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According to the speaker, it is mainly through formal education that a culture perpetuate its favorable ideas and discredit the ideas it fears. I do not agree with the speaker, since, in my view, education in secondary schools serves as a large contributor to the passing down of cultural values, while higher schools cultivate students' ability of analytical and critical thinking.
First of all, I concede that the speaker's suggestion has some merits to the extent that, more often than not education in primary schools or even high schools account for the indoctrination of cultural values to youngsters within certain social groups. As a matter of fact, it is commonly accepted that it might be hard for teenagers in high school to gain enough intellectual capacity and social experience to form a sound value system. Thus, it could be an appropriate way for educators in secondary schools to impart the basic ethic and cultural values and ideas to the students, which would invariably provides the students certain degree of cultural identities. Moreover, it is undeniable that in an autocratic country, the totalitarian governments still use formal educations in school of every level as an effective(compulsory,我觉得effective 有点怪,不确定,一个个人意见) approach to indoctrinate values they favor, and then govern the people more conveniently.
实话实说,这段没怎么看明白,好像讲的问题比较散~
不过用词不错
Secondly, however, it is not a main duty of college education in democratic societies to indoctrinate cultural ideas. Actually, it is analytical and critical thinking skills that students should learn through the education in colleges and universities. In fact, college students as grown-ups have the right to choose their moral and cultural directions, and educators may just performs as cultivators of thinking skills. Rote learning of facts and figures should be a secondary purpose of college education, instead the mission of college education is to nurture certain degree of tolerance to other cultures rather than simple deny the values that may contradict with the ideas of their own.
讲教育的真正意义,虽然也相关,但是好像不是很convincing,
Finally, the speaker ignores other approaches other than formal education that may contribute to perpetuate(ing) certain ideas while prevent the others in a society. For example, laws, as forces carried out by governments clearly inform people what they could do and what they must not do on a societal level. As a result, it turns out to be a effective way to pass down cultural ideas since different nations may have different laws. In addition, media also has a great impact on indoctrination of cultural values owing to its in-depth influence on people's mind and wide-spread coverage on social issues. Apparently, besides formal education, other factors like laws and mass media also account for the indoctrination of cultural ideas.
这段我喜欢,很清楚,但是一个小小建议,我不喜欢用other factors这种argument的词语,你就直接说laws and media,挺好的
To sum up, the speaker's assertion has some merit insofar as formal education in secondary school and totalitarian countries contribute a lot to the passing down of cultural ideas. But the main purpose of college education is to cultivate analytical and critical thinking skills. Furthermore the speaker overlooks other factors in a society, like laws and media, which perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit ideas it fears.
整体不错,成系统,而且用词什么都很清楚,合适:) |
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