If your teacher says something incorrect in a class, what will you do? 1. Interrupt your teacher right away 2. Keep silent 3. Correct your teacher after class.
In the old times, school teaching is teacher-oriented. Teachers prepare the lectures and tutorial works, then present them to students and instill them all into students. Then when a teacher says something wrong, nobody dare to correct the teacher in the class. However, school teaching is becoming more student-oriented, which means students' ideas are more important in a class instead of the teachers'. In this sense, it is reasonable and essential for students to correct the teacher right in the class. This essay will explore the importance of correct the teacher right away in class.
A single fault not being corrected may lead to severe consequence.
I mean, every tiny piece of knowledge is linked to one or many other pieces. It won't exist by its own. Once you keep silent, what would you do when you find anything else the teacher says is incorrect? Besides, if I choose not to mention about the wrong information, it would be probably that everyone else in my class will not tell the teacher it since everyone is human. How pitiful it is that I keep in mind what is wrong just because others did not correct our teacher.
A single fault being corrected late may still lead to bad influence.
For example, I talk about the wrong piece of information during my teacher's office hour. Before that time, this specific knowledge may be arranged in the assignment right after the class. At this time, all of the students but me would just finish the assignments, analyzing the wrong knowledge. What's worse, some other pieces of information may be wrong due to this previous one. In this case, my teacher would very probably show the students the right one in the next class. What if he/ she forgets about it?
It is always beneficial for students to correct the teacher right in the class.
First, everyone including the teacher would be informed that what is exactly the right content about this realm of knowledge. Maybe it is quite important for the teacher to explain why it was mistaken in case someone else would misunderstand it again. Maybe it is so meaningful and interesting a question that everyone should heed it. It is the duty and a must for the teacher to articulate the question then. Or students can discuss with each other and the teacher after class.
Second, if it is me that make the mistake, not the teacher, then I would listen to teacher without restlessness during the rest of the lesson.
Third, someone may say that it is not courteous to interrupt the teacher right in the class. But I believe that it is not the correction itself of mistake disrespectful, but the way you correct it. One should never be shameful correcting the teacher in class.
People make mistakes. It is so common and necessary that people correct each other at the right time as well as in the right ways.
