Abstract
<p>Attar believes that some health standards and different hygienic methods should be taught to children. Although teaching the methods of healthcare and well-being is among the necessities of life, child’s understanding and intelligence should not be ignored. There is no doubt that religious give great importance to health issues and even emphasize that they should be taught to children. Dealing with appearance causes that their truth-seeking spirit is misled. Accordingly, Sufism recommends people to abandon appearance and deal with the interior. In the stages of growth, child’s mental images are related to sensory issues. He gradually understands lighting, heating and other things that are exposed to his senses and realizes their differences. Formation of mental images and attention to their differences are related to the growth and complexity of the child’s nerves and experience. Affection and kindness to children is desirable. But parents and educators should know that going to extremes in this case is harmful. Attar believes that loving the children excessively causes that he is brought up as a weak and powerless person and loses his self-confidence. So, he shows weakness in the face of problems. But if he is educated with moderation, he will act accordingly. Too much attention to children makes them timid. Treating the children with justice and fairness is one of the Divine attributes. According to Attar, parents should not discriminate between their children and should deal with them justly in all aspects just as you like to be treated with justice in all situations. In many educational books, it is said that the apparent treatment of parents with children may vary according to their age and gender and this is difference rather than discrimination. Attar states that we should act carefully and accurately. These differences should not make parents not act fairly in loving children, but they should justify the children that if they were in such a situation, they would receive the same treatment. Discrimination and injustice in the family, whether tangible or intangible, cause that children feel contempt and become alienated from their family and education.</p>
Highlights
Today’s world is grateful to the teachers who have offered people the new ways of training in the field of education for many years
Attar did not have a special book on education, but he has stated his educational and ethical views in the form of poems and stories in the chapters of Mantiq al-Tayr, Tazkirah al-Awliya, Asrar Name and Elahi Name
With regard to the principle of reasoning, educational methods should be in such ways that regulate the intellectual attempts of human beings so that their guidance towards truth and knowledge will be achieved
Summary
Today’s world is grateful to the teachers who have offered people the new ways of training in the field of education for many years. Attar has been able to present some information about factors affecting the training of individuals and educational principles along with methods of training and even educational perspectives of parents towards children in the family in the form of his stories, anecdotes and poems. Attar has considered cultural and economic situations as effective in the education of people and has stated that new methods and information technology of teachers and parents will not be effective in the education of children and students unless social conditions and origins of that community welcome them. Attar sees heredity and environment as two very important factors in educational method He considers self-consciousness as effective and recommends the Muslim rulers of society to work more on this aspect. With this research, the importance of the issue to Attar becomes clear and we realize that he has been seeking for the real perfection of man in his lifetime and has attempted to guide him everywhere and with every appearance (Note 1)
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