issue130 [大杀四方作业提交]

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TOPIC: ISSUE130 - "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."
WORDS: 630          TIME: 上午 12:45:00          DATE: 2007-1-18
Does the destiny of the society depend largely on the degree of the socialization of children, as the speaker claims? Meanwhile, the speaker also expresses regret for the fact that we are now unable to direct our descendent to construct a better society. I partly agree with both of the counts. In my view, the degree of socialization undoubtedly plays a crucial role in a child's development, yet too much emphasis on it will do little good. As to the second count of the statement, I remain two points teemed with doubt which I will express.

First of all, there is no doubt that how a child is socialized is important to not only his or her own development but also that of the whole country. Given that it is unwise and in fact impossible for a child to depend on their parents throughout their lives, they should and must learn to be socialized to adapt to the ever-accelerating development of current society. As far as I am concerned, the ability of socialization to some degree reflects children's aptitude of adapting the world. As long as one can flexibly adjust to the changing world, it is likely for him or her to commit oneself to the development of a nation in the world where we face with increasingly competitive challenges. So what is one of the key tasks we are confronted is to socialize the children who will master the future tomorrow.

Having realized the importance of socializing children, we should also keep in mind that overestimating on that issue will amount to little sense, since there still exist some more important qualities that are required from those children to better the society in the future. They are supposed to command more advanced technologies to serve the ever-increasing number of people on the earth; they are supposed to keep traditional morals in their mind which their precedents have left to them to build our society to be more civilized; they are also supposed to have a creative mind to ensure frequent vitality that can be instilled into our world and which may guarantee a vigorous world to their descendents as well. Those mentioned above are just what come into my mind at this moment, then I cannot imagine how many skills and qualities are waiting ahead for those children to hone and perfect. So we should not just focus on the degree of socialization alone.

On the other hand, how to better the society is not a straightforward issue, however. For one thing, we are not informed from the statement of how the speaker draws such a conclusion that we are not able to instruct our children to improve our world. For another, what does the speaker mean or to say what does the author give the definition to the term--a better society. In fact, whatever answers the speaker may give, it serves little use to eliminate my doubt, because in my view the conception of a so-called better society differs from generation to generation. Simply put, what may be a wonderful world in our imagination might more or less be different from that of the children. On the other hand, children do not expect to follow what the society has advised to them and what they really want is a future pictured by themselves rather than by adults’ ideas.

In sum, the socialization of any child is conductive to both themselves and the whole society on the condition that we have not put too much emphasis on this issue. In addition, we should not always try to impose what we think proper and good on the mind of today’s children, since their minds are always changing at the rate which the development of our society has been undergoing.

我自己的感觉第四段论述有点不合适，大家看看吧，谢了