▶ Your Answer : Learning methods can be various and only upon people. Each different method has its own advantages. My preference is, however, having a teacher around me. There are two compelling reasons, which will be discussed further in the essay. First, with the help from a teacher, students can decrease time struggling with the questions. An individual cannot always have comprehensive knowledge and ability to understand certain tasks, thus when facing difficult or unknown questions and subjects, either it takes greater time to understand the task or experience downright failure to understand the task itself. However, the teacher can offer an explanation or give hints about how to interpret the questions. For example, when I was in high school, I struggled a lot with mathematics. Since I was an extreme introvert, I could not dare to ask. When my math teacher figured out that I experienced serious difficulties in understanding the question, he gave a slight hint that I was able to utilize to solve the question. It only took roughly ten minutes to retrieve an answer of the question I fought for two days. After that experience, I realized that guidance that teachers can provide to students can significantly decrease time that students struggling with the questions. It also contributes not to lose students' willingness to pursue the subject further. Thanks to his advice at the right time, I took several advanced mathematics classes in college. Second, from teachers students can learn not only information on textbooks, but also how to react to various types of human in society. In retrospect, there were some teachers were literally an epitome of ideal teachers, whereas some were well below the par. Not only did they discriminate students based on scores in tests, but also hit students without any reasonable excuses. Sadly, society shows same features, such as discrimination, unreasonable violence. Thus, by being exposed to different types of teacher, students are able to pick up some of know-hows on how to stand up against irrational accusations or do not feel dejected due to such discrimination. To sum up, it is better to have a teacher. It is because the teacher can influence students' academical life, by guiding them in a good way. In addition, it is because the teacher can help students to build moral characters and integrity by displaying bad examples. |