10月14日 独立写作Do you agree or disagree with the statement that young people nowadays do not respect their teachers as much as they did in the past.
What is respect? “To admire someone, especially because of their personal qualities, contribution, knowledge, or skills; to give them polite greetings and regard them as important. That is to have respected.” According to the definition of “respect”, which given by Ralph Waldo Emerson, I do NOT agree with the statement that young people nowadays do not respect their teachers as much as they did in the past. Although today’s ways of showing respect to the teacher differ in expression from the old styles, it does not mean that young people nowadays do not treat teachers with great honor and respect as much as they do in the past.
Beyond all doubt, almost every government attaches such great attention, which is unprecedented in the history of the human being, to the education and instructors in recent years. As a consequence, young people put much emphasis on learning and admiring their teachers. Actually, young people show respect to their teachers in numerous ways. Such as sending best wish massages to their favourite lecturers on each festival, making amazing cards for instructors on the annual Teacher’s Day, holding a ceremonial dinner honoring their teachers after they obtain the chance to further their study, visiting homes of teachers and sharing their ideas toward life and study, etc.
In addition, respecting and honoring teachers has been part of human virtues since ancient times. Chinese young people, for instance, keep this tradition of honoring teacher alive well. Common it is, that students, especially pupils, are quite polite to teachers wherever and whenever they meet. More over, statistics indicate that fifty percent of undergraduate students and ninety percent of postgraduate students believe that they are most influenced by positive thoughts of their professor and lectures, and they are really grateful for it. Answers of TOEFL speaking section, as evidence, shows that a great deal of TOEFL takers consider their teacher to be the one who influence them most when they are answering the question that describe a person that who influenced you most, and these takers regard their professors as essential one in their life. Hence, Chinese instructors, who play the role of great importance in the whole life of Chinese students, are still honored by the young people.
At last, I would like to emphasize that young people nowadays still treat teachers with great honor and respect as much as they did in the past. Of course, there is a apparently difference lies in the ways of showing respect between the old day and today, yet it does not change the deep affection between teachers and young people.
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