issue104

hehuiUID: 134334

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

简要提纲:
1段:态度-同意原题
2段:论证第一方面:正式教育机构,即学校通过多种方式传播该文化的价值理念
3段:论证第二方面:非正式教育也值得注意
4段:简单总结2-3段

正文:

Nowadays, modern societies where we live offer us a legion of ways to receive information that may affect and shape our minds, values and attitudes such as mass communication media including radio, television and newspapers, public forums, platforms and pulpits, and the most recently high-tech based Internet. However, none of those can substitute the primary position of formal education as the way different groups and cultures intend to maintain their favorable ideas and eliminate those are not to their liking.

Formal educational institutions, in a more common word, schools have been playing the chief role in achieving that goal. They have many ways to do that. First, curricula of the schools from different cultures provide students an essentially limited instead of a broad range of choices of what the cultures want them to learn. For example, in most Islamic countries, Koran is a required course form elementary schools to high schools, while other religious studies such as Buddhism will never appear on the course sheets of first and secondary schools. Second, textbooks reflect different cultural backgrounds and thus various stances, ideas and values. Though in most natural scientific areas such as mathematics, physics and geology, there is little variation among teaching materials from different cultures, in humanities, things are largely different. History textbooks from China and Japan are strong cases to the point. At the first glance, they tell the same thing of the 1940s’ China-Japan war, but the emphasis which the two sides put on the issue are fundamentally different, thus the different names of the war given by them: in the Chinese eyes, the war is of an anti-invasive and national independent nature, so they denominate it the anti-Japan war, while in Japanese history textbooks, it is depicted as a war to protect its own safety and interests. The last, teachers act as representatives and exemplars to show the students the ways in which they should think, say and behave. In brief, schools are like factories, in which young people are renewed and adjusted on the teaching assembly lines into what the cultures, the decisive powers behind those schools, want them to be.

Accepting the incomparable significance of formal education, we may not neglect other information channels, though of less importance, which may also bring great effect on the children and the youth. The large amount of writing works, radio and television programs and information-containing online web pages all, though to different degrees, help impart young people what the cultures in which they are involved favor and what they do not. They tell instructive stories, give vivid examples, and offer relative background knowledge so that young people can differentiate what the cultures consider the true from the false, the good from the evil, the real from the fictional.

In conclusion, it is obvious that a culture tries to credit its favorable ideas and eliminate those it fears mainly through formal education, we should also take into account those remarkable informal channels.

realturtleUID: 69047

这道题，去年11G考过，不会再考了^_^
可以扯到很远的时候去，如果要写这题的话

maiduUID: 128534

我吧我的意见贴在mpa版了