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18) Some people think that they can learn better by themselves than with a teacher. 
Others think that it is always better to have a teacher. Which do you prefer? Use specific 
reasons to develop your essay. 
 
(a)

I support the view that teachers should be a part of the learning process. Below are 
several beneficial reasons for which I feel that teachers are needed in while learning. 
Below are also some of the problems that come up without their presence. 
Primarily teachers are there for guidance in a particular field or subject. They give 
you a systematic and better way to approach a subject. A teacher normally teaches a 
subject in which he or she has expertise. Hence that person has made a study of the subject 
and can guide you in order to help you approach the subject in a better way. This guidance 
may be in the form of giving you names of reference books or giving you notes. Without a 
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teacher it would be extremely cumbersome to go through large libraries for a certain topic. 
Besides this the teacher could provide you help with any sort of problem that you come 
across while studying. The teacher could provide you strategies that help you solve a 
problem. Without a teacher, this problem would take up a lot of your valuable time or 
remain unsolved. Teachers can also point out when you are going wrong. They point out 
our mistakes and suggest ways for us to correct them. 
In the end it does depend on the individual person to finally getting down to learn a 
subject. The actual studying has to be done by the individual. But the learning process can 
be made much simpler with the proper and continuous guidance of teachers. Hence it 
betters to learn with the help of a teacher rather than learning by you. 
(B) Depending upon their abilities and demands of the subject people plan to study, 
different people have different ideas about the need of teachers.
Some people think that they can learn better with the help of books and computers. 
Certainly, modern technology has made our lives easier in every aspect. Today, computers 
have almost eliminated the need of most paperback books. Students can get the study 
materials over the Internet now. But in my opinion, no matter how advance the 
technologies may become, the need of a good teacher can't ever be over-stated. 
Whenever we are reading a new topic or new subject, questions regarding that topic start 
to appear in our minds. We need someone to answer them all and tell us more about them. 
At those moments, we actually need a concerned teacher who can help us by answer those 
questions based upon his own experiences.
In fact, a teacher can be a person who knows things better than us. For example, in my 
opinion parents are the best teachers throughout our lives. They teach us from taking the 
first steps to good manners, learning lessons from life to the accumulation of knowledge. 
No one can deny their important part in building our characters. 
In old times of kingdoms, royalties were provided with the best teachers of their times to 
make them expert in every field of life. Even today, teachers, at home teach many 
intelligent students. 
What could be a good example of the need of a teacher that God almighty sent his 
prophets to teach people about his teachings? Prophets were the selected persons from 
common people to guide people towards righteousness.