▶ Your Answer :These days in Korea, teachers in school are not allowed to reveal their opinion about specific political issues. This is beacause many people agree with the idea that students should not be exposed to teachers's opinion on social and political issues in class. Also, I strongly agree with this statement. First, teacher's statement can block students to make their own opinion. Second, teacher's specific statement can make students blame other student's opinion. First of all, teacher's statement on political issues can block students make their own opinion. Since teacher is an influential person to students that teach only right things in general, students will tend to follow teacher's opinon. For example, when I was 15 years old, my middle school teacher told me that she thinks eating dog meat is not a bad thing. I usually respected my teacher because she was always smart and kind to everyone. So, with no suspicion, I thought it was an absolutely right statement. And I grew up with agreeing with that statement. However, now I think eating dog meat is really bad thing becasue they are also our family. Like this, just because it was my teacher's opinion, I thought she was right with no critical thinking. Second, teacher's specific statement can make students blame other student's opinion. If the leader of the class who is teacher makes an opinion, most of students will tend to follow that opinion, and other students who think it is an wrong opinion will get teased from other students. For example, my friend susan who attended in political class had an debate about utilizing CCTV in several places. Before the debate began, teacher claimed that she disagree about utilizing CCTV in everywhere. Students started to agree on her statement. When my friend claimed that she thinks CCTV is beneficial for decreasing crimes, other students blamed her that it is wrong argument and said that she has a weird opinion. This situation occureed because teacher made students agree on specific opinion and made one's other opinion as wrong thing. In conclusion, I strongly believe that students should not be exposed to teacher's opinion on social and political issues in class. It is clear that teachers are people who should encourage students to make several opinions and experience the critical thinking project without making them biased on specific opinion. |