▶ Your Answer : Some people might think that students should be exposed to teachers' opinion on social and political issues in class. However, in my opinion, it's better off for students not being exposed to teachers' opinion on social and political issues in class. The rationale behind this is that students are easily affected by teachers and that we can't exclude the possibility of intervention of the outside power. To begin with, teachers can have a significant impact on students' thought. Students are immature persons who don't build their independent and complete perspectives on the society issues yet. This is because they haven't gone through many experiences when compared to adults who have had many more opportunities to encounter diverse experiences. In addition, students spend most of their time listening to teachers' lectures in school. Therefore, there is a high possibiliy for students of following teachers' perspectives on social and political issues. This may cause severe problem for students because they can't make their opinions on the issues on their own if they follows teachers' opinion completely. For example, when I was in middle school, my history teacher used to expose his personal opinions on the government's policies. Since I was young and inexperienced, I thought what he's saying was complete and absolute fact. However, I watched a news dealing with the issues the teacher had talked and found out his opinions were narrowed and exaggerated. On top of that, the external power can make use of this to benefit themselves. The external power here include the government and businesses. The privileged and governors may make teachers' to inject opinions on social and political issues into students to achieve their goals. The representative example for this case is the education going on in North Korea. Kim dynasty intervenes deeply in the teaching process in schools to justify their despotic and violent government. Teachers are made to impart information advocating their government, and students are naturally exposed to the narrow and wrong perspectives towards the social and political issues. To sum up, I firmly believe that students should not be exposed to teacher's opinion on social and political issues. Students are too young not to being affected by teachers opinons and the outward power can make use of this to benefit themselves. The importance of my rationale couldn't be underestimated for the reasons I've mentioned above.
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