▶ Your Answer :
Opinions might be divided over
whether they must not allow students to know the teacher's political
and social viewpoints in the class room. People of various ages and from
different walks of life may take diverse positions on this controversial issue.
Personally, I agree with the statement that knowing about teacher's political
view has a negative effect on students for the following reasons.
To begin with, teacher should not
let students to know teacher's political position,
because students are vulnerable to external influence. If students are
exposed to the subjective political thought, they could be attracted to the
thought easily. When I was a middle school student, there was a
big political conflict in Korea. One of my history teacher was so enthusiastic
about his own political view. Before history class started, the teacher always
talked about his opinion about the political issue and expressed that people
should view the issue as he did. Under the influence of him, Some of
my friends formed their political though which were the same with the
teacher's. Actually, both of the two different viewpoint about the issue
were not wrong. Because of him, my friends were forced to think of
the other part of people as wrong. If the teacher had not forced
them to have the same point of view, they could have stand at one part on their
own will. This clearly shows that students are susceptible
to teacher's words.
On top of
that, students would also feel uncomfortable with
teacher's talking about his or her political point of view.
The number of political viewpoint would be the same as the number of
people in a class. So, many students who do not stand with
a teacher's political standpoint could be defensive to the teacher.
Moreover, they could even reject to take the teacher’s class. A few years ago,
I had a chance to read an op-ed piece which was related to the topic. It
described the result of a survey conducted by Seoul National University social
science researchers with more than 500 random people living in Seoul. According
to the survey, more than 60 percent of them responded that they had an
experience to be forced to follow someone's political view. Among them, about
90 percent of them felt unpleasant from them. The respondents added that
they even have physical or emotional conflicts with others due to the
difference of political viewpoint. This clearly proves that students
could feel unpleasant to get to know their teacher's social view.
To sum
up with, since students are not only susceptible to teacher's social point
of view, but they can also feel uncomfortable, teachers should not be allowed
to show their political view to students. |