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Issue104 交同主题作业。
Issue104 第10篇 大家一起来拍咿呀咿哟!
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作者:Bridgewalker 共用时间:51分 583 words (未修改时490)
2005年6月18日
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It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.
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Position: formal education 是有力的工具但不是primary的。
b1 formal education 用来indoctrinate cultural value很有效。
b2 但是formal education 有2个缺点。
b3 inforaml learning opportunities 才是真正的primary。
Conclusion.
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Is formal education the primary way for a culture to perpetuate or discredit curtain ideas according to its own judging standards? This question seems positive to speaker, however, as far as I am concerned, it is the other around. Although formal education is a powerful instrument to do that, it can not be regard as the primary one.
Admittedly, formal education is a strong force to make some ideas immortal at one hand and discard else at anther. Formal education is an elaborated system established long ago and has being adjusted all the time for pursuing effectiveness. Since this system is adopted by most countries in contemporary world, it becomes the most convenient way for different cultures to transmit and strengthen their customs, traditions, moral standards, values, and certainly the ideas they favored. It is recognition of formal education’s power that leads the current Japanese government to rewrite history of World War Two in textbooks. In systematized effort, books in which harmful ideas should be wiped out are censored and predetermined; teachers are assigned; pupils have to sit in classroom to memorize their cultures’ favored ideas and put hatred on discredited ones. This process is consequently enhanced by grade competition. After several years' training in this system, most students have accepted the attitudes given by their cultures in which they are brought up toward certain ideas.
Nevertheless, the formal education is also some disadvantages in doing so. Firstly, the time period for it is too short to fulfill the task given by its culture. It is only about 20 years for students to finish their formal education from primary school to College. In comparing with our life expectation, this period is obviously too short to indoctrinate cultural values. More time is required for the maturity of values and attitudes, etc. Secondly, according to developmental psychology studies, large part of people's first 20 years is used to memorize and imitate, only in later time they begin to suspect and think independently. Therefore, the values transmitted by culture are instable and premature when students get out of the formal education system, most probably before they become critical thinker as real adults.
Moreover, it is the informal learning or education opportunity out of formal schooling that is the primary method to transmit cultural values toward its members. Unlike formal education, informal education is a life long process, a process in which people can learn their culture values form daily experiences, workplaces, other people, mass media, laws and other cultural institutes. For instance, non-profit advertisements designed to express virtue of honesty are broadcasted by TV, radio or internet; ideas of freedom, equality, love of people favored by modern democratic countries have been written down in laws to shape people’s minds and regulate their daily behavior; museums and memorials are built up as heritages which should be handed down from one generation to another to teach people values held by theirs cultures generally (Japanese use the Yasukuni Shrine to symbolize this nation’s traditional Shinto religion.). All these are deeply embedded in our daily lives out of formal education, and they are influencing our minds and deeds unconsciously all the time.
In the final analysis, formal education is a competitive means to impose culture values due to its elaborated system aiming at effectiveness, nonetheless, it also have disadvantages which made it less competitive to informal learning opportunities. In fact, it is the latter that can be regarded as the primary method that culture used to perpetuate or discredit ideas.
[ Last edited by bridgewalker on 2005-7-31 at 18:55 ] |
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