Children of Life

In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion. Toshiro Kanamori teaches the kids to be happy, to empathize for people going through rough times, to share their feelings and support one another. Trust, respect and friendship.

One tradition in his class is that every day, three students read out "notebook letters," a journal entries that express happiness, irritation, gratitude or sadness. 

"What's the most important thing this year?" asks Toshiro Kanamori to his students? "To be happy!" the children response.

"Empathy is the greatest thing. There's an expression I love: 'Let people live in your heart."
Toshiro Kanamori, 4th grade teacher

Thank you Eva for sharing :)