reason for coming to this program is simply because the school's shareholders requested that if the children could have more opportunities to appear in this program, they might choose other ways out in the future and become child stars.

Therefore, she cannot compare with Lian Jiu in conveying teaching concepts. Zheng Ye knew this from their previous contact.

But in the eyes of other parents, the wealthy and powerful Zheng Ye was more credible than Lian Jiu, a teacher from the mountains, so they asked, "What does Principal Zheng think?"

Zheng Ye looked at Lian Jiu and said, "I think Director Lian Jiu can answer this question better than me."

Lian Jiu lowered his eyes slightly: "You are too serious. Actually, you know it well."

She glanced at the parents and said, "Take singing lessons as an example. We hope that through this process we can cultivate children's expressiveness, confidence, emotional richness, and focus, and help them gain new insights from learning songs."

Finally, Lian Jiu's gaze fell on Ding Rui. "And the least important goal is to learn this song. Teacher Ding, I never intended to deny your child's achievement in learning a song, but you must question my child."

Lian Jiu paused and asked, "Then I would like to ask, which is more important, what your child has learned today or what my child has learned?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene fell silent.

The host didn't expect that Lian Jiu, who always seemed gentle and non-aggressive, would ask such a sharp question.

Isn’t this just putting Teacher Ding Rui directly on the fire rack and roasting her?

Of all the benefits of early childhood learning, it is natural that only the children in Ding Rui's kindergarten have achieved concentration.

As for the others, if they can’t sing, they will have no confidence, they won’t be able to have fun, and they will be emotionally depressed, not to mention their expressiveness.

Looking at the children in the Monster Kindergarten, from the beginning of the show to now, they have never shown their unhappiness, and they even invite other children to be happy together.

"You said it was the joy of the children's success." Lian Jiu smiled. "My children have also succeeded. They are happy that they have learned new things. In the process, they learned about motorcycles and how to perform motorcycle demonstrations. So they are happy about this successful result."

"And you?"

Lian Jiu asked again, this time not to Ding Rui, but to the parents present: "Now that they have fully learned this song, what do you think is the key to their success? Can they perform it for you, or for their relatives and friends when they get home? What will make them successful?"

The parents were immediately upset and didn't even dare to meet Lian Jiu's eyes.

Lian Jiu seemed oblivious to the strange atmosphere and continued slowly, "Before I became the principal in the mountains, I also worked as a teacher in other kindergartens. Many parents would say to me, 'Teacher Lian Jiu, other people's children can sing and dance, play various popular and classical instruments, speak English and do mental abacus, and even start math Olympiads, but my child doesn't know anything. Can you help us teach him?'"

She looked at the silent parents and asked, "You guys would ask the same question, right?"

The parents who were mentioned again did not say a word.

Lian Jiu didn't care and continued, "So you use these things to define your children's success, but you never consider whether the children need them. Or maybe, this is just the success you set for yourself, and you let the children achieve it."

One parent couldn't stand it any longer and retorted, "We're doing this for the good of our children."

"It's for the child's own good." Lian Jiu curled his lips and asked directly, "Then why are you unwilling to fulfill the child's wish of just playing in the mud once?"

After Lian Jiu finished speaking, the sharpness in his body seemed to fade away in an instant. He lowered his eyes and chuckled softly: "So what Princess An An said is wrong? Only people with no ability would treat their own children like that."

The silence in the studio was deafening.

In the silence, Qin Wenxuan clapped his hands like a heartless person and said admiringly, "Teacher Lian Jiu, wonderful."

[This is the first time I've seen Director Lian Jiu act so cool live. It's killing me.]

Can you edit this out and make an educational video?! For those self-righteous parents!

[This speaks to my heart completely! Not to mention the kids nowadays, I used to be forced to practice the piano until I cried!]

【Isn't that what it means to perform during festivals?】

[A gentle killing knife is the most deadly! ]

[Long, long, long, long!!! Waving the handkerchief! I love you so much! ]

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