In recent years, there have been many problems among a large number of minors, such as moral disordering, being addicted to the Internet, committing crime, sexual crime, suffering from psychological diseases, running away from home, committing suicide, and so on. The reasons are various. In addition to the family estrangement and lack of parents’ raising education, the deeper reason may be that children don’t really feel accepted and appreciated. The deepest humanity principle is to be accepted and recognized. As Diesterweg, a German famous educator said: “The art of education is not to teach knowledge and skills, but to inspire, awake and stimulate”. As a kind of incentive mode of education, appreciation education is consistent with the current education and teaching aims. It is a kind of new teaching idea. Appreciation education is not to praise and encourage, but to appreciate children’s behavior results in order to strengthen the child’s behavior. It is to appreciate children’s behavior process so as to stimulate children’s interest and motivation. It is to create the environment to indicate
children’s direction of development. It is to alert appropriately, enhance children’s psychological experience, and correct children’s bad behavior.
Dr. Sanjay Swami
(The author is an Associate Professor at Topiwala National Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, and is also a Secretary of BioVision Charitable Trust)
