School should emphasize on Character Development over Academic Excellence

School should emphasize on Character Development over Academic Excellence

I disagree that schools should emphasize on character development over academic excellence. This is because in the current society, academic excellence is more important in helping us to get a good job in future, character development should be taught at home and school teachers are specialized in helping us achieve academic excellence and not character development.

Firstly, I feel that academic excellence is more important in helping us to get good jobs in future as compared. In today's society, when we are looking for jobs, the first thing most employers look at is our past qualifications and achievements, not our character. Therefore, it is very important that schools focus on our academic excellence in order to make sure that we have higher chances of getting a good job in future. My parents and teachers always tell me that if two people were to apply for the same job, naturally the employer would choose the person who has better qualifications and achievements. This is one reason why I feel that schools should emphasize on academic excellence over character development.

The second reason why I feel that schools should emphasize on academic excellence is because the job of character development should be done at home, by the parents. Parents have the responsibility of teaching their children moral values, so that teachers can focus fully on academics in school. Nowadays, many parents are doing the job of character development at home, teaching their children principles of how to be a good person, because they hope that this will allow the school to emphasize on academic excellence rather than spending time on character development.

Lastly, school teachers are specialized in helping us achieve academic excellence and not character development. An example would be my Maths teacher, Mr Ho Ho Sing Philips. He is specialized in teaching us Maths, and not in character development. Therefore, we should allow our specialized teachers to maximize time to educate us more about their subjects, instead of having to fork out time to develop our character.

However, of course character development is also important and we cannot neglect it. Otherwise, when we go out to the society in the future, we will not be able to survive. Therefore, we should also place importance in our character development.

In conclusion, because of the above 3 reasons, I feel that schools should emphasize on academic excellence over character development.