Love is the modern, eternal way of education.

Love is the warmth to be transmitted, from one heart to another, from the heart of a teacher to the heart of a student, just gently, but powerful enough to spread throughout the atmosphere of education.

I was given a small book presented in a very childish style: Education with Love . I also guessed that it was a book that did not need to be read in any order from front to back. So I randomly turned to a page... If it was really love, it would be like that, there would be no order at all.

Yêu thương mới chính là cách giáo dục hiện đại, vĩnh cửu - Ảnh 1. — Students make heart shapes to express love. According to Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, education with and from love is not only a philosophy, but also a necessary practice of education.

LESSONS OF EMPATHY

A random page turn led me to the story of Special Lessons from "meals in the dark". A teacher organized for sighted children to participate in the experience of blindfolded eating in the dark. Then not only meals, but also folk dancing, soccer competitions, musical instrument competitions... were also "in the dark" to be able to empathize with visually impaired students.

Is there any difference between the lifelong darkness of a blind child and the temporary darkness behind the blindfold of a sighted child? Yes, it is certainly the difference in status, the difference in adversity placed on one person and not the other. And that difference may be the source of the indifference and discrimination that sighted children have towards their less fortunate friends.

Yêu thương mới chính là cách giáo dục hiện đại, vĩnh cửu - Ảnh 2. — Cover of the book *Education with love,* produced by *Thanh Nien* Newspaper in collaboration with Vietnam Education Publishing House, a collection of articles aiming to use love to educate students.

The story reminded me of the words of the Dalai Lama: "When educating the young generation's intellect, we must not forget to educate their hearts." But even if we do not forget to educate our children's hearts, we may still not know how to do it. Teacher Thuy in the story of "meal in the dark" must be the teacher who put herself in the darkness of her students' fate, then let the heart of a person who loves children play the role of designing the special "meal in the dark" experience chain. I just wonder, how much love in that teacher's heart is enough to light such a warm candle in the children?

EDUCATION SHOULD BE A GIFT

That is just one of many other love stories in the book of journalists contemplating education. Each story is only a few pages, maybe only takes a few minutes to read, but it takes much more time to ponder. The warmth of love in educating children should not just be a story to read on paper, and to be praised by a few empty words. As Aristotle said: "Educating the mind without educating the heart is not education". Love is the warmth to be transmitted, from one heart to another, from the heart of the teacher to the heart of the student, just gently, but enough to spread throughout the atmosphere of education.

Why can't education be like a small gift given to children by adults every day, in a very natural way, but it will penetrate deeply into their minds. Why do teachers have to "force" themselves with a lot of educational slogans considered modern? While love is the eternal modern way of educating Humans.

Education is about change, about cultivating the human spirit.

Education with love is a small book that collects short articles recording small things, events, educational situations, even just an emotional state, a moment in life. Although they are very small things, the issues that these small articles mention and express are very big issues of education. That is, using love to practice education, to handle educational problems.

Education with and from love is not only a philosophy, but also a necessary practice of education. Educators need to have an open heart, be forgiving, sharing and tolerant.

Education is to change, to cultivate the human spirit. Love has a special power and ability to spread, it is a great, endless and extremely profound source of energy. That source of energy can nourish and increase the love of both the giver and the receiver. The energy of love can change others, can erase all differences, it is a special kind of wisdom to awaken even the most difficult to awaken and change the most difficult to change. Love can gather, guide and nourish the human soul.

Reading the stories in this book, I was very moved by the perspectives and ways of handling the insiders and journalists expressed through their perspectives and attitudes. The biggest, most long-term, most sustainable, most sacred goal of education is human development. Educational innovation is a very big and very difficult task, but educational innovation starts with small things, dealing with specific things like in these stories, not just big and distant things?

Thanks to the hearts of journalists, authors, and those who had the idea and made this book. Thanks for a profound and subtle educational spirit.

I believe this little book will have a great impact and spread.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Kim Son (Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Education and Training)