What the example of the wolf child illustrates, what the story of the wolf child illustrates

Wolf childThe story illustrates that in the process of education, it is necessary to seize the critical period to promote the better development of the individual, and if the critical period is missed, the effect of training will be reduced, or even never compensated. That is to say, education and teaching should follow the imbalance of individual physical and mental development.

The wolf child is exposed to wolves from an early age, the language mechanism is not developed, and the level of intelligence is low. The environment in which they grew up and the education they received greatly affected the development of people's lives, so it led to the inability to adapt to the life of wolves and eventually died.

The case of the wolf child.

Calcutta, India, 1920.

In a nearby mountain village, after killing a large wolf, hunters found two girls raised by wolves in the wolf's den. The older girl is estimated to be 8 years old, and the younger girl is about 2 years old, and it is speculated that they were all taken by wolves six months after they were born. Two girls were taken into a local orphanage after returning to human life.

adopted, and named Kamala and Amara respectively.

Their speech, movements, postures, emotional reactions, etc., all have obvious wolf habits. They can't speak, but they can make strange sounds; Unable to use his hands and unable to walk upright, he can only crawl on all fours like a wolf;

They are very sensitive to people, but they are very affectionate to dogs, cats and other animals; During the day they don't move, but at night they start scurrying around and howling like wolves.

1. "Wolf child."

"Child" refers to a human child who has been captured by wolves since childhood and raised by wolves. There are more than 10 known young children in the world to be fed by wolves, the most famous of which are two found in India. Wolf children and other young children raised by wild animals are collectively referred to as wild children.

2. The story of "Wolf Child" illustrates that human knowledge and talent are not gifted, and walking upright and speaking are not natural instincts. All of these are acquired social practices.

and the product of labor.

1. The story of the wolf child tells us that the environment can shape people, and the environment can affect and change people. If a person lives in a positive environment, he will become an excellent person, and if he lives in a mediocre and negative environment, he will become a bad person.

2. The fact of the wolf child proves that the knowledge and talents of human beings are not innate and innate, but human social practice.

products. Man is not isolated, but highly socialized, and if he is separated from the social environment of human beings and from the collective life of human beings, he cannot constitute the inherent characteristics of human beings. The fibrous early nucleus human brain is the product of the long-term development of the material world, it does not automatically produce consciousness itself, and its raw materials come from the objective outside world and from people's social practice.