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Early Childhood Education

It has been proven by early childhood education academic studies that exposing children at an early age to enlightened and educational opportunities helps them learn, and to form independent ideas; makes them receptive to sharpening their curiosity about the world in their formative years. Creating such educational opportunities clearly results in children who are more adaptable to various learning situations, giving them a head-start in their futures as thinking human beings.

It's a credit to early childhood education that children exposed to learning opportunities seem brighter, more able to express themselves, more anxious to learn, and more able to handle the stresses sometimes associated with various types of educational circumstances. It seems universally accepted that children thrive, their malleable brains absorb readily and easily, in the atmosphere of early learning opportunities. There is much to be gained by giving children these early encouragements to learn.

And in various countries children are exposed to the national treasuries of folklore, of learning how to appreciate customs and traditions common to their backgrounds. And that may also be inclusive of learning to produce handicrafts. So that children's tender little, clever little fingers may become capable of producing exquisitely worked loomed products, jewellery, rugs, intricate trinkets beloved of tourists and overseas importers. That kind of early education is called child slave labour. It abounds in underprivileged, poverty-stricken countries of the world.

In other countries of the world, say various Arabic-Muslim countries children are taught other traditions. Which correspond to the universal beliefs of the adult communities. Kind of making sense of explaining to the younger generation precisely why it is their parents view certain other groups with suspicion and with blame, ultimately resulting in a burning hatred for those who exemplify the living status of the mythic maleficent beings who do harm to innocents represented by themselves.

This quaint cultural custom can now also be seen in the ongoing children's programs hosted by Hamas TV, through the clever use of colourfully cute animal characters imbued with human characteristics. They talk to children, and they coaxingly teach them how to interpret events that occur around them. These characters, animal in form, but human in their capacity to connect and communicate with children charmed by them, explain how children may react to certain others.

The animal characterizations range from a Mickey Mouse lookalike, to a bee or a bear or a bird, accompanied by a real human child who is a friend and companion of the animal character. As a team they work assiduously to deliver their early childhood education message to young Palestinians. The children are questioned about how they would react to given situations, and then prompted to render the correct response.

The children thrive under this careful structuring of their thought process to reflect the prevailing popular opinion in the society they inhabit. The bear, Nassur, teaches elementary school children through this popular Television series that concerning Jews, who are the occupiers of Arab-Palestinians' patrimony in their sacred land, there is no solution but to remove them. By clever persuasion, if possible.

Earlier incarnations of the animal characters, like the Mickey Mouse figure, came to a miserable end, murdered by Jews. Invariably, these fundamentally children-beloved characters seen so sympathetically by the children whom they inculcate with their messages, are eventually murdered by Israeli soldiers. Those same IDF personnel who kill and who maim and who imprison their elders. Ideally, Jews should be persuaded to go away.

But there are other means; if Jews are not amenable to persuasion, then it is entirely permissible, and indeed logical and reasonable, to kill them. "We want to slaughter them", is a recurring theme, and children are fulsomely praised when they respond with the correct answer to leading questions as to what the Palestinians can do about freeing themselves from the brutal oppression of the Jews.

Nassur: "We want to slaughter them, so they will be expelled from our land, right?" These cute characters and their message of the brotherhood of man can be found on Al-Aqsa TV.

Labels: Israel, Middle East, Social-Cultural Deviations

posted by Pieface @ Friday, October 02, 2009