To succeed in educating someone, the role of teacher is substantially important. In other words, students can become fascinated to study and obtain more knowledge if the teacher is excellent. Although, to be a good educator, the teacher should make their students motivated for study by some extols, teaching specific and correct knowledge is much more important due to the possibility of giving wrong information and being arrogant students.
Teacher should educate their students with exact information. For the self-confidence of students, if the teacher says good words to students even though they are wrong, not only it results in temporary confidence, but it also possible that they can obtain wrong information from their teacher. When I was a university student, I took part in an English conversation class. Students of the class usually talked one another in English with coach of the teacher. Unfortunately, although I took the class for a long time, I still am not good at speaking English since the teacher always said to me that your English was enough to have a conversation with some native persons. I think it was a white lie for my confidence and motivation. However, it was not works.
Sometimes, strong self-confidence can be obstacle for hard study. One of the most dangerous thought of the students is that I am enough or I am already good. At the Stanford, Steve jobs, CEO of APPLE, gave to students a wise saying, ‘Stay hungry Stay foolish.’ This saying emphasizes the importance of the attitude of pursuing knowledge and the dangerous of the heavy self-confidence. With this though, he has recently made a renovation in the IT world. From his success, we can obtain a lesson - being humble and taking more knowledge is better for a student than having confidence. Consequently, teacher should educate their student with specific knowledge rather than make them confidence.
The role of the teacher has a crucial effect on education. Despite of the importance of self-confidence, the teacher should put his/her full effort to educate students for getting a lot of knowledge. It is because that giving exalt for confidence can make expected negative effects such as arrogance and laziness. Moreover, well-educated status is considered as the most important virtue for students. Therefore, it seems to me that the more important role of the teacher is teaching student specific information than giving students self-confidence. |