Some people believe that the institution of teachers teaching students in classrooms will become extinct until 2050. Do you agree or disagree with this thinking? Give your reasons.
SAMPLE 1
The tradition of classroom teaching and learning has been in existence for hundreds of years. But it faces challenges in the high-tech modern society and some people even believe classroom education will disappear in a couple of decades. While admitting that traditional mode of education indeed faces threats of new forms of education, I still believe the former will not disappear so quickly and easily due to its many irreplaceable merits.
No one will argue that teaching is interpersonal communication. Communication could be enormously facilitated by technical progress; however, communication would be unimaginable if it is totally free of face-to-face communication, especially for communication between families, friends and teachers and students.
In history, classroom teaching has faced threats from radios, televisions and computers, but it survived the latter two and get strengthened by utilizing them. Now classroom teaching is facing threats from computers and smartphones that could run all kinds of educational apps. But teachers and students are turning the "threats" into effective instruments that could revitalize rather than undermine traditional classroom teaching. All those apps and equipment are complements rather than replacements of face-to-face teaching and learning, for teaching and learning are in a way like parenting and intersexual affection, and the most significant investment is emotion which demands face to face communication.
With those being said, I believe classroom education may die some day, but not in the year 2050, because it relies on the investment of human emotion which would be impossible without face-to-face communication. Meanwhile, modern technologies would facilitate the advancement of classroom education rather than beget its extinction.
SAMPLE 2
With the sweeping advancement of technologies in this era hinging on computers and smartphones, some people believe traditional education would be substituted by new forms of teaching. While seeing the causes of such an assumption, I believe classroom teaching and learning would be existent beyond 2050.
It is true that education in a sense means passing knowledge and wisdom from former generations to later ones, and theoretically speaking, that does not necessarily have to happen in physical classrooms filled by teachers and students. However, education means far more than knowledge and wisdom acquiring; it also means character building and emotional evolution. Virtual classrooms could replace reals ones and knowledge and information could flow smoothly there. But without interacting with fellow students and real teachers, from whom can learners obtain vital skills like socializing and reconciliation? If fellow students and teachers made of flesh and blood could be replaced by sophisticated technologies, then parents would also give way to technical substitutes.
Disbelieving the disappearance of traditional education does not equal negating the facilitating function of advancing technologies. Instead, the belief and confidence in classroom education is based on its flexible ability in taking advantage of technologies so as to make adjustment and progress. Since the appearance of radios and televisions, traditional education is said to be under threat. I firmly believe classroom teaching and learning will utilize rather than succumb to the so-called threatening modes as it has done in the past.
SAMPLE 1
The tradition of classroom teaching and learning has been in existence for hundreds of years. But it faces challenges in the high-tech modern society and some people even believe classroom education will disappear in a couple of decades. While admitting that traditional mode of education indeed faces threats of new forms of education, I still believe the former will not disappear so quickly and easily due to its many irreplaceable merits.
No one will argue that teaching is interpersonal communication. Communication could be enormously facilitated by technical progress; however, communication would be unimaginable if it is totally free of face-to-face communication, especially for communication between families, friends and teachers and students.
In history, classroom teaching has faced threats from radios, televisions and computers, but it survived the latter two and get strengthened by utilizing them. Now classroom teaching is facing threats from computers and smartphones that could run all kinds of educational apps. But teachers and students are turning the "threats" into effective instruments that could revitalize rather than undermine traditional classroom teaching. All those apps and equipment are complements rather than replacements of face-to-face teaching and learning, for teaching and learning are in a way like parenting and intersexual affection, and the most significant investment is emotion which demands face to face communication.
With those being said, I believe classroom education may die some day, but not in the year 2050, because it relies on the investment of human emotion which would be impossible without face-to-face communication. Meanwhile, modern technologies would facilitate the advancement of classroom education rather than beget its extinction.
SAMPLE 2
With the sweeping advancement of technologies in this era hinging on computers and smartphones, some people believe traditional education would be substituted by new forms of teaching. While seeing the causes of such an assumption, I believe classroom teaching and learning would be existent beyond 2050.
It is true that education in a sense means passing knowledge and wisdom from former generations to later ones, and theoretically speaking, that does not necessarily have to happen in physical classrooms filled by teachers and students. However, education means far more than knowledge and wisdom acquiring; it also means character building and emotional evolution. Virtual classrooms could replace reals ones and knowledge and information could flow smoothly there. But without interacting with fellow students and real teachers, from whom can learners obtain vital skills like socializing and reconciliation? If fellow students and teachers made of flesh and blood could be replaced by sophisticated technologies, then parents would also give way to technical substitutes.
Disbelieving the disappearance of traditional education does not equal negating the facilitating function of advancing technologies. Instead, the belief and confidence in classroom education is based on its flexible ability in taking advantage of technologies so as to make adjustment and progress. Since the appearance of radios and televisions, traditional education is said to be under threat. I firmly believe classroom teaching and learning will utilize rather than succumb to the so-called threatening modes as it has done in the past.
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