Although there is no complete consensus that has been reached on this topic, yet I would like to take a stance and make my agreement with the given thesis that teachers should not make their social and political views known to students in the classroom. In order to substantiate my central focal points, I will provide specific reasons and explore the given topic in great details in this essay.
To start with, students might get a biased perspective from teachers words and viewpoints about society and politics. Opponents of my perspective claim that it would be helpful for students to know more about social and political issues. Proponents of this view several points as the rationales for their argument and their argument might have some validity. But after closer look, there exists an abundance of examples that calling into question what they claim. Among such reasons, my personal experience can elucidate their incorrect viewpoint. When I was a middle school student, my history class teacher often talked about political issues. He was an advocate for contemporary president and he had a kind of biased point of view about the president. I did not really know that because I was not really interested in political issues. Accordingly, I thought everything he claimed was correct and I relied not on my own thoughts but on the teacher’s knowledge. However, after I got older and was interested in politics, I realized that the president was not as much good person as the teacher described. This validates my earlier contention that students might get a biased perspective from teachers viewpoint.
The account of mine that I illustrated above is not the only evidence to support my view. A recent survey conducted by one of the leading educational consulting firms in Korea endorsed my opinion when the survey respondents were asked whether they sided with the argument that teachers infuse their own perspectives to students and deprive the students’ opportunity to think of issues in a neutral position or not. A leading education expert claims that think of the issues in a neutral position is really important in a student age. This is because, it can be a practice not to make fundamental mistake that looking at something in a biased point of view when they became an adult. However, if students get information about politics and society from teachers with their limited knowledge, and information will inevitably be somewhat biased. It is horrible situation, if students have a partial opinion from their young ages.
In conclusion, in spite of the fact that there may be some opinions that it is OK that teachers make their social and political views known to students in the classroom. However, taking into all the factors that I described above, we may reach to the conclusion that teachers should not make their own social and political perspectives known to their students in the classroom.