【clover】Issue104 习作by Misir

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Issue104
It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.

To some extent, I agree that it is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears. It is common sense that education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. The Japanese government rewrote the history of the Sino-Japanese War, for the Japanese culture feared the truth of the war and didn’t admit the history of the very period, so it uses the rewritten history book to educate its students, suggesting that Japan is right. Not only Japan, other countries also compile textbooks of the history or other knowledge, for it becomes a way to teach students about the value in this culture.

      We all know that formal education is formed of several levels, such as primary education and higher education. When senior students are intelligent enough, they have develop a sense of right and wrong, maybe what the textbook read or what the teachers say are not always accepted by them. They can use their own minds or search for documents in the library to better understand about the very topic, and then make their own decisions to accept it or refuse it, or even accept part of it. So the formal education, especially the higher education can only give the students the topics, instead of what the culture favors. It can provide a lot of views or opinions, for instance, Darwin’s theory of evolution is very popular, but the theory of Creation by God –although it may be the feared one of the culture- must be presented by the teacher, too. It is the students’ job to decide which one he or she believes in.
      
      Moreover, many other methods are used to complete this task. For example, when the children are too young to go to school, their parents are the first teachers who teach by personal example and verbal instruction.Surely, they are daily and hourly exercising an invisible, formative influence on their children’s values. As a matter of fact, the parents’ instructions about what is right or wrong maybe reflect what the culture prefers. What about the mass media? As we human beings are social, we are living in the world with numerous, various kinds of people around us. Although we have our own judgment, we will be influenced by what others say. Some scientists have found the special neuron called mirror neuron, which may give a biological explanation about the sociability. When adults do something in their daily life, the children like to imitate them. If the children did something wrong, people will put it right. So does the mass media. The newspapers, magazines, movies, broadcasts, and other forms of media undoubtedly have a profound influence on our lives and values. In the view of social science, part of out culture is made up of these media, while the media will in turn affect our behavior.

      In sum, even though the formal education is the major means to perpetuate what the culture favors and discredit feared, yet the formal education doesn’t fulfill the task perfectly, and there exists other ways.

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