What is the significance of the animal school parable in ‘Learning Can Be Fun’?
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Humane education can play an important role in creating a compassionate and caring society which would take benign responsibility for ourselves, each other, our fellow animals and the earth.
As regards our fellow animals, humane education works at the root causes of human cruelty and abuse of animals. There is now abundant scientific evidence that animals are sentient beings, with the capacity to experience ‘feelings’. They have the ability to enjoy life’s basic gifts as well as the ability to suffer emotionally (as well as physically) through cruel or unkind treatment, deprivation and incarceration. This new understanding of the sentience of animals has huge implications for the way we treat them, the policies and laws we adopt, and the way in which we educate our children.
'Sentience' is the ability to experience consciousness, feelings and perceptions; including the ability to experience pain, suffering and states of wellbeing.
Humane education is the building block of a humane and ethically responsible society. When educators carry out this process using successfully tried and tested methods, what they do for learners is to:
Help them to develop a personal understanding of ‘who they are’ – recognizing their own special skills, talents, abilities and fostering in them a sense of self-worth.
Help them to develop a deep feeling for animals, the environment and other people, based on empathy, understanding and respect.
Help them to develop their own personal beliefs and values, based on wisdom, justice, and compassion.
Foster a sense of responsibility that makes them want to affirm and to act upon their personal beliefs.
In essence, it sets learners upon a valuable life path, based on firm moral values.
In a well-structured humane education program, younger children are initially introduced to simple animal issues, and the exploration of animal sentience and needs. Then, gradually, learners begin to consider a whole range of ethical issues (animal, human and environmental) using resources and lesson plans designed to generate creative and critical thinking, and to assist each individual in tapping in to their inbuilt ‘moral compass’.
Importantly, humane education has the potential to spur the development of empathy and compassion. Empathy is believed to be the critical element often missing in society today and the underlying reason for callous, neglectful and violent behavior.
There is a well-documented link between childhood cruelty to animals and later criminality, violence and anti-social behavior; and humane education can break this cycle and replace it with one of compassion, empathy and personal responsibility. If we are to build stable and peaceful societies, then humane education must play a vital role in childhood development.
Research has also shown that humane education has an even wider range of positive social and educational outcomes. These even extend to areas such as: bullying, teenage pregnancies, drug-taking, racism, and the persecution of minority groups. It has also been shown to increase school attendance rates, enhance school relationships and behavior, and to improve academic achievement.
Learners who demonstrate respect for others and practice positive interactions, and whose respectful attitudes and productive communication skills are acknowledged and rewarded, are more likely to continue to demonstrate such behavior. Students who feel secure and respected can better apply themselves to learning. Students who are encouraged to understand and live by their own moral compass find it easier to thrive in educational environments and in the wider world.
Humane education should be an essential part of a student’s education as it reduces violence and builds moral character. It is needed to develop an enlightened society that has empathy and respect for life, thus breaking the cycle of violence and abuse. Humane education should be an essential part of a student’s education as it reduces violence and builds moral character. It is needed to develop an enlightened society that has empathy and respect for life, thus breaking the cycle of violence and abuse.
The development of ethics and values in society is something that we ignore at our peril. These must be included in the schools’ curriculum, with humane education at the core.
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