印度的小學教科書「惹事」了。
因為，它教小孩子們怎樣去弄死一隻……貓。
引起爭議的是一本私立小學的教科書，據說有印度好幾百所小學都在用這本書做教材。
書中有「科學實驗課」的環節。這一堂課的內容呢，是讓學生們認識到空氣的重要性。
但是如何來認識空氣的重要性，這本教材的方法就很詭異了……
(圖via Lola Kuttiamma/Twitter)
An Indian publisher has caused a furore with a school textbook that encourages children to suffocate kittens as part of a scientific experiment.
印度一家出版社引起了公憤：他們的一本教科書在一項科學實驗裡，鼓勵孩子們將小貓悶死。
The book, which is used in hundreds of private schools in India, includes an experiment in which two kittens were placed in separate boxes - only one of which had air holes.
印度有數百所私立學校在使用這本教材。教材裡有一個實驗：兩隻小貓放在不同的盒子裡，而其中只有一隻盒子上有氣孔。
"Put a small kitten in each box. Close the boxes. After some time open the boxes. What do you see? The kitten inside the box without holes has died," read the text.
書中這樣寫道：「在每個盒子裡各放一隻小貓。關上盒子。過一段時間後打開盒子。你看到了什麼？沒有氣孔的盒子裡的小貓已經死了。「
▲How to kill a cat - Indian textbook style (via AFP)
以如此平靜、淡定甚至「科學」的語氣來指導小孩子們把貓弄死，這真的……很「硬核」了！
雖然知道印度人民有時候「口味清奇」，但教科書公開鼓勵小孩子以殺貓的方式來做實驗，還是連不少印度人自己都看不下去了。
印度媒體《印度快報》先震驚體了一把——
▲「震驚！四年級教材竟讓學生做實驗去『殺貓』，網友們都怒了！」(via The Indian Express)
是的，從標題到正文，這篇報導裡的感嘆號無處不在……
A ridiculous piece of text has appeared online. A Class IV book for Environmental Studies titled Our Green World,while educating students on the importance of breathing, gives a practical example that shows how children can suffocate a cat to death!→ 該教材在教學生們呼吸的重要性時，舉了一個可操作的案例，向孩子展示如何把一隻貓活活悶死！
Yes, the book part of a curriculum in a Delhi school tries to explain through an experiment that 「living things breathe」 and 「living things need air to breathe」.
So, basically,instead of creating awareness about environment and conservation, it is indirectly teaching young children to kill another living being!→ 該教材不是在倡導環保意識，而是在間接教幼兒去殺死另一個生命！
▲Shocking! Social media outrage over Class IV textbook asking students to 『kill kitten』 as experiment (via The Indian Express)
▲涉事教材 (via Twitter)
看到小學教材裡有這樣的「神操作」，國外一些網友也是吐槽不已……
@0ld_Monk:
How absurd! Doesn't someone review this sh*t before it's authorized & approved to be used in schools
真荒唐！在這破玩意兒被批准給學生讀之前，就沒有人查閱審核一下嗎？
@AGirlOfHerWords:
can you send me all pics of the cover? let's see if we can legally get them to stop this. this is 'how to be a killer 101"
博主能把這些圖都發我下嗎？我想試試能不能從法律上阻止他們。這明明是「教你怎樣做殺手」好嗎！
@prashantsani：
This is sad
The author of the book should be banned from writing
真難過啊……這書的作者應該被禁止寫作才對！
據說，由於被太多人投訴，很多學校已經把這教材的「殺貓」一頁去掉了。("Many schools have now scrapped the offending page." via BBC)
(圖via AFP)
當然，也有網友覺得，教孩子「殺貓」也沒啥大問題。
——畢竟誰上生物課時沒解剖過魚？誰小時候沒弄死過幾隻螞蟻蚱蜢？誰沒拍死過蚊子？
貓是生命，其他的動物昆蟲就不是了嗎？
但在許多人眼裡，長相可愛的、能用來養做寵物的、可以陪伴人類的貓咪（還有狗幾），的確是與眾不同的。（雖然貓主子是真的在陪伴人，還是其實懶得理鏟史官，就另當別論了）
之所以這次「殺貓」弄得大家特別生氣，除了教孩子殺貓這件事本身就挺過分外，還可能因為……
印度的很多教材真的太不靠譜了啊！
比如，印度就有教材曾公然宣稱：吃肉的人愛說謊、愛偷東西、愛打架，無惡不作：
（我吃肉招誰惹誰了）
(圖via DF)
A national textbook for 11-year-old students created uproar in 2012 when it was discovered that it said thatpeople who eat meat "easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes".
▲Five bizarre 'lessons' in Indian textbooks (via BBC)
還有更令人窒息的：二戰期間，日本對美國使用了核武器攻擊：
（日本：………………）
(圖via DF)
In what can only be described as a complete distortion of history, a social science textbook believed to have been taught to 50,000 students in the western Indian state of Gujaratdeclared that Japan had launched a nuclear attack on the US during World War Two.
▲Five bizarre 'lessons' in Indian textbooks (via BBC)
Emmmm.....
或許，有了人身攻擊、篡改歷史這類的前科，大家已經對印度教材搞個「殺貓」見怪不怪了吧
文：lanlan