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TOTTO-CHAN: The Little Girl at the Window

By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

英本095 郑露露

09090523

TOTTO-CHAN: The Little Girl at the Window

By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Translated by Dorothy Britton

This engaging series of childhood recollections “Totto Chan” is wrtten by the famous Japanese writer and TV Presenter Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.The book is her real experence in her childhood,which has been carried out at the year of 1981 ,caused strong reactions not olny in Japan but also the whole world .

And TOTTO CHAN has been published into 33 languages all over the world.It has hit the top one on selling charts until now.1984,an office of UN commited the book after reading the English version : “The person is no more siutable for knowing so clearly of children Psychology.” She was oppointed as the Goodwill Ambassador of UN ,the forth Goodwill Ambassador.

TOTTO-CHAN: The Little Girl at the Window describe a true story about the writer’s primary school life .Little totto is asked to leave her previous school for interferencing classroom discipline。So her kind mother has to took Totto to an special school which changes the little girl’s whole life.It is not the school that influences the girl so much but the kind president of the school .The headmaster is an famous educator who learned a lot from the Europe and he uses his own way to influence his students .To little totto,a curous and innocent girl ,he pays his very petience ,deep love and remark wisdom on her

‘Tomoe”,the remarkable school had an unusual headmaster.He makes them have the unusual lunch time ,which is designed to have all children banlenced their nutrition.He has different education methods.Children there could start any subject they like to study everyday as long as them finished the important points writing on the blackboard.

And little totto ,of course fells in love with the special premiary school and experenced a lot of new things,while learning much from them including physical and spirital acknowledge.

Here,I want to have my own oppinions of this school.When I learn the course < A course in English language teaching> ,I find a sentence is always mentioned by our teacher,”learning is a progress of experence”.And what an important standard of a good teacher is to motivate students’s interest and have them learned happily .But in our present education constitution，we take great care in students’ scores so we ignore our fundamental purpose of education ,which is to let our child learn from practise ,and learn to be a hunman but not just a working machine.

I enjoy reading this book very much .Little totto is really a lovly one.I laugh and laugh at some of her rediculous behaviorsa.Well, when I finish reading it .Something different wander in my mind which I couldn’t tell .Elimentary school students are at the most samle and curious age ,but they also of great protencial.I apprecicate the headmater deeply. First ,he knows it is of great important to listening to children’s voice sincerely and petiencely.For the first time meeting Totto,he just smilely listened Totto’s chattering for almost 4hours.I wandered how could an adult keep doing so ?

We ,he so called outstanding teachers ,if there are some one could do like him? Listening attentively to the voice of children is the most elementary priciples in education.However,with the heavy perssion of examnation,teachers only foucus on our test scores but ignore what we really need in growing.

Second, unlike other school,the headmaster set school subjects in an unususl way .Teachers there are asked leading the most important points on the blackboards then leave anything to them.learning indepedencely is also an advanced princples carried out by our newly educators which is totally reflected in Tomoe

In the book, totto really did a lot of rediculous things and some of her explains seemed so adsurd .I bate no one in China will believe her ludicrous lies ,and we must break it immediately when heard it and warn her not to lie again .But her kandy mother just smille slightly ,accepting all her white lies .

In “Tomoe” every student is fairly treated ,nomatter he is healthy or disabled ,nomatter he is delighted or foolish.

There are so many different views lies in this book. A quite particular one in Japanese people is the equal rights between.I can still find unfair treats in our modern society between girls and boys.We take boys more important in all aspects of our daily life or study drive from our long history .boys have priorities for granted , sometimes even girls themselves ignore the unfairness .When the kindly headmater educats the little boys in Tomoe not to insult girls but to protect them ,totto feels so astonishede, opening her eyes and mouths so big .

In summary,I find a lot of fun reading the book.As our basic English teacher Professor Xia had once mentioned:”Reading is just a progress,the most important is wether you could obtain something after doing so.”It is a simple story ,but it is also a valueless experence for us .Because as a future English teacher, how to deucate properly is becoming the most critical problem.I believe we could have learned much from this book.