Issue Essay- Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.

Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.

Educational institutions play vital role in success of students. They contribute their level best to provide quality education. I strongly agree with the statement that educational institutions have a responsibility to convince students for not pursuing field in which they are unlikely to succeed for following reasons.

To begin with, teacher can better judge a student based on the interaction between teacher and student, including classroom, library, group interaction and exams time etc. The teacher can help student that in which field it is more likely to succeed and in which field it will be unlikely. Because teacher will not decide blindly, teacher can understand student skills in specific field and will have better knowledge about long term scope of that specific field. For example when I asked my teacher to give me suggestion regarding which field I should select for research, he suggested me research on cancer, though he himself working on different domain. After his suggestion I searched on that specific field and I found this specific field is leading while attracting researchers of the whole world.

Secondly sometimes students are good in different subjects but they are confused which subject they have to choose. Teachers give suggestions based on their experience, future scope and student capacity to carry on in that specific field.

Some people argue that it is only responsibility of student to select his field based on interest and they give and they give Albert Einstein example.  I think that all cannot be like Einstein, there are very few examples of this, so based on few examples we cannot recommend that to all students.  I do believe that while taking decisions teachers must consider what is interest and passion of student, In addition they should not discourage students like you cannot perform well in this subject. They should rather convince student that this field more suits you and more likely you will be succeed.

Conclusively based on student interest and skill it is responsibility of teacher to persuade him toward field in which he can excel and become successful.

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