Today, one of the most challenging problems for mankind is how to turn the huge population into a valuable, useful human resource, which is exactly the purpose of education. One who receives education not only gets knowledge and skills from their teacher, but is also guided by the teacher to discriminate right from wrong. Some people claim that the best method to teach is to praise whatever is done right and ignore whatever goes wrong. Although the saying have some points, it is still rife with holes and is not logisticall concluded.

From my perspective, I consider encouragement and ignorance not to be the only choice to lead a person to be a better man. More practically speaking, we should evaluate a people's behavior by judging the effect of his or her: how much benefit has an employee brought to the company or how bad does he or she do to diminish the profits? Under different circumstances, we might place different evaluation on him or her.

The foremost question is that how we judge a behavior to be good or bad? For kids, parents concern with their behaviors in front of others. If the children appear to be polite and friendly towards others, their parents must be happier than they are crying or yelling whenever they want to. As for students, they are supposed to be praised if they get good grades at school or participate in activities positively. And for employees in a company, the boss will not be more agreeable than to see them working hard and proposing ideas to help the company to make a profit. In general, favorable acts must serve to bring benefits to others because human beings are social creatures, they appraise each other mainly by how well they do to make a better place. On the contrary, wrongdoers always do things that harm others. Like a lazy employee not focused on his or her own work, he or she chats with friends or surfs the facebook during work.

Once we defined the behaviors, we start to come up with judments. When a student earns a good grade, it is certain that he would get praised not only by teachers and parents, but also by his companions. Indeed, encouragement may confirm one's good behaviors and probably help him continue to do well or even better. However, excessive compliment may result in arrogance and idolence that perplex oneself. He or she might consider himself or herself to be good enough to take a rest. On the other hand, while it is true that everyone needs to be forgiven from their wrong doings, it may, instead, make one feel like being estranged and ingored. In worse case, one might think he is connived and permitted to continue his behaviors. That is why it is not reasonable to just praise the good deeds and ignore the wrong ones.

Additionally, encouragement and ignorance are not the only choices adopted in the given circumstances. One better way is to evaluate a people not only by whether what he or she does are good or bad, but also how good or bad the result of his or her acts are. For example, a students did really bad in his exam, and his teacher, rather than ignores him, encourages him to do better next time. It may be true that if he is left alone, he may feel better for the while, but he may also lose confidence the next time he takes an exam. Because we are frail creatures, we need confirmation and encouragement from others. Contrarily, if an employee succeeded in helping the company to make a conceivable profit, he deserves flowers and critics at the same time. There must be something imperfect that he himself does not know. He needs to be warned by his boss or someone else that this tiny flaw may be fatal next time.

When taken a first look, the argument given by the author makes some sense. Nonetheless, further analysis reveals that such claim which polarize the way the way to teach peopel is groundless. Everyone has the right to make mistakes but he does not deserve to be ignored after making one. We should properly evaluate one's behaviors so that we could help each other to make a better self and a better society.