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ISSUE104
It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.
Formal education is generally considered as an important program in society, since it influences its people greatly and further contributes to the society's development as a whole. It is understandable that a culture, as one aspect in society, tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears through formal education.
Firstly, formal education is responsible and able to be the foundation for the idea renovation by culture. If formal education is defined as the education institutions that have the authority to award diploma, they are programs of instruction offered to children, adolescents, and adults through schools and colleges fully or partly operated by the local or national government. Such education system is accompanied with corresponding management and law to insure it running regularly and healthily, which make it even more powerful and influential to the society development, including culture. In this view, as the manager of formal education, the government endues formal education with force and authority for renovating ideas.
Secondly, through formal education, government holds the temporal culture and further perpetuates the ideas it favors as well as discredits the ideas it fears, varying from country to country,from period to period. Different countries have their own culture, which may be characteristic and distinctive, because of the different formal education. For instance, the China government applauds the socialism through the curriculum from elementary school to university, which compose the main formal education. So the China contemporary generations are indoctrinated such culture with the idea that socialism is a great system and grow up in this environment. When they are mature enough to affect the society, most of them may hold it as their own idea in their lives and go on being loyal to it, and the idea could be perpetuated. On the contrary, many western countries authorities hold the different idea that capitalism runs more efficiently, which is also perpetuated mainly through formal education. Therefore, the people would advocate and go on handing down the faith brought from that culture atmosphere. In addition, in retrospect, in different periods with different culture, government of special time also engrafts the idea according to the approved culture. The archaic Chinese formal education system, which was composed of many Sishu, instructed that obedience is such a virtue that everyone should learn and stand to it strictly. The idea has been prevailing so long time that the Chinese could not be open, competitive, and innovative to a great extent nowadays, though more and more people have recognized that it is unilateral, just through contemporary formal education.
Thirdly, I confess that some other ways, by which culture innovate the ideas, is existent, such as mass media, law, social groups etc. Apart form their textbook, people could learn something from TV, radio programs. Making some face-to-face interview to famous writers, musicians, artists, TV could show the culture vividly presently, which may not be contained in textbook. And radio could broadcast many commentaries on current affairs and issues. As to law, it affects people’s daily lives directly with government in power. Meanwhile, some radical discussion and reasoned analysis from social groups may exert a subtle influence on the idea innovation. But I insist that formal education is the most primary aspect to the culture and further idea development.
In sum, though ideas might change and improve partly as a result of some other factors, it is mainly through formal education that culture perpetuates the ideas it favors and discredits the ideas it fears. In my view, it is a general system managed by the government in power and represent the way of major culture development.
真不知道怎么说,还中途请教了同学,才造出来,麻烦大家多多指点,不胜感激!!
改了一下,看看还好点,谢谢!
[ Last edited by lignumvitae on 2005-7-15 at 01:35 ] |
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