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The statement recommends that teaching the positive implications and ignoring the

negative ones is the most appropriate way of teaching.Generally, it is believed


that being positive enhances one's view of the world as a happy and peaceful
place.But sadly, it has little truth because in the real world scenario both the
negative and positive sides co-exist.Thus, there are enough reasons to refute this
deceitful claim.

First of all, praising all the good actions and ignoring the rest is a quite biased
point of view.To illustrate this reason, lets consider the modernization of a rural
or tribal area.In this case, consider the establishment of a garment and textile
factory.This may provide considerable employment opportunities to the locals and
might also result in the economical,educational,medical and constructional
development.But it can also affect the local knitting and handicraft businesses
adversely and in the long term may monopolize the industry.Further the factory may
dispose the chemical waste in the nearby barren lands or waters which results into
pollution.Thus, to ignore such severe negative aspects of any action is analogous
to living a life in fantasy world.

Futhermore, by teaching someone only one side of the coin is commensurate to mis-
guiding the person.If one's is not revealing both sides of the coin, then it is
similiar to the act of hiding something in fear.Considering the example of a parent
teaching his/her child to eat meat and the nutrient values it contains.Now, the
parents are not depicting the whole story as from where does the meat comes,
ignoring the cruel works of killing and skinning a chicken.This actions imply that
even the parents are not able to justify themselves these violent and unhuman
acts.So, they tend to teach only the positive sides of the non-vegetarian diet and
not the negative source of it.

In addition,some of the revolutionizing inventions can serve as an exemplar to


oppose this claim.Invention of plastic can be seen as a revolutionary invention
gifted to the human world.Now, teaching about the applications and the advantages
that plastic has summoned can be an ever-lasting job to do.But,in the long term as
we can see that plastics has became the crucial reason behind pollution.The main
reason being the non-degradable and durability of the plastics which were
considered the main postive features of plastic during its invention.

Admittedly, there are some circumstances where to teach the negative prospects is
inappropriate.For example, to teach a young child about the violence and decimation
in the World War 2 might terrify the child and so to avoid that, one might wish to
ignore these horrible facts while teaching.Another example could be an example of a
England's education board, which might alter the facts in their subject history in
order to refrain the students from knowing that how their precedents practised acts
of racism and slavery in the Black/Brown colored countries.

Conclusively, to ignore the negative actions is not the best way, in fact not even
a considerable way of teaching.One should must be acknowledged about both negative-
positive actions and virtues.In order to gain more indepth knowledge about this
topic, one can refer the theory presented by Yin-Yang about the Circle.

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