Will There Still Be Teachers And Schools In The Future?

Teachers and schools are two of the most influential things for a person, especially in childhood. A teacher does not only show us how to read and how to count, they also teach us how to act and lead us to do good things. They plant seeds that will make us who we are when we grow up. A teacher does not always have to be the one at school, but a teacher can also be our mom, dad, older brother, or even our friend. In fact, parents are usually the one that teaches us the most important thing in life, which is how to love. Schools are important because it is the place where a student not only learns many subjects, but it is also the place where a child first interacts with many people their age. These so called friends will also have a large impact for building a child’s identity.

But these days, electronic devices are getting more and more sufficient on being a child’s learning source. With the internet, it feels as if we can learn anything just by pressing a few buttons. We have Google, the most famous search engine. When we a type a keyword into it, it shows us a list of websites that contains the word or the phrase that we are searching. We also have Wikipedia, a more descriptive source for students to learn everything about a topic they search. Using Google, Wikipedia, or many other search engines and websites, anyone could just type a word or a phrase that they want to learn and click search. It makes us wonder, will there still be schools and teachers in the future where we can learn things just by pressing a few buttons?

The answer is yes, and no. Yes, because teachers and schools will forever be needed. A teacher can be whoever, and a teacher can also be in whatever form, and time will not change that. While schools are always needed as a place for kids to learn from each other, join organizations, and interact. Time will never change that either. No, because schools and teachers in the future may not be the same type as the schools and teachers we have now. For instance, with the growth of technology, a child does not have to leave home to go to school. He or she can just sit in front of a monitor and log in the internet to find a teacher that could come from the opposite side of the world. Although this system won’t give you the same feeling as actually going to a school -like the ability to play football with your friends and actually meeting them- but this system also means no boundaries. You can have a teacher from China, be best friends with a girl from America, or share ideas with a boy from Russia. Teachers can also be in the form of a machine, for example, a robot.

The point is, technology may always grow, and the methods of learning and teaching may evolve, but there will always be teachers and schools, although they may not have the same form of teachers and schools as we have now.

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By: Nadia Rahmadiani Nugrahadi Group 3 from XE