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Sebastian D

Television is a good educator

 

These days almost everyone spends at least two hours watching television, so much so that it has become a part of our lives. But in my opinion TV is good as an informer or an entertainer, not as an educator.

 

In the first place, you never know if what you have seen is true or it has been invented, so you can only trust in the guilty of the program, so it is not the same to watch Discovery channel or to watch a movie.

 

Apart from this, I strongly believe that you can not learn from watching TV, as it is not the same as going to school, for example you are not able to ask questions or do homework, or specially have a discussion with the professor.

 

It is argued that there are some programmees which offer a kind of learning, such as History Channel, Discovery Channel or Animal Planet, but there are a lot of programmes which give the wrong idea of how things are.

 

In conclusion, I think that even though some programmes are educational, it is impossible to change the education that school brings