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An intriguing topic of discussion at hand is whether teachers should not make their social or political views known to students in the classroom. The answer to this question can vary greatly, depending on the individual perspectives. Thus, the jury may still be out, but as far as I am concerned, I agree with the statement. In this essay, I will present two reasons supporting my standpoint as follows. First off, students possibly become biased when teachers transmit their views. This is attributed to the reason that students are very susceptible to being partial becuase children have a tendency to accept adults' opinion without verifying. Also, since teachers are already grown-ups, they generally have their own concrete views which tend to be single-sided and these educators' views can be an obstacle for students to having a chance to judge matters on their own. For instance, one of my friends had a teacher who was extremely conservative. The teacher frequently instill his conservative political opinions and negative characteristics of progressive policies in class. Soon, my friend got used to the teacher's view and began to agree with the notion. As a result, my friend became very skeptical to certain political views without logical reason. On top of that, school is a venue for education not political discussion. As society has become more competitive, students are required to learn an enormous amount of information before they graduate. Because the amount of knowledge they have to acquire is enormous, the time for each subject is limited. This limited time is too valuable to be wasted on talking about political issues which usually have no plain answer. For example, when I was in middle school, my math teacher was so engrossed in social matters that he often spent much time on discussing the issues in class. Consequently, I could not learn a lot about math, and had to study myself in order to maintain academic performance. In conlcusion, I strongly argue for my standpoint on account of the two reasons mentioned above. Once again, the verdict may still be out. However, I personally believe that two of my rationales are sufficiently convincing to represent the viewpoint of the majority of people who are in favor of my claim. |