"when we want to
associate with young children, we should be able to explore the sense, needs,
dreams and their suffering. when we enter the world children, we must uncover
their wants and needs, so that we may immediately comply for respect the
personality and their feelings. Most importantly, we try to alleviate the
misery and not destroy their dream" by fadhlullah
This book is referring to the Islamic religious
guidance, but I believe all religions have one thing in common in that noble
goal that is how a human being when be a parent has a desire to protect their
kids from bad neighborhoods and bring them to a better life, in my opinion
anyway presented by each religion must eventually have the same goal, if so,
then they should cooperate regardless of their religion and even racial issues.
then could we understand why there is no reason for
a family fails in educating of their children, whether they argued that their
religion did not help them,
if we think, we successfully passed childhood
well, then why do we even harder to bring our kids down the road that we've
been through,then if we do otherwise, we fail to pass the time, then why are we
even easier to bring them into the failed path, whether because the environment
has now changed or different than our past?
in my opinion it is where the role of a religion,
a religion that is not rigid guidance at a time then we should be able to bring
our children also to real happiness.
described in the book, there are also
problems in the different treatment because of gender, education in our society
that relied heavily on gender discrimination (area in Asia in general), so that
girls are often prohibited from engaging in abusive behavior, such as playing
football as practiced by boys, on the other hand boys prohibited to cry because
crying is the nature of girls.
answered in the book as well that in Islam does not teach thatencourage girls to be weak and formed boys to be strong. but Islamactually encourages them to become individuals who are strong andbrave to face life, so there is no difference between the way ofeducating boys and girls, is mentioned in the book of al-quran that"and a human is born with a weak nature" (an-nisa: 28), notmentioned here are male or female, but mentioned a human, which means representing both