{"id":2536,"date":"2015-01-19T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T05:04:51","slug":"the-importance-of-greetings-by-eri-uchida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150119_2536.html","title":{"rendered":"“Some Lessons our School Visits Have Taught Me” by Eri Uchida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dec. 28, 2014<\/p>\n

As I visit place to place on tour with the “School Workshop Performances,” I feel the importance of greetings firsthand. At one of the schools we visited recently, each student came up to us\u00a0to greet us politely\u00a0one by one.<\/p>\n

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In everything we do, communication is vital, which begins\u00a0with a simple greeting that\u00a0can convey\u00a0so much.<\/p>\n

At the schools we visit, teachers tell their students, “Look at the person speaking as you\u00a0listen to them. Look into their eyes and listen carefully what they say.”<\/p>\n

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I think that children who can greet people well\u00a0also have the ability to concentrate and know when to act in a certain way or\u00a0when it’s ok to\u00a0relax, according to different\u00a0situations.<\/p>\n

That goes for us, too.<\/p>\n

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I used to think\u00a0that Japanese manners were very strict and a pain in the neck, but someone told me that “Manners are\u00a0the best way to show how you feel.” Since then, Japanese\u00a0manners became very natural to me and I started writing letters, too.<\/p>\n

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\nChildren imitate the behavior of adults, even if they do not understand the meaning of that behavior at first. Later, they will learn\u00a0the meaning behind it. I think adults should understand the real meaning behind our behavior and help children to understand that individually. As I think about this, I realize that we shouldn’t just\u00a0explain things to\u00a0children orally, but that they\u00a0also need to experience what we mean firsthand for themselves.<\/p>\n

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Children grow up very quickly everyday and I hope that we can also grow as adults alongside them.<\/p>\n

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Dec. 28, 2014 As I visit place to place on tour with the “School Workshop Performances,” I feel the importance of greetings firsthand. At one of the schools we visited recently, each student came up to us\u00a0to greet us politely\u00a0one by one. In everything we do, communication is vital, which begins\u00a0with a simple greeting that\u00a0can convey\u00a0so much. At the schools we visit, teachers tell their students, “Look at the person speaking as you\u00a0listen to them. Look into their eyes and listen carefully what they say.” I think that children who can greet people well\u00a0also have the ability to concentrate and know when to act in a certain way or\u00a0when it’s … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}