point of view

Point of view can mean the same as opinion.

• Thank you for giving us your point of view / opinion.

But from somebody’s point of view is not quite the same as in somebody’s view/opinion. It usually means ‘as seen from somebody’s position in life’ (for example as a student, a woman, a Greek or a Catholic), and is used to say how somebody is affected by what happens. Compare:

• In my opinion, war is always wrong. (= I think war …) (not From my point of view, war is always wrong.)
  He wrote about the war from the point of view of the ordinary soldier.
• In my view, it’s a pretty good school.
  You have to judge a school from the child’s point of view.
• In Professor Lucas’s opinion, everybody should work a 20-hour week.
  From the employers’ point of view, this would cause a lot of problems.