Can the machine ever replace the teacher?
No, it cannot. As technology advances, new discoveries are made and machines such as robots become more and more sophisticated, able to express feelings etc. These robots have access to the internet and very accurate and advanced information. They can be described as encyclopaedias, able to provide information in a second. However, the robot or machine can never replace the teacher.
A teacher can never be replaced by the machine, at least not any time soon. Things like morals are in the grey area. For example, is it morally right to have an abortion? Some people may say that there is nothing wrong with it, as the foetus cannot feel a thing. Others simply do not agree. They feel that it is not right to end a life. Some classify it as murder. Different individuals have different viewpoints on issues like this. A machine runs on a program, programmed by a programmer. Therefore, viewpoints that the machine is programmed to support are similar to that of the programmer.
Another reason why a teacher can never be replaced is because a teacher’s role is not solely to mark essays produced by a student, nor is it solely to give advice to students. I feel that a good teacher is one that can maintain a human relationship with a student, and not a I teach you learn kind of relationship. There must be some form of understanding. A teacher must also be able to cater to every individual’s needs, teaching lessons in ways which benefits every individual. Of course this is not possible for a human teacher, but it would be even more impossible with the current technology for machines to be capable of doing so either.
Lastly, it is way too expensive to replace every teacher with machines. It would cost way too much, and would also worsen global warming.
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