Some people say that the first priority of school education is based on delivering of knowledge. However, I agree the idea that character education which helps students to gain self-confidence is more important than teaching specific knowledge for two reasons. First, character education has greater impact on student’s life. Secondly, self-confident students obtain better results.
First of all, getting self-confidence is the most important event during their school years. Others may be important in their life. However, especially during school days, getting confidence is something have to happen to them. Let me take my teacher for example. Mr. Kim was one of my middle school teachers. He was famous for caring his students. He wanted to keep his students stay active therfore, he arranged basketball or soccer matches after school. Many students could develop their sociability through the team activities. Besides, they also could recharge and refresh themselves during extracurricular activities. Furthermore, his pupils enjoyed a variety of cultural events ranging from visiting museum to viewing art galleries. These activities helped students become well-rounded people and find their strengths. They became more and more confident students and their grades revealed these changes. Not only grades, their life was changed to positive manner. They tried scietific or essay competition with confidence and got the prizes. It is natural that these acitvities were really helpful for entering college. In this sense, the getting confidence in school has greater impact on students’ life.
Secondly, if you are confident person, it help you succede in many ways. People may think there are several factors to decide people’s success. However, the most influetial factor is a self-confidence. For instance, Yuna Kim, the most famous figure skater in the world has a great confidence about herself. She could the greatest achievement in history of female figure based on her confidence. However, when she was a little girl in elementary school, she lose her confidence because she mistaked in every steps and got lower grades due to her muscle weakness. At that time, every members of her family and teachers tried to encourage her to reobtain her confidence. Finally she became the world champion at the end of the last season. This show that teaching confidence in school is better important than teaching knowledge.
Without the cofidence, even if you are the most powerful player in the world, you lose match.
To sum up, people without confidence cannot do anything. Before teaching knowledge, teachers should boost their students’ confidence.
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