Journalism is more Challenging than Teaching (Against) ritabammykode@yahoo.

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Good Morning Madam, Chairperson, distinguished time keeper, members of the proposition and members of the opposition, co-debaters, ladies and gentlemen.

It is my humble honour to stand before you at this time to set in contrast the view that Journalism is more challenging than Teaching. In order to drive my points home, ladies and gentlemen, let us make an exploration of Journalism and Teaching. According to the Encarta Dictionary, Journalism is the profession of gathering, editing, and publishing news reports and related articles for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio. Teaching is a practice of being a teacher which connotes bringing understanding of something to somebody, especially through an experience. There are a lot to speak about on the challenges of both professions; however for the purpose of this debate, I have limited myself to the following points. Teachers face some life threatening and very challenging situations like: I. Social discrimination: What should have been a highly respected profession is belittled in our society. Teacher are grouped under the societal third class. A lot of students have the perspective that Teaching is meant for lazy and unserious individuals. Consequently, threading down on the teachers and their values in our society, while Journalists have a good social status, even allowed to associate with those in the high Offices. A typical example are Nigerian and Benin society, where teachers are paid less and offered no governmental high position. 2. Parental and Children Assault: It is not easy to tame children from the same parents even worse from different parents, journalists have no direct contacts with children and their parents, and therefore they are free from insults and abuses that teachers experience sometimes from their profession.

3. The future of our nation depends on what teachers pass on to our children, you see ladies and gentlemen, students spend more time with teachers in the schools more than they do with their immediate parents. The president of America, Barrack Obama was once taught by a teacher, Goodluck Jonathan passed through teachers, Yayi Boni or Yani Boni did the same...all of us here are products of information, we can do without Journalism but we cannot afford a world without teachers. This makes teaching more challenging than journalism.

4. How does Journalists get their information? By observing what happens around us and report to us whereas teachers maker researches and update their knowledge in order to follow the trend of the time. Teacher are expected to go extra miles to get knowledge, this makes their profession more tedious than the other, Journalism.

5. Journalism is meant to feed our intellectual thirst whereas teaching furnishes our intellect and shapes our moral life....this makes teaching more challenging than journalism. The society expects teachers to make extra efforts so that the moral decadence in our society would be minimized. Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to ask my co-debaters on the other wing, who proposes that Journalism is more challenging than Teaching. Why have we gathered here today? If there were no teachers in both schools, can journalists bring us to this point today, who makes a journalist? Therefore I say to all the teachers here, we understand your situation, we love you all, keep making our world..BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN WITH THE POINTS aforementioned ABOVE THAT YOUR PROFESSION IS MORE CHALLENGING THAN JOURNALISM!!!