Why Is It Important To Judge A Book By Its Cover

What I Believe I believe in not judging a book by its cover. I believe that first minute assessments are dangerous to those who they are made about. I am a student so I am always meeting new people and it is important to keep an open mind until you truly know someone. It is through the ability to not judge a book by its cover that one is able to truly understand and form opinions about the people around them.

When I think about not judging a book by its cover, I think about school. In school, it is common for one to get judged and labeled within the first few moments of someone seeing them, even if it was solely based on what that person was wearing that particular day. People can also be labeled by others without even having to say a word. I have witnessed this behavior at Ponax before; someone was labeled negatively and within the first day it became common-thought among most of the students. Furthermore, no one even knew or talked to this individual yet they were looked down upon and treated worse than a stranger should be. And one trying to persevere through …show more content…
When I was younger, during school, I would notice someone doing something that I thought was absurd or foolish, it was usually when people got an answer wrong either in class or on a test. I would label them as unintelligent, without actually even knowing how smart they were. My whole opinion was based on one question they answered incorrectly. I was talking to one of my teachers, we were joking around when I mentioned the student and how they missed a simple question. When my teacher hears this he stopped laughing and asked me if I knew the kid outside of school and what his life was like. It turns out that the aforementioned student had had trouble with the law in the past, and how that might have affected his ability to focus in