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Some
people think that television should broadcast a lot of entertainment programs.
However, in my opinion, TV should be used as an educational tool rather than an
entertainment. This is because television can be a useful tool for learning and
entertainment shows on TV can give children negative effects.
First of all, television can be a useful
learning tool. Since TV can make sound effects and visual images, it offers the
easy comprehension of the content to people. For example, many students watch
educational programs on TV in Korea and schools encourage teachers to use TV as
a learning tool to teach their students. When I was in high school, I watched a
regular TV program regarding to scientific contents during the class. It helped
me understand about complicated scientific theories and phenomena by giving me
realistic sound and visual effects. From the educational program on TV, I could
learn many things easily and get a good grade in science.
On
top of that, I believe entertainment shows on TV have bad influence on
children. Many of entertainment programs on TV possess a lot of vulgar language
and shows violent footage to children. I realized this when I met my nephew
last time who is eight year-old. When I met him, we talked about his school
life and his friends. What I surprised is that he used many bad words to
express his experience in school. I was very shocked and asked him where did he
learn those kind of language. He said that he watches a TV program dealing with
variety of computer games and the people who play the games on TV use the bad
words he just spitted out. He also mentioned that he did not know these words
are bad because nobody tell him that those words are curses.
In a
nutshell, taking TV’s educational potential and negative effects on children
into consideration, I firmly believe that television should be used to instruct
people rather than to entertain them.
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