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issue 130,儿童社会化,考得最多的一道题,欢迎排砖!
限时没有成功,超时半个小时,写得有点长,观点比较奇怪。大家帮我看看我的观点有无不妥或表达不清的问题。多谢!
130 "How children are socialized today determines the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society."
Undoubtedly it is true that the destiny of society is highly related to how children are socialized, but with the ever-increasingly rapid progress of modern science and technology, the socialization of children is confronted with some new forbidding problems, which seriously hinder the healthy development of our children and the society as a whole.
Before the advent of modern industry and modern science, children were socialized primarily through direct communication with their parents, kindreds, neighborhoods and other people who lived nearby them. Formal education was accessible to such few children that the role of schools and teachers in children's socialization could almost be negligible. The virtue of this kind of socialization is that the conventional values, morals, norms and other cultures can be easily instilled into children because direct communication and interaction between children and their seniors are the most effective means to hand down traditional values and cultures. This piont is easy to understand: children have the instinct to simulate their seniors and thus are always inclined to accept only those values and cultures to which their parents or other idols really conform. This is why so many modern people often miss the past era in which children were more likely to accept traditional values, morals and other valuable social cultures and then grow into individuals who were more responsible to their family, community and society compared with the contemporaries.
However, despite the virtue of traditional socialization, there is a fatal deficiency that leads to its irresistible collapse. Under the traditional socialization, the preservation and accumulation of knowledge is very difficult. Seldom do individuals have the capacity to absorb all the essence of knowledge in their era and thus teach it to their children. What children can learn in this kind of socialization is only the traditional experience that handed down from their ancestors, not the scientific knowledge. Obviously, this socialization conducted mainly by family,kindreds and other imitate people cannot adapt to the advent of modern industry and modern science and as a result, schools and teachers in formal education gradually developed and finally substitute for the solitarily predominant role of parents and kindreds in socializing children. That is to say, the contemporary socialization is vividly characterized by the ever-increasing importance of formal education and continually decreasing role of parents, kindreds and other relative individuals.
The main advantage of the contemporary socialization is that it conduces to the accumulation of knowledge, with a positive result that our time witnesses an unprecedentedly rapid progress of modern science and technology. However, what goes along with the significant achievements in so-called modernization is the deterioration in moral and value education; all these problems contribute greatly to all kinds of social crisis in the modern society.
The formal education leads to the massive decline in moral and value education. As it is pointed out in the above, the education of values, morals and social norms can work effectively through the direct communication between children and their seniors; children accept the values and cultures only when they confirm the consistency of their teachers, parents or other idols with their behaviors. Unfortunately, the formal education always fails to do so: if teachers always refuse to consist on some values that they teach to their students, why do we expect our children to automatically accept these values? We often observe such a phenomena that a teacher in modern educational system divorces while he/she tells their students the importance of responsibility for family; also, students can often observe some disloyal behaviors in their teachers who enthusiastically advocate for integrity. Under this kind of socialization, traditional social values and morals can hardly be preserved and handed down into the generations and consequently the modern society suffers from the sustained decline in the moral level and social responsibility.
To sum up, while bringing us more rapid progress of science and technology, the modern socialization is primarily flawed in its disadvantage at imbuing our children with some valuable morals, norms, responsibilities and other virtues. Maybe our society can better off by combining the advantages of both the traditional and the modern socialization. (682 words) |
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