Q) A teacher's ability to relate well with students is more important than to give them knowledge.

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There is some debate whether giving knowledge to students is more important than relating well with them. Some people might say that a teacher's ability to relate with students is most important because it can give emotional benefits for them. However, in my opinion, giving them knowledge is more important than making a good relationship because of following reasons.

 

 First, learning knowledge is important for student’s future career. In other words, if they did not take a high score to enter a university, their time could be lagged behind others. For example, when I was in a middle school, one of my teachers has a great personality but his teaching was terrible. Even though we had liked him, we were not able to get a high score at a college entrance exam. Make no mistake, I did not mean that he should be blamed. However, if we had learned from a better teacher, we would have taken better scores.

 

 Second, good relationship between a teacher and students can make a biased attitude. That means, if you have a good relationship with a certain student, you could not have an objective perspective. For instance, when I worked as a teaching volunteer in a local university, I have a good relationship with students. However, because of that, I felt hard to be subjective to every student. To be specific, if some students have good relationship with me, I was not able to blame him impartially.

 

 In summary, I believe the first and foremost concerns for the teachers should be a teaching. Not only because it can give a head-start but also because it might lead to a partial attitude to a teacher.