Why does Qian Zhongshu, a master of modern literature, oppose children reading fables?

Because Qian Zhongshu thinks that fables will make simple children more innocent, will make them more naïve, black and white are too clear, and they will encounter setbacks when they grow up.

Qian Zhongshu may think that fables are not suitable for children to watch, and will teach people badly, and learning the bad behaviors in fables will affect the formation of children's values and outlook on life.

First of all, you have to think about it, is it really against it? Every good book has something to help people, and everyone has a different point of view, and he should think that reading fables is not good from a certain point of view.

An old teacher said that "students" are "people who learn to live", although this explanation is not a strict definition, but it reveals an important task of educational work, that is, how to guide students to understand life and learn to live. After teaching the second volume of the Revised Experimental Text, "Reading Aesop's Fables," I deeply understood the meaning of this sentence.

Qian Zhongshu's "Reading Aesop's Fables" is a reading essay written by the author before liberation. Through the comparison of Aesop's fables with various despicable acts in modern social life, the article shows that modern people are far more cunning and despicable than the cunning people mentioned in ancient fables, so our minds must also be more complicated, so as not to be fooled.

This theme is rarely seen in textbooks in the past, but this kind of thinking is not wrong. The author talks to us about a simple and practical truth in life, which is such a simple truth, and our parents and teachers, and our textbooks, are reluctant to point it out clearly. Our textbook compilers are always afraid that they will teach the students badly, and as a result, some of the students believe what the books say, but as a result, they become weak in society, often run into walls, often fall into fools, and they have to learn some social knowledge that should have been learned in school a long time ago, and this road is too detouring.

After nearly 20 years of school life, why can't the students we have educated adapt to society immediately? This is a question that every educator should think about.

We only give them what is right, we don't let them see what is wrong, we only give them right, we don't let them understand what is wrong, we only give them theoretical knowledge, we don't let them go deep into practical life, we always put some simple things into the students' minds in a simple way, and as a result, they are naturally simple-minded. The purpose of education is to promote social development, so why do we draw a "38th line" between ourselves and society?

In the process of teaching, I tell students that life is complicated, and we can't say that if this person is a good person, everything is fine, and if this person is a bad person, everything is bad. Man is a complex animal, true and false, good and evil, beauty and ugliness exist in everyone at the same time, the reason why this person is a good person is only that his good side dominates, and vice versa. Furthermore, I gave a view on the complexity of the real society, so that students can make it clear that we cannot only see the dark side, because our society is constantly evolving, and this development is forward rather than backward.

Looking at people and things, we all have to use our brains, and we can't be too simple. Only by telling students about life as it is is possible for them to understand life correctly. It is contradictory for us to tell students one-sided things on the one hand, and to have correct ideological understanding on the other.

The introduction of texts such as "Reading Aesop's Fables" into the textbook in the new textbook is a great step forward in thinking, which is beneficial to both teachers' teaching and students' cognitive life.