WILL TEACHERS BE REPLACED BY COMPUTERS IN THE FUTURE?

未來老師會被計算機所取代嗎？

In education, the computer is playing an increasingly important role, so some people assume that teachers will be replaced by computers one day. However, I believe that computers will never be able to replace teachers.

在教育中，計算機起著越來越重要的作用，所以有些人認為總有一天教師將被電腦取代。然而，我認為計算機永遠不能取代教師。

Firstly, the computer can never fulfill teacher’s role in nourishing the human mind and spirit. Education is more a process of instruction students emotionally and psychologically than passing on knowledge mechanically. It is widely acknowledged that successful education is always based on a large amount of investment of love and concern. Students need teachers' love while in difficulty, for teachers' encouragement can help them gain confidence. No wonder the famous blind educator and writer Helen Keller once said, "My teacher's love illuminates my dark life and enables me to find my direction." But how could students get all of these from an inanimate死氣沉沉的, 沒生命的 machine even if all the information of the world could be stored in it?

首先，在滋養人的心靈和精神方面，計算機不能滿足教師的角色。教育不僅僅是機械的傳授知識更是一個指導學生情緒和心理的過程。人們普遍認為成功的教育都是基于大量愛與關懷的投入。在面對困難的時候學生需要教師的愛，因為教師的鼓勵能幫助他們獲得信心。難怪著名盲人教育家和作家海倫凱勒曾說，“我老師的愛照亮了我黑暗的生活，使我找到我的方向。”但學生怎么可能從一個沒生命的機器中獲得（愛與關懷），即使它可以存儲世界上所有的信息？

Another demanding task computers cannot perform is that they cannot teach students according to their individual gifts. A competent有能力的, 勝任的 teacher is always good at finding out students' shining points. For example, when Gauss高斯 was a child, his teacher realized he had a special talent in mathematics and helped him exploit his potential and thus set him to the way of tremendous success in mathematics. This work, of course, is beyond any computer's ability. Besides, teachers can adjust their teaching to different students of different characteristics. Students' characteristics are so diversified 形形色色的 that computers can hardly be programmed to meet this requirement.

另一項計算機不能完成的艱巨任務是它們不能根據學生的個人資質來教學生。一個稱職的老師總能發現學生的閃光點。例如，當高斯還是個孩子的時候，他的老師發現他在數學上有特殊才能，并幫助他開發他的潛力，從而使他在數學上取得了巨大的成功。當然這項工作是超越任何計算機能力的。此外，教師可以根據不同學生的特點來調整自己的教學方式。學生的特點是如此多元化的以至于計算機難以用編程來滿足這一要求。

In conclusion, no matter how advanced computers will be in future, education still has to be fulfilled by teachers. The teacher is able to be fully aware of students' needs and offer them what they really want accordingly while the computer is merely a tool manipulated(熟練地)操作 by human beings to assist the fulfillment of such tasks.

總之，在未來無論電腦有多么的先進，教育還得依靠于教師。教師能充分了解學生的需要并為他們提供他們真正需要的，然而，相應的電腦只是一個被人類熟練操作來協助完成這些任務的工具。