Can computers substitute for teachers?

A computer increases a person's efficiency. It may be an intelligent brain in Mathematics or Science, analysis or editing. But it is still machine. It is true that the computer heralded technological advancement but "can the computer manage the job of educating the world's future generations when they are at a tender stage?

A teacher educates a student's mind as well as his heart and teaches him the lessons of life. This a computer cannot do for it is not a living thing and does not have a heart. Teachers guide students and mould their future with a personal touch.

Computers may be able to do the job of a clerk, accountant or cashier but there is nothing like a human on the job, computers do well as a subject in school but as a teacher.

Bones, heart and soul is definitely better than microchips, wires circuits and plugs. I would never trade my teachers for a stack of microchips assembled into a sophisticated plastic mould.

L. SHIBI, XI B

SIR M. VENKATASUBBA RAO MATRIC H.S.SCHOOL, CHENNAI

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