1968, a three-year-old girl named Ruth in Nevada told her mother that she knew the first letter "o" of "OPEN" on the gift box. Her mother was surprised and asked her how she met. Ruth told her mother that Miss Vera in kindergarten taught her.
Unexpectedly, the mother immediately complained to Miss Vera's kindergarten. Her reason is surprising, saying that kindergarten deprived Ruth of her imagination. Because my daughter can describe "O" as round things like the sun, apples, football and eggs unconsciously, but after being taught "O" in kindergarten, Ruth lost this imagination. The mother asked the kindergarten to be responsible for the consequences and compensated her daughter for her mental disability of 65,438 yuan+0,000 yuan.
After her complaint was filed, it caused an uproar throughout the state. Everyone in kindergarten thinks that this mother must be crazy, while other parents think that she makes a mountain out of a molehill. Even her lawyer disapproved of her behavior.
Three months later, the result of the case was unexpected-the kindergarten lost the case. Because all the jurors in the jury were moved by a story told by their mother in the defense.
This is a story about the broken wings of a swan. Mother said, "I once traveled to a country in the east and saw two swans in a park. One of them had its left wing cut off and was kept in a big pond. " The other one is intact and kept in a small pond. The manager said that this would prevent them from escaping, and the swan with its left wing cut off could not fly because it could not keep its balance; In a small pond, because there is not enough gliding distance, they can only stay in the water. At that time, I was very shocked, shocked by the wisdom and wisdom of the orientals, but I also felt sad. Today I am fighting this lawsuit about my daughter, because I think Ruth is like a swan in kindergarten. They cut off Ruth's imaginary wing and threw her into a small pond with only 26 letters prematurely. Edison invented the light bulb because he had an unrealistic fantasy; Newton discovered gravity because of his innovative consciousness. Maybe Ruth's imagination is not very rich, but you can't deprive Ruth of the right to imagine, because a swan without wings will never fly. "
This defense eventually became the basis of Nevada's revision of the civic education protection law, which stipulated the rights that young children must have in school:
A circle may have thousands of answers in a child's mind. Please don't tell him that there is only one "standard answer"-"that's just a circle". Don't break his imaginary wings. When the swan's wings are cut off, it can no longer fly. When our fantasy wings are cut off, we will never find that creative paradise full of fun.