Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect. In your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?

TOEFL Writing Topic: Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect. In your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?

•Interrupt and correct the mistake right away.
•Wait until the class or meeting is over and the people are gone, and then talk to the teacher or meeting leader.
•Say nothing.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Most of the times, when in a classroom or meeting, the leader or the teacher heading the group can make mistakes. According to me, when such a situation occurs the best thing to do is correct their mistake right away and believe this because of two main reasons.

To begin with, it is possible that the faculty or the leader made blunder accidentally. For example, a teacher is teaching some english course and writes a wrong spelling of a word on the board. One could easily think that it would be humiliating for the teacher if one redressed her mistake in front of the whole class. But if no one rectifies the blunder made, then the students who actually don’t know the proper spelling of the said word might commit the same blunder further ahead. Even though the faculty didn’t mean to teach incorrectly but in the end, her students received faulty knowledge. In such cases, it is important to point out these anomalies in order to prevent others from committing the same mistake.

Additionally, even if the mistake done isn’t incidental then it is possible that the professor or the meeting head doesn’t realize that they have made a mistake. Let us say that a meeting head is conducting a meeting about annual statistics of his company and further decisions to be made are contingent on the same. Actually, the final numbers signify that the firm is not doing well but the meeting head did not weigh the problem’s intensity properly. This could lead to making of decisions which won’t be helpful for the firm. If someone would have pointed out the meeting head’s ignorance or misjudgement, the firm wouldn’t had paid the cost of wrong judgement. Also, the meeting’s head would have become more deliberate about committing such mistakes in future.

In conclusion, I would say that rectifying someone’s mistake in any situation is helpful for both the one making the mistake and the ones depending upon the former.