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发表于 2003-10-28 21:29:26
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"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."
I strongly agree the speaker's statement that the very way which we use to have our next generation socialized is essential to the final destiny of our society. However, convinced of the super significance of education , we have now failed to take effective part in the process of bringing about our expected future hosts without whom a better society would only keep in our mind as a dream.
What is "socialize" mean? In my point of view, in its very essence, it mainly indicates the whole process which converts a little baby to a social qualified citizen with a mature mind .How children are socialized? There is no more a sincere issue than education with this process. Indeed, it is the very purpose of education that helps us become autonomous, creative and inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny. As the old saying goes, children are the tomorrow of a nation .Thus, children’ destiny is equal to the destiny of society ; education is then viewed as the only way which would generate us the bright prospect of our society .
What education should be called for? The American president Thomas Jeff son ever emphasized that the true education should aim at the improvement of both a man's "faculties" and "morals", which once had been regarded as the basic aim of American education over two centuries. First of all, we should make our children know about good value system, a set of justified standard, a good many of useful ideas ——honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to the group, friend, and family, personal responsibility, and belief in disciples of liberty, equality, and freedom to practice one's own faith, all of which insure them qualified citizens . Secondly, they should be trained into productive workers which need knowledge in a variety of fields, especially in this technologically advanced era.
However, with the increasing change in various fields, especially the trend of maketization, this aim in education also has its alternation. All of the agent in this process have been granted new concepts. The parents, whom children have been most depended upon, become more likely to steer their sons and daughters toward a secure future, exert on them the "dreams" of the contemporary need. The schools, in which our children spend most of the time, become a place for collecting a large amount of various information ,and then stuff into the poor student ——as passive receptacle. The students themselves, who primitively should be the active agent in this process, are more enthusiastic in pursuing high grades ,in high-profited jobs, in other economic interests. All of these do deteriorate the primary goal of our truth of education , conversely, to some extent ,make the society more profit-oriented and become a rather worse one. Therefore ,it is time for us to call for a revised educational system which need the attention of all people.
In the final analysis, since most of people have already realized the significance of the process of "socialize", continuous effort are now required to reform our present educational system , ultimately establish a better one which would then lead to the improvement of the whole society. |
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