Should children be encouraged to watch TV to learn effectively? With the combination of education and technology, learning from TV is deemed to be an effective way to study. Some people hold the idea that children should learn through watching TV both at home and at school. In my opinion, this could bring about a series of problems for children and would not be as effective as it is expected. Watching TV overtime could distract children’s attention when they are studying at school. They will reflect on the contents on TV, find it difficult to focus on the lesson when they attend a class and fail in exams due to distractions. Therefore, even though children can gain some knowledge by watching TV, they miss much more important things— the knowledge and skills which are supposed to be learned at school. Besides, it’s highly possible that children will be attracted by the images or sound on TV instead of knowledge itself. It’s more common for children to watch TV for fun and thus, they may either feel bored when they watch educational programmes or interested in something meaningless. This means that children cannot achieve the goal that parents or teachers set for them, and watching TV could prove to be a waste of time. On the flip side, the TV could more or less have a positive effect on children’s study, but it should only be regarded as an additional tool to assist children in learning, while the study at school should be valued more. Meanwhile, parents and teachers ought to strictly limit time and channels to make sure that children do benefit from it. Overall, television viewing might crowd out children’s energy of study at school or make them merely attracted by images or sound. But if it was utilised reasonably as an auxiliary tool, it still could help children broaden their knowledge out of class.