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One of the most overriding events is the rising cases of juvenile delinquents. After deliberately meditating on it, I think there may be several reasons, as following:
On the one hand, education, I think, shouldn’t be reluctant to burden the responsibility of these cases. Currently, when most people think of the word "education", they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Into this empty casing, the teachers are supposed to stuff "education". In this way, students were so stuffed with miscellaneous facts, with an indigestible mass of material, that they had no time to draw on their own resources, to use their own minds for analyzing and synthesizing, and evaluating this material. It is imaginable that how it would be when children find they have to confront the teachers with an ax to grind everyday. This way of education is undoubtedly tedious and futile. Genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not inserting the suffings of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from him, it is drawing out of what is in the mind. Only this way can steer the children toward a glorious future, instead of wandering in the dark corners of streets and bearing endless tediousness of unscrupulous lectures.
On the other hand, parents should also share a responsibility for these cases. As the epoch approaching, comparing to the past, parents nowadays confront more pressures. These pressures are so deeply intertwined that crises would sometimes be exploded in the parents, such as parents’ separation, fathers’ excessively alcoholic drinking. All these in their turns affect the children’s mental characters to some extent imaginable. Therefore, children in this environment often find themselves stand at the brink of no cares and loves from their parents. Obviously, as surveys have displayed, children become the victims of the from-time-to-time crises between their parents. |
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