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Opinions might be divided over whether hindering children from watching television could encourage children to study harder. People of various ages and from different walks of life may take a diverse positions on the controversial issue. I side with the perspective that it is not an effective way to prohibit children from watching television to uplift their studies for the following two reasons: watching television will be conducive to get a lot of backgrounds to study and it is evident for children to do something else even though their parents hinder the children from watching television.
To begin with, watching television will be great tools for children in order to know about many backgrounds. A lot of backgrounds can contribute to helping their understanding and studying. Opponents of my perspective claim that TV would be a great negative factor that keep children from studying. Advocates' claim might be reasonable enough on the surface. However, if we take a closer look at their contentions. The rationale for their assertions lacks logic in many ways. Moreover, my personal example can definitely debunk their claims. When I was in high school, I usually liked watching a television program. For this reason, I got so many kinds of knowledge from the television programs. Therefore, when I was studying at that time, I felt that I could understand easily science sector because I know about many things, so I could concentrate on studying more easily and end up being encouraged. The same applies to most people like me.
Besides, it is taken for granted that children like watching television, so if they do not watching television, they might find something else. Some children who does not make a habit of studying hard could not do their best if they does not want to learn. In addition to my personal anecdote, many articles from different newspapers reaffirm my viewpoints. A few weeks ago, I read an op-ed pieces that is related to the topic. It described the result of a survey, which was conducted by Seoul National University social science researchers with more than 500 children. They were controlled by the researchers not to see television. The purpose of the survey was to understand the consensus view about whether watching television or not could encourage children to studying hardly. Of 500 children surveyed, over 80 percent answered that they wanted to find another things, specifically hanging out with their friends or playing games more frequently. This clearly proves that prohibiting television does not matter to the children when studying hardly.
As I mentioned above, based on the two examples, I can conclude that I disagrees with the idea that parents have to avoid letting their children to watch TV in order to encourage them to study hardly.
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