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Issue 9: Education encourages students to question and criticize, and therefore does little to promote social harmony.
Syllabus:
My position: encouraging students to question and criticize does not necessarily harm social harmony.
1: we should distinguish “harmony” and “categorical obedience” (the relationship between harmony and categorical obedience)
2: the purpose of the question was the advancement of society (the relationship between harmony and criticism)
3: education also should prevent student from being cynical
Text:
With the rapid development of our society education becomes one of the key words of our time. In university, students are encouraged to question and criticize. But will this does little to promote social harmony, as the speaker asserts? The answer may be not. Admittedly, all students are encouraged to develop their own valuable powers of observation and independent judgment. I concede that these potential leaders might course the changes and reforms; however, it doesn’t mean harmful, on the contrary, only in this way can we find our limitations and shortages and therefore attain the balance.
At first, the harmony doesn’t base on the categorical obedience. We should distinguish them and realize that harmony means a free and well-organized society, where people can enjoy smooth relationship, human rights, liberty of speech. By this we mean categorical obeying always exists in autarchy, as a crucial contrivance, producing nothing but submission and compromise. To get a full appreciation of what this means we must turn first to some recent examples. An extreme instance is Iraq: in the voting of president at the beginning of this year, Saddam has won the election with 100% votes. By the author’s logic, that should “do more to promote social harmony”, because there is no question and criticism. Is that true? I think the preposterousness of such suppose is clear enough. Absolute supporting without any opponents means entire autarchy.
In addition, the problems of a society should be revealed, but not be hided. The reason is that policy mistake of any government, however good and adequate it may be both as a master or a servant, is to some degree inevitable. For instance, facing up the conflicts between white and black, as we known the U.S. authorities doesn’t do the right way before several decades, so there was a speech published against that by the name of “I have a dream”. During this lecture, the unfair and unjust treatments of black has been demonstrated thoroughly by Martin Luther King, and today we realize that a healthier attitude servers better both for white and black. In this case, demonstration has done more to improve civil rights than any suppression. By this we mean people always respect a nation who admits that he is wrong or ignorant, or even unfair and unjust. To be more precise, what the people cannot forgive is the monopoly’s attempt to keep them doing whatever it ordered without any right to raise doubt, or let alone rejection. For the reason given above, I strongly hold that criticism is the basis for harmony, and the harmonious environment is no substitute for criticism.
On the other side of the coin, in order to promote social harmony, education should also prevent adolescent from being cynical. With the regards to the immature students, what our education should do besides encouraging them is to avoid them of self-righteousness and self-regard. Nor should they be insisting when the idea is proved absurd or call other’s rights under damage. In other words, the individual should compromise his assertion or interests when it comes to the benefit of a group or overall society.
In conclusion, social’s harmony is a process, but not a destiny. So any society, which can find problems and scarcities by itself and revise them rapidly, is just a harmonious one. Yet only through the exercise of question and criticism can we convey human social experience in all its dimensions, and thereby fully understand and appreciate life in a harmonic and progressive environment.
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