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Although it’s common sense that teachers these days are more respected than in the past, as far as I am concerned, such an assumption is not the reality at all.

The most important reason lies in improved living standards, which have greatly reduced the cost of education, which contributes to lower status of teachers. A long time ago, keeping humans from starvation was once a challenge for a household. In such circumstances, education was expensive and rare. Nowadays, most children have cheap and abundant access to teachers, both in a public way and in a private way. They may study online, take after-school courses, participate in summer camps, and so on. Hence, with such availability of teaching, teachers are not the venerable figure we value. Take the telephone as an example, when it first came out, it was so expensive that most people could hardly get one. And people were bound to respect a person who had a phone. But as telephones became cheap, today everyone has a phone. Needless to say, you will not look up to someone for their phone. To sum up, since education is inexpensive in the current world, teachers are not so valued as they were in the past.

Furthermore, teachers are not necessary for gaining knowledge, so they are not valued much these days. In the past, there were few optional ways for learning, and even books were rare and costly. At that time, teachers are one of the most critical and possible access toward knowledge. As a result, people appreciated teachers for their intelligence. On the contrary, in the modern society, we can find knowledge everywhere, such as from television, the Internet, books, and so on. Meanwhile, can you find a teacher with more knowledge than the Internet? Use me for an example. Whenever I have doubts on a subject, I would instinctively google it on the Internet, but not contact my teachers. Thus, with the variety of access to knowledge, teachers have become less appreciated status these days.

In all, the improvement in living standards have lowered the cost of teaching while the development of technology has diversified our ways of gaining knowledge. As a result, teachers gained less appreciation now than they did in the past.

Although television advertising is so common that no one would go against it. However, in my opinion, for children as young as two to five years old, television advertising is better forbidden than regulated. When discussing television advertising in this age group, we should consider children first rather than product companies.

Firstly, television advertisement is often misleading. Thus, it may cause young children or their parents to purchase unsuitable products. Undoubtedly, children age two to five is immature in every possible way, most salient for this topic, in their cognitive abilities, such as differentiation and inferential deduction. That is to say, children this age tend to focus on a single dimension of a product, which is exactly what television advertising displays. Since rational decision making normally requires the consideration of multiple aspects, television advertising only worsens their purchase decision,

Take my nephew for an example. Every time he watches the cartoon, Peppa Pig, some advertisement about toys will come onto the screen and he will always ask for them. And now, fluffy toys occupy half of his room. This is not only unnecessary, but burdens house cleaning.

Moreover, television advertising may convey some inappropriate ideas and beliefs, and harm children’s behavior development. As you know, products are not the only thing in the television advertisement, advertising often comes with imaginary adventure or challenges. But the little babies do not have the ability to critically analyze these activities, and are likely to imitate them.

For instance, some news a few years ago reported the terrible influence of a cartoon. After watching the cartoon about wolves and sheep, in which some sheep tied the wolf in a tree and decided to burn them, small kids tried to do some imitation, Eventually, the child who acted as the wolf was severely burned. Though this is not a case on television advertisement, yet it indicates television advertisement may bring similar harm.

In conclusion, television advertising should not be allowed in the age group of two to five.