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Recently, general awareness about whether it is wise to let children to avoid
watching television in order to encourage them to study harder has aroused
heated arguments. Some people, nonetheless, claim that conventional wisdom is right,
other deems otherwise. From my personal point of view, I firmly believe that the
conventional wisdom is wrong. I strongly argue that watching television is a
great instrument to encourage children to study harder. There are reasons and
examples as follows.
First and foremost, watching special programs can inspire children’s
motivation of study. There are very beneficial television programs which are
helpful to stimulate children’s curiosity of study. For example, television
programs such as National Geography and World History are useful to inspire
children to get interested in science and history. According to a study
conducted by Yonsei University. There were two different groups: students in
group A watched national geography two times in a week over six months, while
students in group B didn’t watch this program and just studied science through
text books. The finding of this study reveals that students in Group A received
higher grades then students in group B. Group A’s average scores were higher
than Group B’s scores by 17 percentages. This study implies the National
Geography was a useful instrument to inspire students to get interested in
sciences. Dr. Kim who was the director of this study points out that television
programs are helpful tools to encourage students to study harder.
Second, watching television, as a reward, is a great tool to release children’s
stress in order to let them concentrate on studying again. There are numerous
television programs which can help to release stress, for instance, comedy shows
or sports programs. According to Dr. Lee who is a senior research at the Korea
Institute for National Education, Dr. Lee argues that watching television
programs after finishing daily tasks are helpful to release stress. Dr. Lee’s
team conducted a experiment to find out the correlates between watching TV and
releasing stress. The stress level of 75 samples, who were high school
students, out of 100 reduced significantly after watching comedy shows for two
hours. Dr. Lee’s team conducted a follow up study which explores the correlate
between the stress level and high school grades. The finding shows that the
lower the students have stress, the higher the students receive higher grades.
This implies that watching TV as a reward played an important role to release
stress, and consequently this encourage student to study again.
Considering these findings, I firmly casts doubt on
the conventional wisdom that parents should avoid children watching televisions
in order to encourage study. The aforementioned two examples show that watching
television is beneficial to encourage students to study. First, television
programs are helpful to inspire students’ curiosity and to visualize
complicated knowledge. Second, watching television programs, as a reward, are
an important instrument to release stress which encourage students to study
harder.
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