AI095 “If parents want to prepare their children to succeed in life, teaching the children self-discipline is more important than teaching them selfesteem.” Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading. “Companies are never justified in employing young children, even if the child’s family would benefit from the income.” Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading. There is no universal answer to the question what is the most important for the parents to teach their children to succeed in the life. Both self-discipline and self-esteem may influence one's life or even determine whether one will succeed or not, but closer scrutiny reveals that self-esteem plays a role more important that does self-discipline, though may not the most important among the countless ingredients helping one succeed. I will state following reasons to support my standpoint. The key reason to conclude that the self-esteem is more important than the self-discipline is that the former quality will courage one to go on his adventure when he countered formidable difficulties or competitors. As we all know, the success is not easy to obtain, it is always the case that before the gain, especially the big success, there are plenty of obstacles on the way. Without the confidence, one may give up quickly, thereby has no chance to taste the fruit of the success. Only if the one has the confidence of himself, he won't hesitate before the difficulties, therefore, will keep trying till fulfill his goal. To illustrate the merit of the self-esteem, there is a classic example: Tomas Edison tried no less than one thousand material before he got the very one to produce the light. Suppose that he was a person lacking the character of self-esteem, he might surrender when he tried the 100th material, or the 200th. Just because he believed himself will success in the research through this seemed awful method, finally, he's determination and the spirit of self-esteem led him to get the perfect metal conductor for the light. This story tell us that it is possible that there will be more successful men in the world, if all of us were taught self-esteem what makes us never suspect ourselves when frustrated by the unexpected handicaps. Admittedly, self-discipline is also important to one's success. With the self-discipline, one won’t be indulgent in playing, and spend most of the time to pursue his ambition. However, most ones having the self-discipline are lack of the confidence to conquer the difficulties, therefore, behave timidly when there is the competitor or something challenging. No matter how far has one gone, the retreat will definitely cause the failure. Therefore, the self-discipline is no more than a necessary factors of the success, and less important than the other factor, self-esteem. In the final analysis, self-esteem is more important than self-discipline for one’s success. As the argument reasoned above the self-esteem can strengthen one’s confidence before challenge, and make one keep fighting till the success. Although self-discipline is an undeniable character of the successful ones, but if it is not accompanied with self-esteem, one is more likely to fail. 写这片issue的时候很头疼
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