Tales..

Reading the tales of The Son of the Turtle Spirit, I felt that I was taken back to my childhood. Thought this story may not be very suitable for a kid to read as Dr Edwin said that this story is really about sex..:) But the massage was clear, that tales and old folklore are really one of the medium for older generation to educate their young children.
In my opinion, tales are not just something that you read and learn what the moral in it is.
Tales is also something that should be well preserved as it represents the value of ones cultures. This may not seem as important as it is, but living in this fast globalize world, who knows that new generation would not even heard of Bawang Putih,Bawang Merah or Si Tanggang story.Would it be such a shame that they will not be able to enjoy what we felt when Putih finally married the Prince, and how Tanggang was cursed for disowning his own mother? I leave that questions for you to give it a thought? I always think that it would be great if teacher used tales like Deadelus and Icarus to the classroom. Not only it opened our students experience in reading and studying different type of text, they actually learn to respect other cultural difference in values and so on..