Can the machine ever replace a teacher?

Can a machine ever replace a teacher?

I feel that a machine can never replace a teacher.

I feel that a machine can never replace a teacher as a machine cannot guide you. The job of the teacher is to provide the students and learners with resources and to further explain the information.A teacher can also ask questions to stimulate critical thinking processes in students. A teacher can gain new knowledge when teaching students and can always formulate new and innovative ways to teach students when he or she finds that the student is not really interested in the way he or she teaches. However, a machine cannot do so. A machine is only programmed to teach and it cannot learn. If a machine cannot learn, it cannot learn from its pass mistakes and teach in new and innovative ways. Hence, it will always use the same methods to teach its students even though the students do not like the method it is using. Hence, a machine can never replace a teacher in that aspect.

Another reason why a machine cannot replace a teacher is because a teacher is one with life and with the five senses. He can sense when his students are bored, he can feel anger and and scold the students if the students have done something wrong or have not done well in an exam. However, a machine cannot feel such emotions. Hence a machine will not lecture or reprimand the student when he or she has done something wrong. Thus, this shows that a machine cannot replace a teacher as it cannot feel emotions and do things appropriately in that aspect.

With the following points above, i conclude that a machine can never replace a teacher in the classroom or when learning.

Blog prompt: BEP where is the love.

The song is about terrorism, war and warped values.

I feel that the issues discussed by the song are extremely important. However, i think it all starts with the upbringing of the child. If a child is thought to be truthful, peaceful and brought up to be a good man, things such as terrorism, war and others will not happen. However, if a child is not thought properly, he will have warped values and start to do bad things. These will thus result in the child being attracted to things such as terrorism and war. In America, the people make the decisions as it is a democratic country. Imagine if these children grew up and began to vote. If the country is about to go to war, they would definitely vote for war instead of peace. Hence, i think that the upbringing of the child is extremely important as it affects all of the factors above.

I also feel that the media would result in the things the song mentioned happening. I feel that this is so as the nowadays, the media promotes violence and other warped values. The media also promotes sex and drugs. With the media promoting these things, many people would want to follow the things the people do in the movies or television programmes. Thus, more people will commit crimes such as taking drugs. 

With the above points, i can conclude that terrorism, war and warped values are created when one is brought up in the wrong way or is in a bad environment.

There are also many other injustices in society today. One such injustice is racism. Many people dislike others of different races because of their different skin colour. Many people dislike others with coloured skin because of their 'impurity of skin". Many people think that coloured people are sinful and that coloured people all have committed heinous crimes in their lives.However, this also has to do with the upbringing of a person and his or her environment. If a person is thought to hate coloured people and look down on them, he will do so in future. If a person is in an environment or place where most people hate coloured people, he will also do so in time as he wants to fit into that environment.

From the above points i made, i can thus conclude that all injustices in society have to do with one's upbringing.

Poem:Sunken bells are tolling for thee

Sunken bells are tolling for thee**
No matter how brave
No matter how strong
None will escape her
When she wants to collect what is rightfully hers

Sunken bells are tolling for thee
Her claws are rising
Her mouth is widening
She shall devour thee
As she wants to collect what is is rightfully hers

Sunken bells are tolling for thee
As the ship is ripped
As the ship is wrecked
Thee shall fall into her embrace
When she wants to collect what is rightfully hers

Sunken bells are tolling for thee
As thee floats down
As thee drowns
Thee shall be wrapped in darkness
As she wants to collect what is hers

Sunken bells are tolling for thee

**The line sunken bells are tolling for thee is taken from The Comic book series B.P.R.D by Mike Mignola.
     However, the poem is original

Which has a greater impact on the upbringing of a child, Nurture or Nature?

What is nature and nurture? Nature is the genes and personality one person is born with while nurture, or nurturing, is the act of teaching one person habits and how to have good personality. So which has a greater impact on the upbringing of the child? I personally believe that Nurture and Nature both have an impact on the upbringing of a child but a child's nature has a greater impact on his or her upbringing.

A child can be nurtured from young to do certain things. For example, a child can be born left-handed but be trained to use their right hand instead. A child can also be nurtured to do things in a certain way or talk to people in a certain way. However, one can only be nurtured to act in someways and do things in someways when they are at a very young age.When they are older, and their true nature and attitude start to become more obvious and prominent, it will become harder to nurture the child to do otherwise.

When a child is older, his or her true nature and personality will start to become more prominent as he or she will commit more acts that shows that. For example, a child who has and extreme dislike for coloured people from young will tend to show his or her dislike for coloured people openly only at an older age as he or she will become braver. As children grow older, they tend to become more rebellious, hence they will not listen to their parents when their parents tell them do act or think otherwise. When the children do not listen to their parents, it shows that nurturing in that aspect has failed as the parents will not be able to nurture their children to do otherwise.

Hence, this shows that nature has a stronger impact on the upbringing of a child than nurture or nurturing. However, nature can be stopped at an early age. Parents can try to communicate more with their children to find out their nature and their personality when their children are young. This way, it will be easier to nurture the children to do otherwise.

Good genes or meritocracy?

         Having good genes or smart genes does not mean that your children will do well in life. Although most students in top schools such as Raffles Institution and Hwa Chong Institution have parents who are at least university graduates, I believe that to succeed, one must depend on hard work, and not just depend on one’s “smart” genes.

         Having “smart” genes gives you a head start in your studies as you are smarter than others and your parents can also help you in your studies. However, from then on, one has to depend on hard work to succeed in life. If one only has the brains, but is not willing to work hard to achieve what one aims to achieve, one will not succeed in life.

         I know this as I have faced such a problem before. When I was 10, I decided not to study for my math test as I had always aced the math test. However, when I sat for the examination, I did not know how to do about 25% of the questions. Hence, I did very badly for the examination. My parents are graduates and they hold top jobs in the companies they are working in. However, to be honest, I am not doing very well at school as I had failed my overall end of year examinations last year. I had failed because I was not hardworking enough and did not have the motivation to do my ace and projects day project properly.

         Through past experience, I can conclude that having brains and “smart” genes does not nesaccerily mean that you will do well in your examinations and succeed in life.

Problem gambling:Casinos' fault or Gamblers' fault

I personally believe that problem gambling is caused by the gambler's lack of self control instead of the two new casinos in Singapore.

Problem gambling has been on the rise since the casinos at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) and Marina Bay Sands (MBS) were opened. Many people blame the rise of problem gambling cases on the opening of the casinos. However, i feel that most of the problem gambling cases arise from the gambler's lack of self control. The casinos have already imposed a 100 dollar levy for Singaporeans who want to enter the casinos. However, due to the gambler's lack of self control, they do not mind the 100 dollar levy as they have the urge to gamble.

As they lose more money in gambling, gambling addicts will have the feeling that their luck will change and they keep gambling. This is a result of lack of self control.If the gamblers can control themselves, they will know that they do not have enough money to gamble and will stop gambling. Without self control, these gamblers will gamble until they have no money left, resulting in them borrowing money from unlicensed money lenders, otherwise known as loan sharks.

However, all the blame cannot be put on the gamblers. With the two new casinos opened, it will be more convenient for the gamblers to gamble. Instead of heading to other countries such as Malaysia and Macau to gamble, the gamblers can just head to the casinos at RWS and MBS to gamble. They also do not need to pay membership to enter the casinos while they need to have membership cards to enter mini casinos at places such as SAFRA.

Smart and Lazy? Or Not so smart and hardworking?

       When one is smart, one tends to understand things much faster than one who is not so smart, or in other words, stupid. However, why do the not so smart ones do better than the smart ones in the exams? The answer is that they are hardworking.
       However, i tend to realise that the not so smart but hardworking people tend to forget how to do the various problems that they had learnt after they have completed their examinations. Why is this so? It is because they tend to just remember the formulas or the explanations by heart. When they remember these things by heart, they are not actually understanding the formulas, hence, they will tend to forget these things one they have passed the exam which has tested this things.
       Smart people who are lazy, are just as bad, or maybe even worse. They do understand the topic that was thought, but they don't even want to try to study for the exam which tests these topics as they think that they are already very smart and that they do not need to study for the exam. This will result in overconfidence and laziness, and hence, they will not do well in the exam.
    

philosophical question: Can a robot be a human?

If a robot is programmed to do all things humans do, to feel all things that humans feel and to learn like humans do, can it possibly be a human?

It is a tricky philosophical question. However, i feel that a robot cannot be a human.Firstly, a robot is programmed to have feelings like we do. hence when we hit it, it can only do as its programme tells it to do. It cannot do otherwise. When some of us get hit, we will just not retaliate and forgive the person. However, a robot, which is programmed to be angry when it gets hit, cannot understand the circumstances under which it was hit and hence cannot act in other ways, hence a robot cannot be a human.

A robot also cannot truly feel things like a human. It is only programmed to do so. Hence, it can never truly act like a human and react to different situations. It can only do as it is programmed, so, it will not be able to improvise like a human. When hit accidentally, they can only express anger. When laughed at, they can only express anger. When someone shares a joke, they must laugh, hence, how can a robot programmed to be a human actually be a human? 

Furthermore, people make mistakes, a robot which is programmed can never make mistakes as it will always follow its computer programme that guides it. Humans will always make mistakes but a robot cannot make mistakes, hence this shows that a robot cannot be a human.