What Is Harmful And Harmful Truth?

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What is called truth must contain its own meaning and is worthwhile to exist. Painful or dangerous truth can be distinguished into two types: one of them is those truth judged by the society which contain bad or passive meanings itself while another kind of truth doesn’t define to be negative but may cause pain or danger when people heard others revealing about it. As for teachers, their responsibility is not only teaching students the basic academic knowledge from books, but also need to pay attention to their mental and psychological development and try to build up a healthy and harmonious environment for students to grow up. However, we cannot avoid danger and difficulties along the way when children growing to maturity. Aiming at finding the best way for children to grow up, many people start to question about the things teachers should teach and doubt whether teachers should reveal some painful truth or not. But I think it depends on what kind of truth …show more content…

In my opinion, I encourage teachers to tell the objective truth contain bad meanings and explain to students what is right or wrong, this will provide opportunities for students to get in touch with the diverse and complicate society earlier. Focus on the long term growth, besides the academic knowledge, mental development and social skills are also important in students’ life. However, for the truth can be judged subjectively, it is not necessary to tell students those truth too early because it may cause negative effects. Students will understand them individually when they get their own experiences. Above all, it is significant to highlight that the aim of revealing truth to students is help them to understand the world and reality better, so what teachers are going to do should focus on how to minimise the negative influences and bring as many benefits as possible to every student’s

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