Some people believe that children in schools should learn how advertisements motivate us to buy things. Do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion. - #IeltsIelytsEssay

Some people believe that children in schools should learn how advertisements motivate us to buy things. Do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion.

 

Ielts Essay _ Should schools teach children about ill-effects of Ads?

The explosive growth in the advertisements targeting the children, who today have an unsupervised access to these through a variety of kid specific media, has prompted some to suggest about schools shouldering the responsibility of teaching kids about how adverts persuade people to buy.

It is quite easy for tender minds to get carried away by ads, parents should supervise and educate their kids about this, but, unfortunately parents do not seem to have time to enlighten the kids about the ill-effects of the misleading content the ads carry. Schools, on other hand, are all equipped with necessary environment and framework, like qualified teaching faculty – that understands the kids, and can use various strategies to impart and foster knowledge; and tools needed to help kids pick up important hints about various domains of paramount importance. 

Moreover, the schools are vested with the responsibility of fostering cognitive skills of the children and helping them grow up as rational adults, so if the kids could learn about this aspect at schools, they would be well versed about making choices judiciously and not falling prey to the luring techniques of the publicity campaigns.

Despite several people vouching for schools taking up the job of teaching young minds to recognize the evil designs behind the adverts, many find it quite amusing. How could a formal tuition, which is overwhelmingly focused on the academic progress of the kids, take up such a domain? Knowledge about the alluring ways of the advertisements can only be had through practical experience and observations, which can never be had in a controlled environment, with limited exposure. This would also affect the quality of the school curriculum adversely. 

In the nutshell, idea of kids learning about luring methods of ads is amusing and quite impractical.