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 issue on children's socialization has long been the cynosure of educators and parents. According to the speaker, a society's destiny is determined by the fact that how our children are socialized today. Furthermore, he reaches a somehow desperate conclusion that we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help to establish an overall better society. In my view, not only does the speaker overly emphasize the significance of children' socialization to a society's destiny, but also the way we have adopted to raise children nowadays is not so bad as the speaker thinks.

Firstly, although the socialization of our next generation plays an important role in the cultural and moral aspects of existing society, the destiny of society is not necessarily determined by how children are socialized. Common sense tells us that what children are taught and how they are socialized both exert a crucial effect to future society. Education of knowledge and critical thinking skills explains...