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第十九次作业:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for
a teacher try to help students to gain self-confidence than to teach them specific
knowledge. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer(03/10/07).
交作业时间4月8号(星期三)晚上十点前
The issue broached a problem which is hard to find the answer for choosing one of the two. Considering the current phenomenon, an increasing number of students who are devoid of self-confidence, I find it is inevitably for a teacher to help students to build up self-confidence. In this case to teach them specific knowledge is not such an urgency.
Initally, students with little confidence can not achieve self-worth during their lives.
Henry Ford, the American founder of the Ford Motor Company, said “Whether you think you can or think you can’t---you are right.” Thus it can be seen that the most essential thing for success is not the caste of people but the confidence of them. For example, without enough self-confidence, Barack Obama cannot stand at the stage of American president. His remarks “Yes, we can” after he won the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina, show a strong confidence for leading American to a better life, and it is his confidence that makes people vote for him. Contrarily, if he had not believed that he could do it, he would have quit the election even never attended. So when it come to a student, he/she can reach the high level of studying with more confidence.
Furthermore, lacking of self-trust probably results in weariness of studying. A multitude of Psychological tests for students revealed a high figure of weariness. I can remember one of this kind surveys that had been done in my middle school, and the result is that fifteen percents of us are considered as disliking study. Just like a classmate of mine who is not so good at sports that makes her self-contemptuous in P.E. classes, so she did not like P.E. classes then, and merely get an eligible mark in most of examinations. I think that the P.E. teacher should have encouraged her to gain self-confidence, for sports is really a significant part in childhood.
Thirdly, students with inferiority complex are not able to use knowledge that taught by teachers through an ingenious way. In the case that people can not be assure about themselves, they are likely to do no better than accept others’ ideas. They are obviously not capable of managing those ideas to create new objects or thoughts for the reason that they can not be sure with their thoughts.
Admittedly, specific knowledge is very necessary for a student to enter advancing study. However confidence is a basement of a good character that any person should have for their whole lifetime. So it is absolutly important for a teacher to help students gain self-confidence than to teach them specific knowledge.
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