in addition, a more subtle point can be made is that young students are more susceptible to the adverse influence of computers. it is a general principle that juveniles usually lack in the sense of judgment to tell right from wrong. so they may be more likely to be distracted from study by the lure that comes along with computers. therefore, teachers are superior to computers in cultivating students.
although it is all very well to suggest that teachers invariably enjoy the most critical role in fostering young people, let us not lose sight of the dramatic merits brought on by computers. and computers do open the frontiers of the development of education.
nevertheless, i am still inclined to take sides with the opinion that teachers can never give way to computers. as is so often pointed out, the significant thing is to make computers facilitate teachers’ job.
