▶ Your Answer :
There are some people who believe that trying
to help students to gain self-confidence is more important for a teacher than
teaching them specific knowledge. However, I personally disagree with the above
idea for the two subsequent reasons. Firstly, these days, knowledge can be
gained from various places, but self-confidence cannot be. Also,
self-confidence leads students to have a successful life.
First, it is hard to gain self-confidence.
This is because students cannot get self-confidence from various places. However,
knowledge is different – students can get knowledge from a lot of sources such
as textbooks, YouTube, and so on and thus the teachers’ role is important for
letting students gaining self-confidence. Let me bring up my friend’s story as an
example. I had a friend called Jonghoon and he had a serious car accident when
he was young, so he had to stay in hospital and could not go to school in his
elementary school years. During the period, he studied hard to follow up their
classmates, reading textbooks and watching educational videos through YouTube,
and eventually he had entered science high school after he was back to school.
But after a few years, he gave up studying because he was not sure if he could
do well on quizzes and exams. He sometimes says that if he was taught in school
when he was sick, he could have gotten self-confidence and studied more
confidently.
Moreover, students can have a successful
life with self-confidence. In other words, self-confidence can let students to make
important decisions easily and think positively. According to recent research
done by Prof. Kim of Korea University, a majority of successful leaders said
that they have powerful self-confidence so they could easily decide which career
path to follow. Also, they added that it was gained from school when they were
young. This clearly shows that self-confidence has power to make students succeed
in their life and should be gained with the teachers’ help.
In conclusion, self-confidence is hard to be gained from various sources and lets students succeed in their life. In this
regard, I firmly believe that it is the most important for a teacher to try to
help students to gain self-confidence. |