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