Sunday, February 20, 2011

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.

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