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I'm not sure that I'm lucky enough to get a response, but in any case, it doesn't hurt if I post my writing here: “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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position. The statement claiming that the best teaching method is to appreciate positive acts and ignore negative ones relies on the efficacy of positive thinking: that the learner will be encouraged and motivated if their strong points are appreciated by the instructor. While there is some truth in the recommendation, this too strong claim ignores the importance of learning from mistakes. Before explaining why the statement in this absolute form can’t hold true, let me begin by mentioning some merits of the recommendation, The traditional method of teaching focused on the weaknesses and negative actions of the learner, as tough the positive ones were taken for granted: In other words, the student was supposed to be do things perfectly. Accordingly, punishment, rather than reward, was the main tool to correct the mistakes. This made learning a painful and unpleasant experience, since the student should always wait for being scolded and punished for their possible negative acts. In contrast to this method, the statement invites us to praise the students for what she does well, and instead, forget the mistakes. This would make learning a pleasant experience, as in contrary to the other method, students can always expect praises and rewards. It’s easy to see that this kind of teaching can be especially beneficial in specific cases: for example, consider a shy student that is not confident about her abilities: praises based on her real positive acts can give her back the confidence she lacks, while not mentioning her problems can help her stop her habitual negative thinking. However, there are serious problems with the recommendation, since while it’s essential to emphasize the positive side, it’s equally important to not forget the negative side. For one thing, the main aim of teaching is to help students to improve. Thus they need to know and work on their problems and weaknesses. In fact, sooner or later, when they are to utilize what they learnt in real life, they will find out their problems. But then, it’s much more difficult to change those habits that have been unnoticed for years: Consider a young person looking for a job: How can she cope with the problems of the world of business, if she wasn’t been told and helped with weaknesses by her teachers before? The world is too cruel to give her many chances to correct herself. Secondly, in some respect, acknowledging your negative acts can be more helpful than being appreciated for your positive one. It is so, since negative acts can reveal some essential weaknesses in us, so knowing and correcting them can help the student to prevent similar problems in the future. For example, if a student’s performance in exams is below her real knowledge, it might show that she has some problems coping with pressure. Thus, first acknowledging the problem and then finding a plan to resolve it, can help her prevent many more problems likely to happen to her in stressful situations. Thirdly, from the psychological point of view, while it’s important to give student enough confirmation and confidence, it’s as important to not make her have a distorted picture of herself; as tough she does everything perfectly. In fact, just praising someone for what she does well, leads to pseudo-confidence, because, sooner or later, in face of real problems, she will notice that she is not as perfect as she thought, hence the unrealistic image of herself disappears. This means that while praising someone for her good points can help her become confident, ignoring the negative one can even remove the good effects of the justified praise. Overall, the best teaching method would consider both positive and negative acts: How much we need to emphasize on one or another, depends on circumstances: For example, maybe the student is over-confident, so she should be more aware of her problems. Or perhaps, the situation is totally the opposite. The bottomline is that an efficient teaching method should take both sides into consideration, what the traditional method and the statement don’t do.

Hello everyone! This is my first time on this site and also this is my first attempt for GRE essay. I need your comments and editition.Thanks all of you! Issue 235: "Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty—whether to one's friends, to one's school or place of employment, or to any institution—is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force." Everyone knows that loyalty is a virtue, then weather is loyalty a destructive force or a positive force? This is a abstruse question that always makes people confused. I think loyalty is more positive than destructive force basically, but considering some special conditions, it could be a destructive force. Every time, when we talk about loyalty, we first remember the story named "Here comes a wolf". in the story depicts that a herd kid deceit people two time and so third time although his words are truth, people don't believe in him and think he is lying again. Obviously the man who lack of loyalty slowly kills other's faith and respect for him. A person's status in the society, his finding of a good friend, his success and something like that closely associates with loyalty. The friendship what leaves from loyalty is just nominal friendship. Also the family which has deficient loyalty will never earn real happiness. Loyalty is also very important for a company's long time sustaining and developing. There are many companies, they always make some false advertisement and hoax consumers. Finally they not only could sell their false goods continuously, but also even if they produce true goods in next time, people don't like to buy it because of discredit. conversely considering the successful company, we find that the biggest forte of the company is loyalty. They think loyalty as the vigor of company and don't permit anything's happening that dismisses people's faith for them. for example, last year-end ,"TOYOTA"'s some automobiles has appeared a little problem. After this the company published announcement that take back all the automobiles which has problems as original price and expressed their loyalty to public. Certainly the harm because of this action is untold, but the company knows that the harm because of lack faith of consumers to company much more than the previous. Similarly, loyalty plays very critic roles in development of science. Why science has been earning great developments in its every field and affecting our life much more than any others? The original reason could be its loyalty. Because science does not accept any kind of fictions and highly requires loyalty in its field. Except the previous, there are many examples explain that loyalty is positive force in large extent. However, we can't deny that in some special conditions, loyalty really could be destructive force. For example, considering our confident friend who has suffered from immedicable ailment and don't know it, if we tell him about his ailment, this news may bring him great pressure and aggravate his ailment much more. In such, we need lie to him about his ailment. In this condition, loyalty is bad choice for our friend's life. In sum, except some special conditions, loyalty is often a positive rather than destructive force. Lack of loyalty deprives us of our honor, credit, many opportunities and happiness. So we should always learn loyalty.