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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
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Education generally refers to not only knowledge imparting but also potential inciting. A provocative question about it never ceases haunting the public: is it the most favorable way to teaching to praise positive behaviors and ignore negative ones? Undeniably, praising positive behaviors can stimulate students to take more actions that are similarly positive; however it also exerts negative impacts on students’ self-image. After all, ignoring negative behaviors is not a good policy to help with students’ development.
Considering students’ immature recognition of goodness and evil, it is indispensable for educators to act as the beacons in the dark night, directing students to the right way. It’s true that by praising positive behaviors, students would feel appreciated and thus gradually establish a virtuous circle that stimulates more positive actions. And in reality people indeed are inclined to do so. A child getting a decent grade will be praised and thus feel encouraged to study hard to get a similar grade or even a higher one, and then gain more accolades from people.
However, too much praising is not necessarily a good policy for students’ development. On one hand, it is easier for a student who is accustomed to getting approval from others to step on a slippery slope towards the snare of others’ values. All of what he or she does is merely conformity to standards, and more frequently, in my experience, this sort of person is always in fear of disagreement from others, which is to a large extent detrimental to his or her ingenuity and nerve in the long run. Once a celebrity has said, “it is often the ones who evoke the most schisms who make the most contributions to the world.” To educate our children to make a difference to the world, too much praising in fact should not be adopted taking into consideration their well-being development.
On the other hand, if a student receives only praise without blames, he or she will just fall into a formidable abysmal of conceit and only find frustration when facing the ones who are more competent than him/her. This does happen actually. It is not uncommon that a student who is called a talent from childhood finds himself/herself unavailing when he/she finally enters a university replete with talents. It is also regularly seen that a manager who becomes arrogant under subordinates’ compliments only finds himself/herself increasingly stagnant in personal advancement.
In addition, despite the bad results of negative behaviors, they sometimes can play a significant role in transfiguring a person. It is an unexpectedly good stimulus to help students confront failures, which is inevitable in heir future; it is an adverse paradigm to teach them what is good and what is bad, which can be more impressive than the positive ones.
On balance, although accolades are requisite for educating because of their functions of stimulating more positive actions, negative behaviors should also be good opportunities for educators to help their students develop. |
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发表于 2012-10-8 14:21:41
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