Topic: Some people think that teachers should be responsible for teaching students how to judge right and wrong and how to behave well.Some say that teachers should only teach students about academic subjects.Discu both views and give your opinion.
There is no denying that a teacher’s role in the overall development of a student is multifaceted.As teacher, one’s primary obligation is to teach students academic knowledge.Yet, it is equally important for him to make sure that the students make progrees in other aspects.
First of all, whether one can effectively pa academic knowledge to the students makes the first and most important criterion for judging him as a qualified or unqualified teacher.The main task for the students to perform at school is to lay a solid foundation for their study at a higher level, thus the task for a teacher is to aist them to achieve this goal.
Second, a teacher’s obligation is not just confined to paing on academic knowledge to the students.The students are also supposed to develop their ability to judge right from wrong, thus becoming good citizens when they step out of school.To do this, a teacher will have more roles to play than just teaching academic subjects.He will have to set a good example of morality himself and share or discu with his students his viewpoints towards different phenomena in the society.In a sense, apart from the role as pure academic teacher, he also serves the roles of students’ parents at school.
Admittedly, a teacher can relatively be more sure about the academic progre of the students, but not that sure about their moral development for the simple reason that the society is a big dyeing pool in which one’s being dyed into a certain color is the result of many factors of which family and many other things also have a role to play.Therefore, seen from this perspective, the influence of a teacher is, after all, limited.
From the above discuion, we can come to the conclusion that apart from teaching students academic subjects, a teacher should also try his best to would their personality and moral image.Meanwhile, the society as a whole is also supposed to work together to ensure the students’ overall development.
