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Issue 84.
It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.
Nowadays there is general debate over, as for a cultural, whether formal education is the primary way to perpetuate the ideas the culture tries to favor or discard the ideas it fears. Upon thinking about the issue, I concede that formal educational is an important means to inherit brilliant cultural ideas or discard the improper ones. However, as far as I am concerned, formal education is just one of three main ways of making a cultural ideas eternal of abandon the valueless ones: education, social movement, and public voice.
Admittedly, education provides abundant opportunities for people to have access to a multitude of cultural ideas, including family education and formal school education. Undoubtedly, whoever one is,, the moment he/she was born, he is influenced by his/her parents’ ideas inevitably. What he thinks and behaves depends on what kind of family he is and what cultural ideas the family favors or fears. After he/she grows up and goes to school, as a result, school plays a vital role in teaching them which to cherish and which to disdain on how to appreciate essential cultural ideas. For example, as for Chinese, people were taught to learn about the canon of Confucian since childhood, which help them shape the life of philosophy on honesty, lenience, and generosity. Also it was Confucius who first established the earliest school in China to popularize Confucianism, which became the classic of cultural ideas for over 3000 years. Therefore, education indeed makes significant contribution to perpetuate cultural ideas.
Aside from education, social cultural movement also help preserve the essence of cultural ideas and throw away the cultural rubbish. Take the Renaissance of the sixteenth century as an example, Italy, on one hand, witnessed the resurgent of Humanism, which led to an unprecedented ebullience period of art, sculpture, poetry and architecture etc that exert great influence on the cultural development in Europe; on the other hand, Italy sighed the downfall of theology which has dominated the cultural ideology for ages at that time. Times again Europe experienced cultural prosperity in a variety of fields that consequently bridged the cultural gap between the West and the East, and times again these social cultural movements conserve the paramount ideas one culture prefers to and enriches the cultural horizon as well.
As time went on, one will be faced with the society where is fraught with a diverse array of choices to make everyday. Therefore, by contacting with different people, and dealing with different matters, one can embrace the ideas he favors and disregard he dislikes according to his own choices. Cultural ideas vary form country to country and hence vary from people to people. Thereby the ways of keeping or discrediting the cultural ideas depends on distinctive voice form public.
In conclusion, Although I agree with the speaker that formal education is a means to for one to choose the cultural ideas he/she prefers or disregard the ones he/she dislikes to some degree, Another two approaches, social cultural movement and public opinion are equally primary for one to follow. |
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