How Powerful Can A Teacher Be?

Being in an environmental based class, you are faced with many different environmental issues. Whether it is global warming, the effectiveness of recycling, or cutting down rainforest's. It opens your eyes and gives you more than one look on a certain situation and problem. You try and figure out different ways to successfully accomplish each issue in a positive way. In the end, You are now educated on certain issues and ways to successfully fix them.

To me, my class "environmental oral communication" is an excellent example of public education. In the list of Advocacy Modes, Public education is "to influence societal attitudes and behavior"(Cox 228). I believe Public education has the most impact of all the modes of environmental advocacy. Take our class for example, not only does our teacher tell us different issues and problems. He teaches us about the problems and explains to us different ways to attack each problem and come up with ways to solve them. This is the best mode because not only are you told, you are taught. Our teacher John, makes sure we understand thoroughly. Basically, I believe this is the best mode because a teacher can educate us on certain subjects like "going green" and educate us one on one. Rather than trying to get through to someone through a picture. Public education is just the most sensible and can be understood a lot easier. In the end, Public education gets through to a lot more people easier and has a big impact.