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Melinda Shroeder

English 101

11/21/16

Persuasive Essay Outline 1 of 2
Who Contributes More to Society? Teachers, or Doctors?

    Have you ever had stitches? Been given a prescription for antibiotics? A major surgery? Even just a routine check-up? Maybe even a sports physical? The point is, just about everyone has been to a doctor at some point. Without them, how would we know if we’re healthy or if there’s something wrong? Who would fix us when we’re broken? Doctors take care of the general public and do a great service to the world. Keeping us alive.

     But how do we get our doctors? Who trains them, shows them the way so that they don’t kill all their patients? Without teachers, would we even have doctors? Where would anyone be if no one showed us what we needed to do? In school, we rely on our teachers to show us how to make it in life, give us what we need to make good choices in the real world. Without teachers, how would we learn anything?

    Who truly contributes more to society? Does one or the other really do more for the world? Think about this; doctors save people’s lives. They find new ways every day to combat the injuries and diseases we sustain more often than anyone would like. But who gives them the knowledge to do these things?

  From an early age, we are sent to school. Our teachers show us everything we know from how to read and write to learning how to become what we want for our lives. “Each profession occupies a specific niche in society — doctors heal, engineers design and bankers handle our money. Teaching, however, stands out as a subsumptive entity.” (Indian Express, New Delhi) Without teachers, we would have nothing else. Even after high school, when we choose a life career, it is teachers that show us how to do that.

    That’s not to say that doctors aren’t a huge part of our society, because they are. We rely on doctors to help us when we’re sick, or to fix us when we’re broken. Without them many of us would die from things that we don’t think twice about because we know that we can get help.

    Over all, the point is, neither profession is more important than the other. Each one is important in a different way. Sometimes we may not notice that they’re there, but we would notice if they weren’t. We rely on both for different reasons and it would be unfair to say that one is more important than the other.

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