▶ Your Answer :
There
has been an argument regarding the issue of whether understanding ideas and
concepts is more important than learning facts for students. Some people insist
that it is more valuable to understand ideas and concepts that it is to learn
facts because of broadening their views. For my perspective, however, learning
facts is more important than understanding ideas. In this essay, I will present
two reasons to support my viewpoint.
To start with, learning facts makes people
develop their own ideas. Recent studies have shown that acquiring facts can
broaden people's thinking. Because after listening facts, people start to think
about those and develop their own concepts. My personal experience can attest
this. When I wan in high school, I studied about 1970's political situation in
South Korea. The president at that time killed many innocent university
students for his extra ruling. So I tried to find more facts and documents
related that event. Finally, I had my own opinion about the event.
Secondly, learning facts can minimize the bias
related issues that students are studying. Students are taught by teachers.
When teachers teach students, they can give information and ideas. Sometimes
students are confused that the ideas from teachers are also information related
with a issue. Thus student can have a bias about a issue. For example, in
history class, my teacher taught us that Japan had do very crucial things to us
but those were all for our country. At that time I was thinking Japan was
trying to help our country and good country. But it featured out that it was
not true. Like this example, giving some ideas and concepts can makes students
have a bias.
To
sum up, My stance is that students should study only facts not ideas or
concepts. This is because that students can improve their ideas and do not have
a bias. |