Computers can replace human teachers

"What I wanted to suggest was that there is no substitute of a good teacher and as far as a 'bad teacher' is concerned; even self study works well with it." Well too bad, as the final round is not the time of any debate to put limitations that keep the range of what you have to defend or support on how you would like it. Round 1 is the round for doing that. Also, self study works really well in Japan and with Robots too. "Really! I solemnly disagree. In fact the bad ones are the rare ones. How many teacher killing student or teacher raping student cases have you seen or read about? I think that good teachers exceed the number of bad teachers by clear majority. Moreover, not all teachers are dumb enough to sacrifice their future just for a futile desire." If you read my closing statements in round 3 you will see I made clear I was not labeling all bad teachers as the ones who rape, strangle, and sell their students pot. what you have been giving long list of all the things a good teacher does that robots cant this entire debate is a standard extremely few live up too. now maybe its unfair for me to take all those who don't quite measure up to 'wipe tears away from frustrated student' to call them outright 'bad'; but if they fail to live up to the core theme of what your attributing to teachers, that theme obviously being that they care about there students, then they should be called a 'bad' teacher. And you'll find that most teachers out there would tell you they have to become such a 'bad' teacher that they don't care if they are to protect themselves from becoming 'burnt out'. In order to have a peace of mine they think 'if the student fails well its there life' I know this cause it's nearly always the start of the semester speech I have gotten from any of my teachers. I suppose its too late to ask but I would be willing to bet Con's 'inspiring teacher' is new at teaching and has yet discovered the need to quite caring so they wont become 'burnt out' early in there career. Audience if your thinking that last bit was a new argument being given when my opponent cant rebut, its not, just clarification of the fact that I did not say all 'bad' teacher's live up to the degree of bad of the ones in the videos. "WHO CARES! that is what you suggest me for a question of international importance! Don't you think that technology is meant for the usage of everyone? I think that it is a right that every country should have." I was not saying who cares about giving robots to all the poor countries, I said who cares as to how its relevant to this debate. the problem of all countries not having the same privileges as others is a compound on that is not connected to teaching with humans to teaching with robots. Second off, it is a non-sequencer that because it is international that it would be important. Anyway the point was the definition of replace in its normal usage can allow for this replacing to take time and not need to be one total and swift action. "Certainly the problem of replacement will add to the already high list of things as you put it contributing to this unrest indirectly if not directly (although I still think that it will bring instability and bitterness in the relationship between various countries" Well, that's quite and unfathomable thought to add unsupported in the last round. and the reason I say that is the very fact that you are selling the case for human teachers over robots before we are logistically even able to make such a change in 1 school shows that their will be no unrest for equality, only stubborn resistance to the change. the countries would have to totally agree the change will be better to feel 'unrest' over the robots. "To this I would just like to provide my readers with a few meanings of the word replace given in some of the dictionaries a) merriam-webster - to restore to a former place or position b)oxford - put back in the same position c)lexicool - put back in the exact position" well round 4 isn't really the place for this addition of definitions but even considering them it doesn't solve the your problem, for it doesn't specify what is being referred to as the 'same' or 'exact'. It of course cant mean the most literal sense 'replace Mr. Graham with a Mr. Graham' for that's the only true way to be totally the 'same'. it of course always refers to a set of qualities with people doesn't it. 'replace with someone who does the same stuff' but how much needs to be the same to count as the same, we know its never meant to go as far as the teachers 'accent' It means the important relevant factor that fits the context of our topic. and here the important relevant factor for 'teachers' as a general whole which cannot be defined by any ones unique style to teaching is the fact that they 'impart knowledge of facts that is in school syllabus' So we can see my usage of 'replacement' has been just fine for this debate an if my opponent wanted to debate over a different kind of replacement Con should have set the debate restrictions up for that in round 1. "Teachers are a vital part of our economy. If we were to replace teachers with computers than millions of jobs would be lost" millions of jobs that anyone with economic sense would give up anyway. teachers are severely underpaid. meanwhile Con has ignored here that millions of jobs would be made installing robots, programming them, and maintaining them, producing them in factories in the first place, producing replacement parts, ect... "Children' s grades would also fall dramatically" No, we've seen in japan that this style of teaching has produced smart kids "as they could easily cheat and get away with it." Con here has failed to mention how all that human teachers do to stop cheating would not continue in robots as well. In fact humans teachers pretty much really on computers now for catching cheaters. My source for that is from a teacher in my family. So in conclusion for the governs.... 1) Your state will benefit from this long-term investment, from no longer paying humans, not to mention the high tech jobs you brought into your state. for the taxpayers.... 2) the kids will only learn what you voted they would learn, this is real control of what your money is being used for. for the parents... 3) the only role model in your child's life will be you, making it easier to raise you kid. also the security of knowing the robot wont sell pot to your kid, strangle, or rape or kidnap them. for the human teachers that would lose there jobs..... 4) you are not being paid enough to sacrifice as much time as you do now, its time you learned the cold reality that you need to get a job with decent pay, you deserve it. for the kids... 5) wouldn't it be awesome to have robot for teacher, just like the one on that cartoon you watch, or close anyway. Plus you can rest assured they wont shred your Yugioh cards when they confiscate them, they really will just hold them until the end of the day.