Should a teacher make their political views known to students?
Rencently, there is a widespeard concern over the issue that if teachers should make their social or political views known to students in the classroom. In my opinion, it can be accepeted if the teacher 's emotion is not that excited to enforce the students acknowledge it but just declaring it smoothly.
For the one thing, not only should a students learn the knowledges from the textbooks, but they also need to learn methods to improve their spirit and boarder their horizons.There is an old Chinese saying goes"Giving people fishes is worse than teaching people to fish".Giving students some views of politics and society do benefit students with better comprehening the environment they lived, which is seen like a way of "fishing".
For another, I think the aiming of claiming the viewpoints of politics and society should be giving students serveal new ideas to stimulate their interest of exploring some new areas they may never get step in ,instead of making the students become the fanatical faithful of the standpoint from their teachers . That kind of "teacher"are not able to be called a teacher any more, but much more like a missionary.So it is valued to make teachers ' social or political views known to the whole class with a positive target, after all it open a window to make student see some new wonderful secenries from diffierent aspects of the society.
In conclusion, whether making teachers' social or political views known to students is correct or not depend on the purpose of teachers' tutoring.Learning about others' standpoints toward not only the politics but the situation around us make us consider the phemomna, then improve of ability to identify which imformation I got from it is usful and which is totally nagetive for us.In short, it is really helpful for the students to make progress in their abilities of thinking and distingushing.
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