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发表于 2009-6-21 10:15:46
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本帖最后由 flear 于 2009-6-28 11:49 编辑
i130 "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."
The author's dual claims point out that socialization of children determines the destiny of the society and we have not yet figured out a way to raise children to be socialized. I disagree with the former considering that people continue to be socialized after the childhood, but reach an accord with the latter one, based on the fact of declined status of socialization in education.
I agree insofar as children today represent the future and how well a person is socialized determines how much he can do for the society. Indisputably, children today will finally take charge of the sacred work of construction of the society, and be the pillars of the future world. To become capable of contributing to the society, the children have to firstly fit into his ambience, that’s to say, to be involve in the process of socialization, which provides skills and habits indispensable for acting and participating within the society. Little progress could be made by the individual to the outside world without him being engaged in it, whatever career he takes.
However, socialization is a lifelong issue. People continue to be socialized throughout his life by experiences that may alter previously formed beliefs, habits and personality. Based on the time it occurs, we can categorize the whole process into three different parts –preliminary socialization, advanced socialization, and re-socialization. While preliminary socialization of children is for them to learn the language and fundamentals of the society and attitudes, values and actions that are appropriate as a member a particular culture, advanced socialization prepared them for basic skills to associate with their peers and to behave as a part of a group within the larger society. As to re-socialization, it gives an opportunity to those who have not yet been well accepted by the society, to rectify. Clearly, the socialization of children is only one primary step. However essential though this very first step is, it cannot determine how well one will be socialized later in his life. The story of Theodore Roosevelt’ ascending to the presidency, whose earlier social development is stunted by his inborn sickly and asthmatic physical deficiency, can properly justify my position.
As to the second claim, someone may contend with it by stating the improvement of society over years. Yet, this development can be only attributed to the previous and the present generations, but not the next. And I doubt what fraction of children today will finally turn out to be assets of the society. My contentions lie in the way how children are socialized—through formal education and inform education.
Formal education is generally considered as schooling, through which both knowledge of science and moral values of a society are inculcated to the students. However, with the booming development of technology, schools today can hardly balance the two—by putting too much emphasize on science while overlooking moral lessons about how to be an eligible citizen through the process of socialization. In china, schooling on moral values has already diminished to nothing but a fracture, with little essence.
In comparison to formal education, Informal education has been spared fewer efforts on. As the most of the early consequential socialization is done informally and unconsciously at anytime anywhere, and there are so many channels that a child can be exposed to norms and values, informal education of children calls on significant efforts to improve the altogether ambience around the child. However, what have we done? What have we improved of the society for children? I see nothing but the ever increasing of drug uses, violence, crimes, and the declining of morality. Adults, at least, should behave properly and speak gracefully in front of the child, but they have not.
In sum, how children are socialized along with further socialization throughout their life determines the destiny of the society. However, we have done little to raise children to be socialized to undertake the work of construction of a better future.
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