Profanity Should Not Be Taught In Schools Essay

Profanity roams the world at different degrees in different places and situations. Under college policy, professors are allowed to use profane words; however, there should be limitations as to how far it should be used. Professors using profanity should be limited to use it in aiding to provide clarity to ideas, to help keep the class engaging, while simultaneously prioritizing their students’ comfortability and learning experience. Professors should be allowed to use profanity in their classes strictly as a teaching instrument. A reason to allow professors to use profanity as a teaching instrument is because it has benefits to both the student and the professor. In a study, experts found that “swearing directed at course content and to emphasize /elaborate, and gain …show more content…
A professor argues that “[in college,] where students need to understand that curbing the colorful language is even more important now they are entering adulthood: there will be times ahead when circumstances, settings and situations require careful control of what comes out of their mouths” (O’connor 1). It is true that the use of profanity needs to be controlled under certain situations in adulthood, college level students should then be able to control when they utter profanities. However, I advocate for college professors who use profanities only as a teaching tool, and these professors would still be great role models because they only utter profanities under appropriate situations. And as how it would be in certain situations in adulthood, there should be repercussions to the blatant use of profanities. Therefore, college professors who are still exemplifying valid adult behavior through controlled use of profanity are still being valid role models for their