There is nothing that an uneducated person can teach an educated person

TOEFL Essay 16 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

 

There is nothing that an uneducated person can teach an educated person.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

Model Answer:

Knowledge is a universal thing. It is not limited to the pages of textbooks or the books of general knowledge. Rather the sources of knowledge are vast and are found everywhere. In fact, there are many great philosophers, scientists, artists and enlightened people we can find in the history who did not have formal educations and yet they have passed their great knowledge to others and have made the world a better place to live in. I completely disagree that an uneducated person, who has no academic certificate, cannot teach an educated person.

But at times there are some misconceptions that knowledge could be found on books and only the educated people could teach. In fact, the idea is entirely wrong. Knowledge or education is not the issue to be taught only by the educated people. One can learn many unknown issues from an individual having less or no education too. A good number of debates have been created to prove it.

Learning cannot be accepted only from the learned teachers or educated people. It could also be achieved from the people of every stratum regardless of their academic status. Education is the way to be illuminated. It allows people to take the right decision to lead their life. It helps to pick the right from the wrong. It broadens the outlook. So, it is achievable from everyone, older or younger, educated or uneducated, rich or poor. For example, I have learned swimming and art from a relative who was uneducated in terms of formal education. Many values and moralities he has passed to others and because of that he was a respected man in our area. For instance, if someone, highly educated, wants to learn driving, then s/ he need to go to a driving school. But in most of the cases, the driving school staffs are actually less educated comparing the person they are teaching how to drive a car. Learning to drive a car is the application of earned knowledge from the training staffs in the daily life to make it more comfortable. Driving is also a form of education and they are learning the knowledge from someone less educated.

Further, if you want to learn cooking, you are to admit yourself at any restaurant or any catering institute for your first-hand experience. There you will be taught how to prepare foods, what temperature should be maintained, how long you have to cook, what ingredients to be used for specific kinds of cuisine, what to do to make the foods tastier and more other issues. But have you ever noticed your teacher who is teaching you to cook? Have you ever asked about his/ her academic skills? The answer is - no. You have never asked about the issue as you have not considered so. They are teaching you to cook and you are satisfied with learning the right ways to prepare foods. The academic status of the teachers is not considerable. But if you ever ask about the academic status, you will find that they are less educated or at times may have no education at all.   

Sometimes the people with less or no education have more knowledge and experience that we cannot gain those by reading books only. They become the pool of knowledge and have been surviving with the application of knowledge in their everyday life. So, if we have the misconception that we will get the education or learn something from only the educated individuals, we will be wrong.

We have to be more benevolent and respect all the people regardless the academic criterion. We truly will be educated when we could be able to learn anything from anyone with paying due respect.


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