T4 Blog Writing Prompt #2

" Schools should place more emphasis on character development than academic excellence."

Do you agree or disagree?

I agree that schools should place more emphasis on character development than academic excellence. Although both character development and academic excellence are both important for our future, I feel that character development is more important. Firstly, character development enables us to communicate and socialise better with other people. Secondly, character development helps us to improve on our character. However, academic excellence is also important as it increases our knowledge.

Firstly, character development enables us to communicate and socialise better with other people. With character development, you will learn to treat others with respect and would be able to communicate well with them and not create any misunderstanding or conflicts. This would enable us to have good relationship with others as we would be able to socialise with others more effectively. Thus, character development would benefit us greatly and hence schools should place more emphasis on character development.

Secondly, character development helps us to improve on our character. We would learn many moral values like responsibility and integrity. It would benefit us as we would learn to be more responsible and hence would become more trustworthy and also have integrity and would be honest. Thus, I feel that character development is important as it improves on our character and would make us a better person.

However, academic excellence is also important as it increases our knowledge. The knowledge we learnt would greatly benefit us in the future as it would come in use when we go out to the working world. Also, it would benefit us when we are finding for jobs as most employers would look at our qualifications. Thus, I feel that academic excellence is also important.

In conclusion, I feel that schools should place more emphasis on character development than academic excellence as character development enables us to communicate and socialise better with other people and helps to improve on our character while academic excellence increases our knowledge.