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本帖最后由 zoezjw 于 2011-1-19 00:40 编辑
In order to figure out the answer to the question that does the method we socialize children today really determine the tomorrow of our society, we need to take a glance of the meaning of socialization, and consider what kind of society can be regarded as a better one.
A child is born in a certain culture, of which the values, norms and customs play a fundamental role in the process of socialization. Being socialized by parents, teachers, and other social members, the child can acquire social skills and learn to behave appropriately in his or her culture, which is of great necessity to everyone as individual building up society. This primary process of teaching and learning directly influence the character and personality of the child, and it is never out of line to compare primary socialization to the root of a tree. Just as a tree takes in nutrition from the root to grow, a child develops his/herself based on the foundation that largely established in the process.
However, what should not be ignored is the fact that the process of socialization does not stop when childhood ends. Primary socialization take up a majority part in the first several years, and as the child grows up to an adult, interacting with other members of society and getting involved in some social groups always outweigh the simple, primary process. There even exists the possibility that one person may substitute his origin patterns with some different norms and values especially when he or she moves into a different culture. A functioning root is far from enough for a luxuriant tree. Without sufficient sunlight and water, or favorable circumstance, the best root can merely do nothing. Imagine a well-educated boy who accidentally makes friends with a group of thieves. Gradually he may acquire the opinion that stealing is a way to make money and try shoplifting under the peer pressure.
Thus, from where I see it, the issue is more about how society as a whole can provide us with a suitable environment to socialized children to become eligible adults as individual members of society than the ways by which their parents and teachers socialize them. Moreover, the destiny of society depends more on the former considering that adults are the leading force of society.
A better society cannot be pursued simply by ensuring that members have learned the basic interacting skills and common values and norms in their own culture. In addition, the process of socialization can be conducted by so many agents, mass media, clubs, schools, etc. that we can hardly have a good control of it. Take Richard Wagner as an example. Wagner is an outstanding composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, who can reach the standard of “help to bring about a better society”. People all acknowledge Wagner is a great man with his excellent stage works and contributions to the development of opera, but few have more than the vaguest acquaintance with his real personality. Surprisingly, this great man had capricious temper and bad manner, and lack loyalty to his wife and his friends. He even persuaded a friend’s wife to leave her husband and be with him. All these features probably result from shortage of proper education. But this ill-socialized man did bring about the beauty of art, and make contributions to society.
Hence, it bears little significance to argue whether or not we find the way to raise children that can bring about a better society. What really matters is how we form our society to be a more suitable place for “trees” to grow and offer shelter and fruits in return.
This article was created by ID:zoezjw independently at 2011/1/18. Confirm letter number of GRE AW test : 8850000000525209. This article only can be used for study and exchange individually. All rights reserved.
改Doris
The assertion that the degree that the children are socialized today determines the density of society, from my perspective, has neglected other groups of people and factors which might play more crucial roles in building up the society. Besides, I also hold the point of view that we have already learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society, which is contradictory to the speaker's claim.(用speaker怪怪的,可考虑 the statement above 之类的;另外就是建议尽量用其他词来替换原来题目中的,避免直接用原句。)
We have to concede that children are the future of the(去掉,下同,society作“社会”的意思时不加定冠词,除非有带修饰性定语,如a civilized society)society, but do they determine the society significantly? In my opinion, children are only part of the society; other groups of people also influence its quality. The older ones are the guidance of the development of the society, owing to their great amount of experience; they could direct us into the correct orientations. They are also the heritage (遗产?人不好称为遗产吧,继承者用successor)of the culture, thus what they impart could be called nothing but classical. What's more, since they have gone through the longest than any of us, they have seen the way the society develops. As a consequence, they have more priority to announce how the development of the society should be promoted.(development 和 promote 重复) Nevertheless, the ones who really determine the density of the society most are the adults. Adults are working in every corner of the world, utilizing their various talents and skills in different industries. They carry the most responsibilities of the society due to the fact that most of the wealth are created by them. Meanwhile, adults' behaviors and thoughts also have great influence on the economics, the spirit and the culture of the society, and moreover, on the next generation, in other words, the future of the society. Therefore, it is not exactly(用形容词,exact)to maintain that children are the determination of the density of society.
Of course, we could never deny that children's great significance to the society. After all, their behaviors now suggest what they might behave in the future. Thus it might be possible to infer what the future would be like. But is sociability the only factor that decides their future? Obviously, many other factors play, we might say, even more important roles. Being socialized means being cooperative, accommodating, political, etc. Admittedly, well socialized children could be easily cultivated to become the mainstream of the society, which means they could turn out to be great educators, politicians, sociologists, officials, leaders, etc, who would lead the society to a world of peace and harmony. But if the world is only constituted by these people, it would never be called a society. A society must include scientists, doctors, engineers, etc. Only with sociability, these groups of people would never fulfill their responsibility. They must acquire enough knowledge of science and technology and be capable of handling human's practical problems by practicing knowledge. What the Industry Revolution has brought us has already testified the importance of science and its fruit--high efficiency in productivity has flourished the society in an unimaginable speed. What we are enjoying today are all due to the development of science. Thus we could tell that without the base of science, nothing could function in this world.(这段感觉有点杂,嘿嘿,建议分开来,分别论述children对社会命运的重要性,和单有社会化是不足以推进社会发展)
I also do not agree with what the speaker asserts that we do not know how to cultivate children into (加adults that can) bringing about a better society. First of all, what does "better" mean? Here, the word better means improvement. Has not the world been improving all the time? Since the human beings appeared in ancient time, we had acquired cultivation and hunting. Afterwards, words and languages had emerged, resulting in the records of the culture, and followed by the appearance of poems, songs and the literatures. Not only the material world has gone through great improvement, the spirit has also fulfilled our souls. Continually, people started to discover the nature from a scientific view. People had been on the journey of detecting the world and our own. When faults had proved to be wrong, and truth had finally been born, people began to discuss a brand new subject--philosophy, in which people are observing the life and the wonders of cosmos. Until now, with the emergence of the information age, our life standard has reached a height which could never be imagined before. And I do believe that our life would turn into a much better one. All the above has shown that we have mastered how to educate the next generation to bring about a better society.(这句与你上文有矛盾之处,你前面说决定社会命运的不只是孩子的社会化,还有其他很多因素,那么反过来,社会进步了,并不能说明孩子的教育问题)
In a nutshell, the speaker's point of view that how children are socialized today are of great significance to the future of the society and that we do not understand how to make the next generation capable of improving the world into a better place is totally wrong.(要是totally wrong的话,你的文章第三段就有点矛盾了。。。)Because other aspects are also the key elements in society and we have mastered the way to bring about a better society. (是使社会更美好的方法,还是找到教育好下一代,以使社会更美好的方法?) And I do believe that with our efforts, our world would turn out to be a much better one in the near future.
思路还是挺清晰的,建议可以找些例子作为论证支持,最好再顺顺行文的逻辑~本人拙见,不足之处请多包涵哈! |
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