▶ Your Answer :
There are some people who believe that teachers should
express their opinions on social and political issues in class for students.
However, in my opinon, I personally disagree with the above idea and I assert
that teachers should not convey their opinions related to debatable problems.
First, teacher's opinion nagetively affects on students' thinking and feeling.
Second, students do not have enough ability to evaluate teacher's opinions
whether the opinion is wrong or not.
First and foremost, teacher should provide only accurate
information because students cannot have critical views against subjective
contents when they are taught by biased perspectives from their teacher.
Students' undertanding of life is not mature and they are usually susceptible
to others' accounts. Therefore, they easily get exaggerated information and
flaw thought. The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of examples which
support my point why it is hard for students to assess teachers' opinions. When
I was in middle school and attended in Korean history class. My history teacher
told us that she revered the previous president Jung-hee Park. At that time, I
did not know about virtues which prominent Leader should have. I also believed
that the President was excellent. However, after a few years, I realized that
he was infamous for his dictatorship and try to restrict freedom of speach. In
addition, he infringed basic democratic principle. Come to think of that,
teachers' individual expression can offer wrong perspective unless their
knowledge are not corrected.
On top of that, student can feel unpleasure since students have
diverse senses of the value in one class. This is because teacher's opinion can
ignore students diversity because students are prone to follow teachers. Beyond
the typical phenomenon, current research demonstrates my point of view that how
teacher's remarks have a negative impact on student's views. According to a
poll conducted by the Korean Gallup with students in diverse grades as
respondents, teacher's private opinions made them unsatisfactory. The puropose
of the survey was to understand the consensus view about teacher's opinion on
social and political issues. A middle school girls said that when teachers
expresses biased opinon on public classes, this means that opinion of the other
side is not resfected, so she got angry. She added that using teacher's
authority, she feel that this conduct forced students to endorse teachers'
views. An other boy in high school stated that when he liestened to teachers' individual
claim which was different from his thought, he regarded his own opinion as
wrong one. Some experts pointed out that teachers' views at public space deters
students to have diverse opinion toward society and polity. This response substantiates
why teacher should avoide to reveal individual opinion toward their students.
To sum up, It is obvious that student should be not exposed
to teachers' private thinking related to political and social issues based on
limited students' capability and a variety of thoughts. In this regard, teachers
should maintain natual point of view even if they have some opinion about
controversial issues.
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