Nowadays, television serves many purposes such as educational, entertaining and informational purpose to various kinds of people. Some people might enjoy watching television for entertaining, but I strongly believe that television should be educational for people for these reasons; it is watched by all generations, and educational shows are helpful to everyone.
Television should be educational since it is viewed by people from different generations. They include grown-ups, elderly, teenagers and even young children. Since it is watched by people whose intelligence levels vary, television shows should be produced to be adequate for all of them. It seems clear that rumors, gossips and commercial shows are not proper to young children who do not have ability to discriminate information. In this sense, people with little life experience might have serious problem in separating reality from television shows. However, when television serves educational purposes, it will satisfy people from various generations since they do not contain any harmful information and will not cause any negative problems.
Furthermore, educational television shows are helpful to us. There are documentary films, soap dramas which contain meaningful lessons, history films and other plenty of shows that are interesting and at the same time, helpful. Since many people watch television on their free time in order to have fun, these educational shows will not only relieve their stress, but also offer practical knowledge. Therefore, people can benefit a lot from watching television from getting rid of stress to gaining knowledge. For example, one research has shown that people learn easier and faster by watching television than reading books since it is multimedia which provides both picture and sound. It means that making television educational will advantage a huge amount of people who enjoy watching it.
In conclusion, even though there are many big fans of entertaining shows, the main role of television should be educational. Considering that television is watched by people with different ages and educational shows can be both amusing and advantageous, it seems clear that television should be educational. |