i must have heard this story quite some time ago. but somehow, the other day while i was driving, the story came back to me and i knew i had to tell the kids.
so today i told 5a1 and 4e4 about the frog and the boiling water. tomorrow i'll tell 5a2 and 4e5 (if they are good).
the story goes: we put a frog into a beaker of water at room temperature and put a small flame to heat up the water (and the beaker, and the frog), the frog gets comfortable with the warmth, snuggle up and even begin to enjoy it. but as the temperature goes up and the water get heated up, the frog eventually dies in the beaker. now we take another beaker, fill it with water and heat up the water (and beaker) till the water starts to boil. we then put in a living frog. it is quite natural to expect the frog to leap out of the hot water and save itself.
the morale of the story is: these kids (not all, but quite a huge majority) and soaking in the comfort of being tolerated and taking things for granted, not knowing that they are cooking themselves to death. i told them to imagine that it's the day of exam tomorrow when they wake up, perhaps that might shock them out of their own wonderland.
class dismiss.
3 comments:
Hi interesting posts. Keep them coming. Perhaps you can consider inserting pics into your posts since you have so many photos. Thanks for sharing your blog with me.
thanks chief, you are too kind to spend time here. i'm a newbie but i'm slow and steady :)
I think not only kids, many adults like us are like the frog in the first beaker, taking most things/people for granted.
Thank you sir, Good bye sir!
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