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Is education being influenced by personal feelings on the part of the educators?
Education, in the pure sense, is the gaining of knowledge, unbiased by human emotion or moral. It is truth in the broadest sense of the term; it is the giving of facts which are completely without bias or opinion.
In comparison, personal feeling is the encroachment of personal attitudes which distort the real image of a situation or place of value on an event without giving the observer a chance to derive his own opinion through analysis of the situation.
In the modern connotation, each term has a certain amount of value within the field of education. Personal opinion is employed by designating a value to an event
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beforehand so that one may have a chance to use the personalized evaluation as a basis for analyzing a larger problem. Everyone uses personal opinion in this, its weakest and yet most advantageous, form.
But, in some cases, personal opinion tends to leave a student with an incomplete idea and misunderstanding of the reasons for an opinion. Other cases, however, give students values to live their lives by: a valuable point in favor if used correctly.
Education as a whole is given not by machines but by people. Also, it is not given by one person alone; hence, one may get varying views on any subject. Therefore, one may derive his own opinions from the varying ones, and thereby receive as liberal and objective an education as one allows himself.
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