Published 0:01 Monday, June 8th, 2009 by yeer 2,253 views
ISSUE 130
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."
The term socialization, as defined by psychologists and sociologists, refers to and how to live within it. Since it is well acknowledged that children are the future and hope of mankind, how tomorrow’s masters are socialized today plays a decisive role in the destiny of society. It can not be denied that general education conditions have been improved profoundly as rapid development of society and some optimist assert that a better society will be undoubtedly constructed by our children. However, we will not be so confident of a brighter future when flaws are found, with a rational and careful observation, regarding socialization agents such as family, education and mass media.
In first place, parents have not done well enough to raise their children. In the modern society full of fierce competitions, parents devote much time and energy to their work than ever before. Thus little time has been shared with their children, exerting a negative impact on children’s mental health, which contributes profoundly to autism, a common problems of children today. It is beyond imagination that children without open heart and mind as well as lacking the ability to communicate with others will make our society better in the future. Moreover, the values of parents towards the society influence prominently on those of their children, but some parents fail to set a good model for children in terms of various values. This case is prominent in China. Some children of peasant workers, migratory laborers from countryside during slack seasons, give up the chance on their own initiative to continue study after graduating from senior and even junior middle school after finding their parents with knowledge of lower level can make money, though usually through simple physical work. The fallacy “studying is useless” is formed correspondingly, which is fatal to a better future of our society. On contrary, some children craving knowledge have no chance to receive formal education because of their poor family and insufficient help from government, especially in underdeveloped countries.
Furthermore, education has also bogged down in vital problems. On one hand, overemphasis has been put on students' intellectual development. Take myself as a typical example. Time for courses of music, arts and physical education were often taken up by main subjects such as math, Chinese, English, chemistry and so on at primary school. What’s more, things became even worse—those so called subsidiary subjects were thorough cancelled by high school because none of them is listed in college admission examinations. Students under high pressure probably will suffer from psychological problems, but they have no one to resort to. On the other hand, the sense of competition has been much emphasized while the importance of cooperation has been ignored. Only through cooperation among different countries, enterprises and individuals can many tough problems worldwide be effectively solved, such as greenhouse effects, depletion of ozone layer and species extinction.
In addition, mass media produces bad effects on growth of children. As to adults, mass media were regarded merely as sources of information and forms of entertainment. While when it comes to children, mass media serves more likely as moulders of personality, further affecting the values of Children directly or unconsciously because children tend to believe what mass media convey due to immature judging ability, and children are characterized by strong imitative powers. Unfortunately, mass media, both of traditional readings and television programs and newly-emerged Internet are rife with violent and porn contents. There even exist the horrible websites teaching the young tricks for suicide. Online games are another poison. Many children are addicted to various games, which inevitably distracts them from study and normal life, and even result in mental problems. To extreme extent, sudden death of some children after playing games for several days and nights has been reported.
In summary, we have not fully prepared to teach our children how to build a better society as analyzed above. As children can be influenced by every aspect of a society, the whole society should pay more attention to the healthy growth and appropriate cultivation of our masters of tomorrow.
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