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发表于 2009-7-28 19:27:13
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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."
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Children are the builders of our future society. The education they received determines how these children can help bring about a better society. The author argues that the destiny of society is determined by the socialization children received, while, on the contrary, we have not really find the best way to educate them. In my perspective, I fundamentally disagree with the author's first claim after a meticulous consideration, at the same time, I agree insofar with the second claim that we adults should find a more effective way to raise our descendants.
As for the first claim, it is no denying that how children are socialized have some relationship with the destiny of society. Socialization refers to the process of learning one's culture and how to live in it. For individuals, it means to learn the skills and habits for acting and participating within the society. For one thing, children learn how to communicate with people around them and skills to survive all of which have a great meaning for their future. The scientific realm as an example, as with more and more academic symposiums and video conferencing today, a scientist can not avoid expressing his/her ideas to counterparts ,as well as learning experience from others, thus the ability to exchange what we think is of more significance. When we learn how to exchange our innovative ideas, we can better build our society in a way that more high-tech technologies can be created. For another, to adopt and build our society, a well socialized psychological quality is indeed necessary. Children need a spirit to overcome the difficulty they face in the future and to adjust themselves when they are frustrated.
Though as claimed above that socialization of children is relative to the destiny of society, it is not the only factor. A convincing case we can find is that, the former president of the united states Franklin D Roosevelt, who was disability in his childhood, did not receive a normal socialization as his peers and had a strange character when he grew up. But we all know he is a great president, because his New Deal during the world war two not only infused a strong power in American's economy but also became a classic example for us to research today. From this case we can say that socialization only can not determine the future. Some people will ask what other factors are other than socialization. I think the answer is complex. But one thing I can sure is that science and technology have an important and irreplaceable role in the progress of our society. As with the three scientific evolutions, society has moved from agriculture society to information society. All these changes are brought by our scientists who have accumulates the wisdom of our ancients other than those who are just well socialized.
For the second claim as the author states, I should admit that the education system today still exist a series of demerits and shortages. It relates not only to the education resources but also to the way we teach our children. Firstly, the insufficient of our education resources has had a long history since we did not recognize the meaning of education in the past, but when we have recognized it, the number of children rushed into school increased far more rapidly than we can imagine.
Secondly, the way we teach our children still remains on the stage that separating the knowledge with the practical experience. Learning mathematical, for instance, for most of children they just learn how to calculate the purely numbers in their books, while can not apply these knowledge into their daily life. It is not merely for us to see these “high score while low ability “students.
From the analysis above, it is not hard for us to draw the conclusion that the destiny of our society determines not only by how our children are socialized but also by the foresight of today’s leader together with the progress in scientific realm. Putting all the hope of our future on children is a sense of lack of responsibility to our future. At the same time, we should change our education system to adopt the modern society and to make our children more skillful in the future. |
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