Emulate小組Issue130

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The author asserts that we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society. The implicit rationale behind the author’s statement seems to be that our way to raise children today can not build up a great society tomorrow. That’s not true. From my point of view, society has its own way to go and its destiny can not simply be determined by how children are socialized.
The orientation of society is determined by many complex factors. The claim that the destiny of society is hinged upon how children are socialized is overstated. It is the prevailing cultural conditions in Florence that gave birth to the Renaissance which profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern society. It is the explosion of population that produces the environmental chaos which is heading for a climate disaster. It is the huge appetite of capitalism that created the property bubbles which collapsed in 2008 and bring the whole world into a depressed season. All this together bring about the world we live. And also push the world to go forward. We have no idea what would happen in the future. The war, the science, the art, the education, each of them has their own power to turn the world into another direction. That’s how the destiny of the society id determined. It’s not just as simple as the speaker claimed that it is depends on the socialization of children.
There is no such criterion for a so called better society, for the definition of good is explained in different ways according to different interests. The expo in Shanghai lit up the China model for the entire world to admire, though it was queried by the west capitalists few years ago. What we can tell is that the developing of the society in the world shows that there is no such perfect developing model. We judge the world with the word “reasonable” in an objective way, not simply good or bad. Then how can we say time today is bad and time in the future will be better? World never be the way we want it to be. Therefore, how can we say that we educate our children in a wrong way which can’t bring about a better society since no one knows what a better society is and how to achieve it?
Though there are still some flaws in our education system, the way we raise children is base on the reality of today’s society. Every generation is shaped by their time. In ancient civilization, the main part of education is survival skills. While during the Early Middle Ages in Europe, the theme of education is preserving the Church’s selection from Latin learning and maintaining the art of writing. The education now, however, emphasized innovation, creation and cooperation. We rule young generation with today’s rules of social needs and uses. They grow up in the condition of contemporary culture which could ensure that they can integrate into society. Only when this is done will students cease to “adapt the world as it is” and become “transformers of that world”.
In sum, society flow in a way that no one can predict. How children are socialized today determined their own future. There is no question about the fact that there are some flaws in or education system. But we can not say that we raise children in a wrong way. We just do what we have to do.

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好有想法啊，我琢磨了半天还是一片空白，实力