GRE Issue Essay: The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

I agree with the above statement that the best way to teach is to praise positive actions; however ignoring the negative action is not a good approach for personal growth of many of the people around.

Whether they are pupil at school, kids at home, or the employees in any organization, positive actions must be appreciated while keeping notice of the negative deeds. At home when parents ignore the negative actions of kids they get worst by practicing negative things again and again. For example if a kid steals things of her friends or anywhere, and knowing the fact parents ignore their actions. Then they would keep on practicing it if parents ignore and a day will come they will be committing robbery at a large scale. For this reason it is essential to take notice of the negative actions of the kids and to stop them from doing it. Alternatively if parents could teach them and avoid them from practicing negative things kids would not practice them over again.

Praising people for their good works gives them motivation, either it would be among co workers or the students. Highlighting negative actions in front of many other people may hurt them therefore it is a better option to teach them individually and having a face to face conversation.

I have personal experience that when I was at school I was very shy and I did not use to participate in class discussions because I had no command over English language neither Urdu. I assume that was one of the negative aspects of my personality which remained with me for a long period of time; these characteristics were also ignored by my teacher to large extent too. Teacher used to have very thorough discussions in class with the more efficient students however she did not take notice of the others. Its ultimate impact on me was that I was high discouraged and it took me many years to come over it and start over things again.

Thus in any aspect of life positive actions must be appreciated, along with that negative actions must also be taken into consideration.